Recent headlines saying that 22 Indian tribes are meeting with the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) have brought national attention to the Council of Energy Resource Tribes, an organization that had virtually been ignored since its formation in 1975.


Non-farmers drive up agricultural land prices

The crush of new uses for agricultural land — mining, housing, and urban expansion — has steadily driven the cost of land beyond the point at which agriculture is profitable. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/9.15/download-entire-issue

The father of Rocky Mountain Park

Enos Abijah Mills, after years living primitively in the shadow of Colorado’s Long’s Peak, had a chance encounter with John Muir that apparently inspired him to work for the preservation of Colorado’s high Rockies. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/9.15/download-entire-issue

Tribes probe possibilities of their coal, uranium

Recent headlines saying that 22 Indian tribes are meeting with the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) have brought national attention to the Council of Energy Resource Tribes, an organization that had virtually been ignored since its formation in 1975. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/9.15/download-entire-issue