The U.S. Forest Service may put cows back on land that the Arizona Game and Fish Department is studying for possible reintroduction of the endangered Mexican gray wolf. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/24.22/download-entire-issue
Can wolves coexist with cows?
Posted inNovember 16, 1992: The 1992 Election: Nationally a revolution, in the West an evolution
This process is out of control
If the Spanish explorers could have foreseen the many bitter conflicts over the Colorado, speculated historian Norris Hundley, they might have named it “River of Controversy.’ Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/24.21/download-entire-issue
Posted inNovember 16, 1992: The 1992 Election: Nationally a revolution, in the West an evolution
This bird fills more niches than a cowpie has bugs
The author reflects in magpies. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/24.21/download-entire-issue
Posted inNovember 16, 1992: The 1992 Election: Nationally a revolution, in the West an evolution
A new town is proposed close to Grand Canyon rim
Canyon Forest Village, proposed for a site near the Park’s South Rim entrance, would include private housing, rental units, mobile homes, hiking and biking trails, an “experiential education center,” stores, schools and churches. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/24.21/download-entire-issue
Posted inNovember 16, 1992: The 1992 Election: Nationally a revolution, in the West an evolution
The 1992 Election: Nationally a revolution, in the West an evolution
The West has come late and gradually to the experience of cultural diversity and aggressive minorities. But the 1992 election tells us that the region is finally experiencing what it means to be part of America in the late 20th century. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/24.21/download-entire-issue
Posted inNovember 2, 1992: The nuclear age: 1945, the beginning; 1992, the beginning of the end
In Utah, pavers hit speed bump
In yet another chapter of the Sagebrush Rebellion in southeastern Utah, two rural counties are trying to a force the federal government to allow construction of the Book Cliffs Highway across some of the state’s wildest land. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/24.20/download-entire-issue
Posted inNovember 2, 1992: The nuclear age: 1945, the beginning; 1992, the beginning of the end
The West’s nuclear Mandarins have reaped what they sowed
To those of us who grew up in the 1950s reading I.F. Stone’s Weekly, with its regular exposes of the dangers of above-ground nuclear testing, the accompanying coverups and denials, and the silence of the mass media on those subjects, the end of all nuclear testing is a shock. Download entire issue to view this […]
Posted inNovember 2, 1992: The nuclear age: 1945, the beginning; 1992, the beginning of the end
The nuclear age: 1945, the beginning; 1992, the beginning of the end
The atomic age began with a big bang. The buildup to the Cold War took place in a few short years. But the struggle over its legacy and lessons for humanity have just begun. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/24.20/download-entire-issue
Posted inOctober 19, 1992: Water & Power
Eugene: A gathering of green energy
Eugene, Ore., boasts a concentration of conservationists perhaps unmatched in the rest of the country. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/24.19/download-entire-issue
Posted inOctober 19, 1992: Water & Power
A remembrance of William Penn Mott
When I heard that former National Park Service Director William Penn Molt died last month, my first thought was, “At least he lived long enough to see a wolf in Yellowstone.” Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/24.19/download-entire-issue
Posted inOctober 19, 1992: Water & Power
Water: Fear of Supreme Court leads tribes to accept an adverse decision
A decision by the Wind River Indian Reservation tribes not to appeal an adverse Wyoming Supreme Court water decision in June signals — at least for the moment — an end to litigation launched nearly 16 years ago by the state of Wyoming. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/24.19/download-entire-issue
Posted inOctober 5, 1992: Western voters face clear choices
Miners stake out a golf course in Idaho
Members of the Idaho Conservation League pounded a wooden stake into the grass of a posh golf course here to prove that even Sun Valley resorts are vulnerable to mineral exploration under the nation’s old mining law. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/24.18/download-entire-issue
Posted inOctober 5, 1992: Western voters face clear choices
Western voters face clear choices
The 1992 election will redraw the West’s political map, but the new shape is almost impossible to predict. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/24.18/download-entire-issue
Posted inSeptember 21, 1992: Battle for the Bones
Radioactive dollars draw tribes
The U.S. Department of Energy continues to dangle the carrot of nuclear waste storage, along with money to study the idea, before the hungry eyes of Indian tribes and rural counties in the West. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/24.17/download-entire-issue
Posted inSeptember 21, 1992: Battle for the Bones
Indian land claims deserve our support
The presence of the 24,000-acre Pueblo of Sandia prevents the city of Albuquerque from sprawling into the nearby foothills to the south. Nevertheless, the environmental community in northern new Mexico is fighting the tribe’s attempt to reclaim its land from the U.S. Forest Service. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/24.17/download-entire-issue
Posted inSeptember 21, 1992: Battle for the Bones
Battle for the Bones
Today, across the West, scientists, rockhounds and those who collect for profit are battling over the bones of the 100-million-year-old wildlife of the Mesozoic. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/24.17/download-entire-issue
Posted inSeptember 7, 1992: Developer builds in a wilderness
Yellowstone forces to shoot rogue tourists after relocation fails
National Park Service officials today confirmed reports of the shooting of two tourists in Yellowstone Park early this season. The shootings were authorized under a newly implemented policy to protect bears. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/24.16/download-entire-issue
Posted inSeptember 7, 1992: Developer builds in a wilderness
Should the ‘Frank’ be one forest?
An influential congressman’s proposal to create the nation’s first all-wilderness national forest in central Idaho has the Forest Service scrambling. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/24.16/download-entire-issue
Posted inSeptember 7, 1992: Developer builds in a wilderness
Developer builds in a wilderness
Pulling his horse up short, U.S. Forest Service District Ranger Steve Posey turns to watch a helicopter fly overhead with another load of concrete and building materials dangling from its belly … Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/24.16/download-entire-issue
Posted inAugust 24, 1992: Leave it to beaver
Let’s stop dirt-bike noise and ‘the-end-is-here’ noise
“Wise-users” may not have much influence, but they should give environmentalists pause to reconsider their long-run strategies. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/24.15/download-entire-issue