After nearly two years of negotiations, a large portion of the Escalante River drainage in Glen Canyon National Recreation Area has been permanently closed to grazing. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/24.15/download-entire-issue
Happy ending to Utah grazing conflict
Posted inAugust 24, 1992: Leave it to beaver
Leave it to beaver
Beavers on a ranch in Idaho have turned a previously gouged creek bottom into a wetland brimming with wildlife and produced a new pasture for the ranch’s livestock. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/24.15/download-entire-issue
Posted inAugust 10, 1992: Arizona's water disaster
Lawsuit seeks to force logging to prevent fires
Local governments in logging communities of northwestem Montana have joined a lawsuit that seeks to force tree-cutting in the Kootenai National Forest. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/24.14/download-entire-issue
Posted inAugust 10, 1992: Arizona's water disaster
Everyone feels free to tell the farmer how to farm
For every farmer there is the big question: How to farm? Every square foot of earth is different. No farmer’s experience will be exactly like any other. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/24.14/download-entire-issue
Posted inAugust 10, 1992: Arizona's water disaster
Arizona’s water disaster
The $4 billion Central Arizona Project project provides water, but few can afford to buy it. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/24.14/download-entire-issue
Posted inJuly 13, 1992: Special issue: Part 2 of The Electric Revolution
Pressure builds to reform the West’s power establishment
The region’s electric system was built on vast resources, federal subsidies and freedom from environmental regulations. Now, the industry may be forced to change its strategy — but not without a fight. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/24.13/download-entire-issue
Posted inJuly 13, 1992: Special issue: Part 2 of The Electric Revolution
PacifiCorp bets on coal, and against efficiency
One of the West’s largest utilities may be betting that the future lies with coal-fired power plants rather than efficiency and alternative fuels. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/24.13/download-entire-issue
Posted inJuly 13, 1992: Special issue: Part 2 of The Electric Revolution
Wyoming tribes lose again in court
The Wyoming Supreme Court has rejected a plea to reconsider its 3-2 ruling that restricts the Northern Arapaho and Eastern Shoshone tribes’ use of “future” water and makes the state the administrator of federal reserved-water rights. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/24.13/download-entire-issue
Posted inJuly 13, 1992: Special issue: Part 2 of The Electric Revolution
Power could come from a shared vision
These two special issues of High Country News say that we have overbuilt our electric power system by up to five times. We could shut down up to four out of five power plants, coal mines, and hydroelectric dams while providing the same services and a higher quality of life. Download entire issue to view […]
Posted inJune 29, 1992: Special Issue: Part 1 of The Electric Revolution
Can coal burn cleanly?
To help coal survive as the nation’s number one source of electricity, the federal government subsidizes a wide range of clean-coal research programs. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/24.12/download-entire-issue
Posted inJune 29, 1992: Special Issue: Part 1 of The Electric Revolution
How clean coal helped kill a utility
Rebuilding the Colorado-Ute Electric Association power plant at Nucla, Colo., was a technical success. Unfortunately, although the operation went well, the patient died a lingering and painful death. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/24.12/download-entire-issue
Posted inJune 29, 1992: Special Issue: Part 1 of The Electric Revolution
The end of the ‘official future’
Pacific Gas and Electric, a huge California utility, tries to turn on a dime, abandoning nuclear power in favor of efficiency and alternative sources of energy. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/24.12/download-entire-issue
Posted inJune 15, 1992: Tribe wins back stolen water
Tribe wins back stolen water
A century-long battle for water rights waged by the Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community in Arizona ended as Western film rarely do: The Indians won. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/24.11/download-entire-issue
Posted inJune 15, 1992: Tribe wins back stolen water
Is Yellowstone taking grizzlies’ turf?
Grizzly bears feeding on spawning trout have fueled a debate over the $48 million Fish Bridge redevelopment project proposed for the heart of Yellowstone National Park. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/24.11/download-entire-issue
Posted inJune 15, 1992: Tribe wins back stolen water
‘I lay lizard-like on a boulder, basking and sun-drying’
I’d always had this urge, possibly primeval, to live in a cave for a while. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/24.11/download-entire-issue
Posted inJune 1, 1992: National forest grazing cuts are stalled by politics
National forest grazing cuts are stalled by politics
Two Idaho and Montana studies by the Forest Service represent the first full-scale efforts by the agency to control damage caused by grazing, but substantial improvements on the range may be a long way off. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/24.10/download-entire-issue
Posted inJune 1, 1992: National forest grazing cuts are stalled by politics
Land claims and money divide Western Shoshone Tribe
A handful of Western Shoshones have declared independence from the United States at the remote northern Nevada ranch of Carrie and Mary Dann. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/24.10/download-entire-issue
Posted inJune 1, 1992: National forest grazing cuts are stalled by politics
Everett Ruess: ‘I have really lived’
Unless he returns to tell it himself, we’ll never know his fate for certain, but it appears that he began to realize that his love of wilderness, his quest for oneness with nature, had him trapped. He knew he could never go back. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/24.10/download-entire-issue
Posted inMay 18, 1992: A small town fights a large mine
A small town fights a large mine
For more than 100 years, the last thing the people of Victor, Colo., would think of doing is to say “no” to gold mining. Now they are saying “whoa.” Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/24.9/download-entire-issue
Posted inMay 18, 1992: A small town fights a large mine
Rural economies can reform or go the way of Detroit
Environmentalism is the vanguard of urban America, which is giving the rural West the choice of adapting to the larger society’s vision or of dying. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/24.9/download-entire-issue