When meeting a black bear, friendly or otherwise, it is best simply not to move … Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/24.9/download-entire-issue
How you and a bear can survive a chance meeting
Posted inMay 4, 1992: The race for Montana's one congressional seat pits polar opposites
The race for Montana’s one congressional seat pits polar opposites
Politicians, environmentalists and business leaders agree, the 1992 congressional campaign in Montana (between Pat Williams, a Democrat, and Ron Marlenee, a Republican) is likely to result in the most important — and interesting — election in perhaps a generation. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/24.8/download-entire-issue
Posted inMay 4, 1992: The race for Montana's one congressional seat pits polar opposites
Idaho river basin denied protection
When the state Water Resources Board proposed a ban on hydroelectric development for streams in the Henry’s Fork Basin, few expected it would face rough sledding in the 1992 Idaho Legislature. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/24.8/download-entire-issue
Posted inMay 4, 1992: The race for Montana's one congressional seat pits polar opposites
Indians hope buffalo can revive tribes’ fortunes
A hundred years after the West’s wild buffalo herds were wiped out, the Native American Inter-Tribal Buffalo Cooperative is attempting to bring the great animal-back to Indian lands. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/24.8/download-entire-issue
Posted inApril 20, 1992: The government's investigative agency says, again, cows aren't good for the arid West
‘Disaster, disaster on the range,’ report says
The General Accounting Office (GAO) has repeatedly criticized the Bureau of Land Management’s handling of livestock grazing on the nation’s public lands, citing overgrazed, cattle being favored over wildlife, lack of land management planning, and grazing of excess numbers of livestock. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/24.7/download-entire-issue
Posted inApril 20, 1992: The government's investigative agency says, again, cows aren't good for the arid West
Blowing the whistle while covering your ass
Some survival tips for whistleblowers: Copy everything, take notes, know who your friends are, test the system but don’t trust your boss. And always tell your family before you fight the good fight. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/24.7/download-entire-issue
Posted inApril 20, 1992: The government's investigative agency says, again, cows aren't good for the arid West
An old-timer talks about new times
When Lloyd Todd joined the U.S. Forest Service in 1957, choices were much simpler than they are now. “At one time, we’d have said this is how much timber we’re going to cut, period,” he says. “Then there might have been an article or two in the paper, and I might have taken a cussing […]
Posted inApril 6, 1992: Las Vegas: The boom craps out ... and the city has second thoughts about water
Las Vegas: The boom craps out … and the city has second thoughts about water
Until recently, Las Vegas appeared to be thriving on its unique brand of illusion, while the rest of the country wallowed in a deepening recession. Now hard times have come to Glitter Gulch and the Strip, too, once thought immune to economic doldrums. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/24.6/download-entire-issue
Posted inApril 6, 1992: Las Vegas: The boom craps out ... and the city has second thoughts about water
Yucca Mountain is an assault on Nevada
Jon Christensen’s article, “Nevada Speaks with Fissioned Tongue” (HCN, 1/10/92), seriously misrepresents the issues surrounding the debate about the proposed high-level nuclear waste site at Yucca Mountain in southern Nevada. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/24.6/download-entire-issue
Posted inApril 6, 1992: Las Vegas: The boom craps out ... and the city has second thoughts about water
Protestors hope to bury nuclear testing
Paiute Indian Dolly Big Soldier was arrested at the Nevada Test Site, 160 miles northwest of her home on the Shivwits reservation in southwestern Utah, for protesting the underground testing of nuclear bombs Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/24.6/download-entire-issue
Posted inMarch 23, 1992: Special issue: An alternative to the bumpersticker approach to grazing
Wilderness and cattle don’t mix
The leader of the Oregon Natural Desert Association explains why participation in grazing-reform working groups by environmentalists is a waste of time, or even a sabotage of environmentalist goals. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/24.5/download-entire-issue
Posted inMarch 23, 1992: Special issue: An alternative to the bumpersticker approach to grazing
Ranching’s charismatic reformers
In Oregon, Doc and Connie Hatfield combine ecology, politics and marketing to strengthen the economics of ranching. To read this article, click the “View a PDF from the original” link below, or download the entire issue: http://www.hcn.org/issues/24.5/download-entire-issue This article appeared in the print edition of the magazine with the headline Ranching’s charismatic reformers.
Posted inMarch 23, 1992: Special issue: An alternative to the bumpersticker approach to grazing
A neighborly approach to sustainable public-land grazing
An experiment is under way in Oregon that may be an alternative to all-out war over use of the public lands. To read this article, click the “View a PDF from the original” link below, or download the entire issue: http://www.hcn.org/issues/24.5/download-entire-issue This article appeared in the print edition of the magazine with the headline A […]
Posted inMarch 23, 1992: Special issue: An alternative to the bumpersticker approach to grazing
Grizzlies lack enough room to roam
Just 44 percent of the “nuisance” grizzly bears trapped and relocated in the northern Rockies survive two years without getting into trouble again, says a wildlife biologist for the state of Montana. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/24.5/download-entire-issue
Posted inMarch 9, 1992: Salmon: Can a new plan save the fish?
Energy industry gets belated Christmas gift
Like the phoenix, synthetic fuels rise again … Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/24.4/download-entire-issue
Posted inMarch 9, 1992: Salmon: Can a new plan save the fish?
Salmon: Can a new plan save the fish?
The key question in 1992 is whether pro-fish political forces, with the aid of the Endangered Species Act, can change dam operations fast enough, and significantly enough, to save the salmon. Some 95 percent of the juvenile salmon are killed by the dams and reservoirs, but so far, the agencies charged with operating the world’s […]
Posted inMarch 9, 1992: Salmon: Can a new plan save the fish?
Are bison getting killed in Montana for no reason?
The outcome of a legal battle between a cattle company and the federal government over transmission of brucellosis from wild bison could impose dramatic changes in the use of public land in the West. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/24.4/download-entire-issue
Posted inFebruary 24, 1992: Sagebrush Rebellion II: Some rural counties seek to influence federal land use
Wilderness water takes another turn
Colorado’s wilderness bill — a controversial compromise between Sen. Hank Brown and Sen. Tim Wirth — was intended to create 641,690 acres of new wilderness. Instead, the bill has become an engine pushing on Colorado’s water developers, environmentalists and bureaucrats to redefine the state’s approach to water within and outside of wilderness areas. Download entire […]
Posted inFebruary 24, 1992: Sagebrush Rebellion II: Some rural counties seek to influence federal land use
In search of sustainability
The foresters, economists, sociologists, public land managers and foundation executives at the Defining Sustainable Forestry Workshop came surprisingly close to describing what sustainable forestry might look like. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/24.3/download-entire-issue
Posted inFebruary 24, 1992: Sagebrush Rebellion II: Some rural counties seek to influence federal land use
Sagebrush Rebellion II: Some rural counties seek to influence federal land use
The assumption underlying new county ordinances is that grazing permits are the “intangible” property of the permittee. Federal agencies, meanwhile, insist that grazing permits have always been a privilege, not a right. To read this article, click the “View a PDF from the original” link below, or download entire issue: https://www.hcn.org/wp-content/uploads/1992/02/1992_02_24_Catron.pdf This article appeared in […]