Prodded by stinging internal audits” and the likelihood that Congress will pass a sweeping reform bill in 1993, Bureau of Land Management officials are pushing a new grazing fee policy they hope will resolve the controversy over use of public lands by livestock. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/24.24/download-entire-issue
BLM may adopt grazing incentive plan
Posted inDecember 28, 1992: Audubon's 'ranch' ungrazed, but used
Audubon’s ‘ranch’ ungrazed, but used
It’s hard to find prime grassland where you don’t see signs of grazing. This is what makes the National Audubon Society’s Appleton-Whittell Research Ranch near Elgin, Ariz., so valuable. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/24.24/download-entire-issue
Posted inDecember 14, 1992: Wilderness bills: What went wrong ... and is it time for a new approach?
An Idaho forest is told: Log
Idaho’s Clearwater National Forest has gone through three supervisors in the last four years as the debate over timber sales causes rifts in Montana and Idaho communities. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/24.23/download-entire-issue
Posted inDecember 14, 1992: Wilderness bills: What went wrong ... and is it time for a new approach?
Hopi-Navajo dispute enters new phase
In a bold move to resolve the bitter land dispute between the Hopi and Navajo tribes, the United States government is attempting to award the Native Americans about 500,000 acres surrounding Flagstaff. Download entire issue to view this article: https://www.hcn.org/issues/24.23/download-entire-issue
Posted inDecember 14, 1992: Wilderness bills: What went wrong ... and is it time for a new approach?
Tactics, vision split Montana environmentalists
Last month the House of Representatives passed a 1.48 million-acre wilderness bill for Montana that brought cheers from cheers from some conservation groups and objections from others. Download entire issue to view this article: https://www.hcn.org/issues/24.23/download-entire-issue
Posted inNovember 30, 1992: Pressure builds to change remote park
Pressure builds to change remote park
Chaco Canyon is a battleground, with tourists, environmentalists, business interests and Navajos jousting over whether to build a paved road to a park now served only by dirt roads. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/24.22/download-entire-issue
Posted inNovember 30, 1992: Pressure builds to change remote park
Is BLM running down a rare species?
On the wet meadows of western Colorado’s Chance Gulch, a rare game bird’s dance floor may soon be too hot to trot. These sage-covered hills and grassy draws support the last stable breeding population of the Gunnison sage grouse. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/24.22/download-entire-issue
Posted inNovember 30, 1992: Pressure builds to change remote park
Glen Canyon law may draw foes together
Two days after Bill Clinton’s election, an unlikely group met in Farmington, N.M., to talk about radically changing how decisions are made in the West. The conspirators were long-time enemies who came together to see if they could cooperate on one of the region’s most contentious battles: the operation of Glen Canyon Dam. Download entire […]
Posted inNovember 30, 1992: Pressure builds to change remote park
Can wolves coexist with cows?
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
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