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 […]
Sagebrush Rebellion II: Some rural counties seek to influence federal land use
Posted inFebruary 22, 1993: The continuing saga of New Mexico's Gray Ranch
Montana wolves lose their advocate
Wolf biologist, Mike Jimenez, loses his job in Ninemile Valley, Montana. To read this article, download this HCN issue in PDF format. This article appeared in the print edition of the magazine with the headline Montana wolves lose their advocate.
Posted inFebruary 10, 1992: David Love: His warnings about selenium in Wyoming aren't new
Nevada speaks with fissioned tongue
The state’s political leaders are talking in ever more militant tones in their battle to keep the nation’s high-level nuclear waste out of Yucca Mountain. Yet these same politicians are the first to cry foul when anyone suggests even a temporary halt to testing nuclear weapons in the same southern Nevada desert. Download entire issue […]
Posted inFebruary 10, 1992: David Love: His warnings about selenium in Wyoming aren't new
Coalition seeks to stop over-cutting
The new coalition includes representatives of the local logging company, La Compania de Ocho, National Audubon Society, Forest Guardians, Carson Forest Watch, The Wilderness Society and Sierra Club. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/24.2/download-entire-issue
Posted inFebruary 10, 1992: David Love: His warnings about selenium in Wyoming aren't new
David Love: His warnings about selenium in Wyoming aren’t new
… but the trouble is few want to hear that thousands of acres are poisonous to plants, cows and people. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/24.2/download-entire-issue
Posted inJanuary 27, 1992: Nuclear Waste: In 10,000 years, how will we say 'Keep Out'?
Apaches split over nuclear waste
The marriage of progress and preservation on the 460,000-acre Mescalero reservation is threatening to crack. Tribal leaders were first in the nation to agree to study temporary storage of high-level radioactive waste from power plants. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/24.1/download-entire-issue
Posted inJanuary 27, 1992: Nuclear Waste: In 10,000 years, how will we say 'Keep Out'?
Panels seek radiation warnings that will travel well through time
Thanks to federal environmental laws, the DOE must take into account the next 10 millennia when planning for the disposal of low-level radioactive waste from bomb-building. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/24.1/download-entire-issue
Posted inJanuary 27, 1992: Nuclear Waste: In 10,000 years, how will we say 'Keep Out'?
Group wants to bag the Animal Damage Control Agency
Tucson, Ariz.-based Wildlife Damage Review spreads the word about how taxpayers finance the killing of predators. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/24.1/download-entire-issue
Posted inJanuary 27, 1992: Nuclear Waste: In 10,000 years, how will we say 'Keep Out'?
1991 Index
See a list of all High Country News articles published in 1991, categorized by subject. Click link to view PDF. This article appeared in the print edition of the magazine with the headline 1991 Index.
Posted inDecember 30, 1991: Animal rights group takes aim at hunters
Where neighbor is a verb
Minutiae matters in rural South Dakota. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/23.24/download-entire-issue
Posted inDecember 30, 1991: Animal rights group takes aim at hunters
Is it cruel to fool a fish?
Although we think we are being conscientious and thoughtful in releasing that rainbow, in the eyes of some we are cruelly torturing an innocent fish for our own perverse pleasure. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/23.24/download-entire-issue
Posted inDecember 30, 1991: Animal rights group takes aim at hunters
Animal rights group takes aim at hunters
Animal-rights activist Wayne Pacelle has his sights set on hunting in the West. So far, he’s wounded or killed hunts for black bears in California and Colorado, grizzly bears and buffalo in Montana, and elk in Arizona. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/23.24/download-entire-issue
Posted inDecember 16, 1991: Are the bison coming?
Tiny snails could affect eight dams
The Bliss Rapids snail, along with about 30 other species in the Snake River, appear to be declining due to pollution and development. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/23.23/download-entire-issue
Posted inDecember 16, 1991: Are the bison coming?
Death and anarchy above Tucson
A head-on. From the skid marks it looked like the Camaro had been cutting the inside of the curve, way over the double-yellow centerline … Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/23.23/download-entire-issue
Posted inDecember 16, 1991: Are the bison coming?
Are the bison coming?
Frank and Deborah Popper see themselves as carrying a timely, well-meant warning to the Great Plains. But most Great Plains residents see the two New Jersey academics as alarmists, and their Buffalo Commons idea as malicious. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/23.23/download-entire-issue
Posted inDecember 2, 1991: The public gets a chance to revamp dams built 50 years ago
A Montana forest slashes its planned timber cut
Even after Regional Forester John W. Mumma was ousted, apparently for reigning in overcutting, the 2.1 million-acre Lolo National Forest will reduce its projected timber sales by half for the next five years. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/23.22/download-entire-issue
Posted inDecember 2, 1991: The public gets a chance to revamp dams built 50 years ago
Water fight sinks wilderness bill
How water rights language killed Colorado’s wilderness bill (S-1029). Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/23.22/download-entire-issue
Posted inDecember 2, 1991: The public gets a chance to revamp dams built 50 years ago
The public gets a chance to revamp dams built 50 years ago
Native Americans are in the best position to alter the way dams are operated as developers ask the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) to renew licenses for 170 of the nation’s oldest hydropower projects. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/23.22/download-entire-issue
Posted inNovember 18, 1991: A passive town in Utah awaits its fate
Battered Targhee seeks a new course
For years environmentalists wrote off the Targhee National Forest as a sacrifice zone, but as the Targhee re-writes its forest plan, the area is under close scrutiny. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/23.21/download-entire-issue
Posted inNovember 18, 1991: A passive town in Utah awaits its fate
New fight looms over Kaiparowits
Southern Utah’s vast and unspoiled Kaiparowits Plateau is once again at the center of a battle over large-scale coal development. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/23.21/download-entire-issue