The nuclear industry is betting nearly a million dollars that Nevadans can learn to love a nuclear waste dump. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/23.20/download-entire-issue
Carrot-and-stick tactics are wearing down Nevada
Posted inNovember 4, 1991: Mining law is no longer a sacred cow
Mining law is no longer a sacred cow
Congress could consider comprehensive reforms to the 1872 Mining Law for the first time since the Mineral Leasing Act of 1920. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/23.20/download-entire-issue
Posted inOctober 21, 1991: Sting uncovers eagle-killers
Four scientists analyze ancient forests for a congressional committee
A new report looks at ecosystems and dependent species in the Pacific Northwest, including loggers. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/23.19/download-entire-issue
Posted inOctober 21, 1991: Sting uncovers eagle-killers
Eco-grazing: Shepherd follows his flock, and the seasons
Sheepman Sam Robinson says sheep have not only failed to harm the mountains near Vail, Colo., where he has grazed them for the last 11 summers, they’ve also done the ecosystem some good. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/23.19/download-entire-issue
Posted inOctober 21, 1991: Sting uncovers eagle-killers
Some ranchers keep an old tradition alive
Working undercover, agents bought an array of illegal poisons, learned how to lace carcasses with them, and visited ranches where deadly baits were left for predators. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/23.19/download-entire-issue
Posted inOctober 7, 1991: Two say politics rules their agencies
Experts learn how man used to stick it to mammoths
Before Bob Perkins of Bozeman, Mont., applied beer, engineering and thought to the problem, archaeologists really didn’t know how early hunters used the atlatl, or throwing stick. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/23.18/download-entire-issue
Posted inOctober 7, 1991: Two say politics rules their agencies
Is Babbitt just funny, or is he also shrewd?
Today, Babbitt said, the main threat to the West is not aridity, but dam builders. Each new water development destroys another chunk of the West, said the man who fought for the Central Arizona Project while Arizona’s governor. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/23.18/download-entire-issue
Posted inOctober 7, 1991: Two say politics rules their agencies
Two say politics rules their agencies
John Mumma came alone to a packed subcommittee hearing Sept. 24 to denounce the agency that — for three decades — he put above family and friends … Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/23.18/download-entire-issue
Posted inSeptember 23, 1991: How a Montana reporter wrote what he saw ... and lost his job
Forest Service tries to force out top official
Environmentalists in Montana and Idaho say hard-liners in Washington, D.C., forced out a reform-minded manager John Mumma, the top Forest Service official in the Northern Rockies. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/23.17/download-entire-issue
Posted inSeptember 23, 1991: How a Montana reporter wrote what he saw ... and lost his job
Foes try to swamp wetlands protection
Environmentalists are calling a new Bush administration proposal the undoing of wetlands protection in the West. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/23.17/download-entire-issue
Posted inSeptember 23, 1991: How a Montana reporter wrote what he saw ... and lost his job
How a Montana reporter wrote what he saw … and lost his job
Missoulian reporter Richard Manning told how the logging business in Montana had taken a brutal turn that would punish the land, the local economy, and the small-time loggers and mills. (To read the full text, click on the “View a PDF from the original” link below, or download a PDF of the entire issue: http://www.hcn.org/issues/23.17/download-entire-issue.) This […]
Posted inSeptember 9, 1991: High noon in Nevada
Rancher says fee increase is needed, overdue
“Most reports I’ve seen concerning the present feverish discussion of raising the grazing leases on public simply do not reflect a true picture.” Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/23.16/download-entire-issue
Posted inSeptember 9, 1991: High noon in Nevada
Grizzlies may be laying low in Colorado
Spurred by a reported sighting of a grizzly sow and three cubs last fall, a group of volunteers from four Western states has begun systematically combing the San Juan Mountains, hoping to prove the bears still survive in Colorado. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/23.16/download-entire-issue
Posted inSeptember 9, 1991: High noon in Nevada
High noon in Nevada
As a full moon slipped behind the rugged peaks of the Toquima Range, the first light of dawn illuminated a meadow where uniformed Forest Service rangers were saddling horses. Their mission was to round up unauthorized cattle on the Toiyabe National Forest in remote central Nevada. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/23.16/download-entire-issue
Posted inAugust 26, 1991: Government tames its wild, destructive dam
Washington shows little fear of wolves
Washington’s Gov. Booth Gardner has issued a proclamation supporting the reintroduction of wolves to Olympic National Park. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/23.15/download-entire-issue
Posted inAugust 26, 1991: Government tames its wild, destructive dam
Politics can’t save endangered species
We proudly say that ours is a government of laws, not of men. But there are times when we expect too much of laws and not enough of women and men. This is the case with the failure of the Endangered Species Act. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/23.15/download-entire-issue
Posted inAugust 26, 1991: Government tames its wild, destructive dam
Government tames its wild, destructive dam
Early this month Interior Secretary Manuel Lujan issued a decree to alter the operation of a key faucet on the Colorado River — Glen Canyon Dam. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/23.15/download-entire-issue
Posted inAugust 12, 1991: West's grand old water doctrine dies
Did fish and game’s ark preserve the ferrets’ gene pool?
The success of the captive breeding program at the Wyoming Game and Fish Department’s Sybille facility marks the first time that interactions with humans have benefited black-footed ferrets. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/23.14/download-entire-issue
Posted inAugust 12, 1991: West's grand old water doctrine dies
Charles Wilkinson crows over the corpse of the West’s traditional approach to water
A eulogy of an old scourge and warning against a new one.
Posted inAugust 12, 1991: West's grand old water doctrine dies
West’s grand old water doctrine dies
As has been so widely reported, Prior Appropriation passed away in January of 1991 at age 143. Prior was a grand man and led a grand life. By any standard he was one of the most influential people in the history of the American West. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/23.14/download-entire-issue