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
National forest grazing cuts are stalled by politics
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
Posted inMay 18, 1992: A small town fights a large mine
How you and a bear can survive a chance meeting
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
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