A eulogy of an old scourge and warning against a new one.
Charles Wilkinson crows over the corpse of the West’s traditional approach to water
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
Posted inJuly 15, 1991: Special issue: The Central Arizona Project story
Mining pressure forces last-minute BLM wilderness review
The Bureau of Land Management is reconsidering a total of 450,775 acres of potential wilderness, in four Western states, that were initially recommended for wilderness designation. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/23.13/download-entire-issue
Posted inJuly 15, 1991: Special issue: The Central Arizona Project story
A father’s view of a dam proposal
One weekend in April, I was planning to be on the Colorado River, spending some time in Horsethief and Ruby canyons. Winds and cold temperatures cancelled my plans. Instead I found myself in the office reviewing the” Application for Preliminary Permit” for the Horsethief Canyon Water Power Project. Download entire issue to view this article: […]
Posted inJuly 15, 1991: Special issue: The Central Arizona Project story
Special issue: The Central Arizona Project story
The Central Utah Project is yet another sign that the West’s and the nation’s attitude toward water is changing. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/23.13/download-entire-issue
Posted inJuly 1, 1991: The Snake's imperiled salmon: A personal call to act
People for the West fronts for the mining industry
The Pueblo, Colo.-based organization boasts more than 40 local chapters throughout the West and has raised close to a million dollars in just over a year. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/23.12/download-entire-issue
Posted inJuly 1, 1991: The Snake's imperiled salmon: A personal call to act
Park Service and Geological Survey split over geysers
Congress will decide whether the protection afforded to Yellowstone National Park’s famous geothermal wonders should be extended to features beyond the park boundary. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/23.12/download-entire-issue
Posted inJuly 1, 1991: The Snake's imperiled salmon: A personal call to act
The Snake’s imperiled salmon: A personal call to act
I want to tell you about a fish, a place named for it, and a recent weekend there that I will not forget. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/23.12/download-entire-issue
Posted inJune 17, 1991: A wilderness war: Utah's canyons cut to the bone
Montana spurns feds to hold spring grizzly hunt
Montana wildlife officials have rebuffed federal pressure to call off a special early grizzly bear hunt. Federal wildlife officials wanted it stopped in order to prevent a possible overkill this year of the threatened species. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/23.11/download-entire-issue
Posted inJune 17, 1991: A wilderness war: Utah's canyons cut to the bone
Echoes from a fire at Beaver Creek
Today I sat in a stand of lodgepole pine trees that met death during the Beaver Creek fire in Grand Teton National Park. Their charred trunks bristled the hillside like quills on the back of a porcupine huddled in self-protection. Unlike people, these trees remain standing after their deaths, sentinels in their own graveyard. Download […]
Posted inJune 17, 1991: A wilderness war: Utah's canyons cut to the bone
A wilderness war: Utah’s canyons cut to the bone
The wilderness debate is forcing rural Utahns to confront their deepest hopes and fears. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/23.11/download-entire-issue
Posted inJune 3, 1991: A fading Yellowstone 'Vision'
Yellowstone: We must allow it to change
In Yellowstone, managerial control is not love; biology and philosophy, to say nothing of politics, economics, theology and the rest, ought to cooperate to form an ethics that seeks to appreciate, rather than to manipulate. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/23.10/download-entire-issue
Posted inJune 3, 1991: A fading Yellowstone 'Vision'
Birth control for wild horses?
Faced with population numbers well over established management levels, the BLM is looking for some creative management ideas to control the burgeoning wild horse population. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/23.10/download-entire-issue
Posted inJune 3, 1991: A fading Yellowstone 'Vision'
Yellowstone: The Erotics of Place
The Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem is landscape that loves bison, bear, elk, deer, moose, coyote, wolf, rabbit, badger, marmot, squirrel, swan, crane, eagle, raven, pelican, red-tail, bufflehead, goldeneye, teal, and merganser. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/23.10/download-entire-issue
Posted inJune 3, 1991: A fading Yellowstone 'Vision'
A fading Yellowstone ‘Vision’
In 1989 a coalition of park and forest chiefs in what is now called the Greater Yellowstone ecosystem embarked on a pioneering plan to coordinate their management. But something went awry. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/23.10/download-entire-issue
Posted inMay 20, 1991: Solar power becomes a reality
A Vietnam vet tries to preserve the Blackfeet culture
Twenty years after a Viet Cong rocket left him with a concussion and flesh wounds, Ron West has become a warrior for Blackfeet spiritual leaders fighting to preserve the Badger-Two Medicine area south of Glacier National Park. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/23.9/download-entire-issue
Posted inMay 20, 1991: Solar power becomes a reality
Solar power becomes a reality
A California solar energy company that wants to generate thousands of megawatts of pollution-free electricity is finding surprising success in the sun-drenched American Southwest. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/23.9/download-entire-issue
Posted inMay 20, 1991: Solar power becomes a reality
Facing up to the end of the petroleum era
The National Energy Strategy, revealed earlier this year, is not really an energy strategy at all. It is an economic program, aimed toward the short-term benefit of the domestic oil industry and other existing energy corporations. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/23.9/download-entire-issue
Posted inMay 6, 1991: The bombing of the West
The bombing of the West
For many of the Navy and Air Force pilots who would fly deadly missions in Operation Desert Storm, their first experience with live bombs was in the Nevada desert. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/23.8/download-entire-issue
Posted inMay 6, 1991: The bombing of the West
Environmentalists differ over old-growth protection
As momentum builds for passing legislation to protect what remains of the Northwest’s ancient forests, national environmental groups are urging the region’s grassroots activists to set aside past differences and unite behind the Ancient Forest Protection Bill. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/23.8/download-entire-issue