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
Facing up to the end of the petroleum era
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
Posted inMay 6, 1991: The bombing of the West
A new hotel on the Grand Canyon’s North Rim?
The National Park Service now wants to build a modern, two-story hotel with 100 rooms only 50 yards from the edge of the canyon. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/23.8/download-entire-issue
Posted inApril 22, 1991: Special issue: Northwest salmon at the crossroads
Why logging and salmon don’t mix
Clearcut logging allows rain to wash away the gravel salmon need for spawning. The loss of shade also can raise the temperature of the water to lethal levels. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/23.7/download-entire-issue
Posted inApril 22, 1991: Special issue: Northwest salmon at the crossroads
And now — the Last Salmon Ceremony?
The big hydroelectric dams stand as symbols of the crossroads now confronting the Pacific Northwest’s salmon and steelhead. A century ago these wild fish numbered some 16 million. Now their annual count is dropping below 1 million. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/23.7/download-entire-issue
Posted inApril 22, 1991: Special issue: Northwest salmon at the crossroads
How the basin’s salmon-killing system works
The Columbia Basin’s eight mainstem dams account for nearly all of the Northwest’s annual salmon slaughter, and could be modified. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/23.7/download-entire-issue
Posted inApril 8, 1991: Overgrazing: Feds move to end it
Why subsidize the recovery of the wolf?
Defenders of Wildlife should work to limit, not enhance, the power of the livestock interests, and push for more equitable solutions such as a mandatory insurance policy for ranchers to compensate them for depredation. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/23.6/download-entire-issue
Posted inApril 8, 1991: Overgrazing: Feds move to end it
Forest Service spends wilderness money on logging
Government Accounting Office (GAO) findings that the Forest Service spent nearly 40 percent of money allocated for wilderness in other areas — including recreation and timber — have led environmentalists and a key congressman to call for sweeping changes in the agency’s structure. Over the last four years Congress has increased appropriations for wilderness by […]
Posted inApril 8, 1991: Overgrazing: Feds move to end it
Overgrazing: Feds move to end it
The Forest Service claims parts of the Big Cimarron grazing allotment on the Uncompahgre National Forest are chronically overgrazed, and says the bulk of the area should be managed for recreation and the protection of its rivers and lakes. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/23.6/download-entire-issue
Posted inMarch 26, 1991: The nuclear wasting of the West
Geological controversy haunts Nevada waste site
Yucca Mountain may one day be home to the nation’s most deadly garbage — highly radioactive spent reactor fuel rods and other detritus of the nation’s 40-year experiment with nuclear power. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/23.5/download-entire-issue
Posted inMarch 26, 1991: The nuclear wasting of the West
An inside view of the Rocky Flats plant
When I went for the interview at Rocky Flats, after the first screening by the temporary agency, it was a bleak, gray, snowy day … Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/23.5/download-entire-issue
Posted inMarch 26, 1991: The nuclear wasting of the West
Hanford’s pollution is spreading
In 45 years of bomb production at Hanford, nuclear wastes have escaped into the environment from plant stacks, leaking tanks, ditches and deep injection wells. Contaminated groundwater is now reaching the Columbia River on the reservation’s northern and eastern perimeters. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/23.5/download-entire-issue
Posted inMarch 12, 1991: Missouri: a river basin at war
Preservation or development for Idaho’s Oregon Trail?
As most of the Oregon Trail is lost to development, preservationists and developers are wrangling over a segment of the trail in Idaho that still contains visible wagon ruts. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/23.4/download-entire-issue
Posted inMarch 12, 1991: Missouri: a river basin at war
Missouri: a river basin at war
A four-year drought has humbled the Missouri River and plunged its 10 basin states into a sour quarrel with one another and the Army Corps of Engineers, the river’s federal boss. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/23.4/download-entire-issue
Posted inMarch 12, 1991: Missouri: a river basin at war
Dakota dust: denial, delusion, dishonesty
This essay takes as its starting point the blowing dust of March 1988, a virtual dust bowl over the eastern half of the Dakotas. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/23.4/download-entire-issue
Posted inFebruary 25, 1991: Colorado enters a new water era
The perils of illegal action
The more one becomes involved in conscious law-breaking, whether nonviolent civil disobedience or monkeywrenching, the more one needs to be scrupulously deliberate about doing so. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/23.3/download-entire-issue
Posted inFebruary 25, 1991: Colorado enters a new water era
Oregon’s Enola Hill: ‘diseased forest’ or sacred site?
The Forest Service wants to log the steep, forested rise near Mount Hood. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/23.3/download-entire-issue
Posted inFebruary 25, 1991: Colorado enters a new water era
Colorado enters a new water era
The death of Denver’s Two Forks dam project has turned the state’s archetypal Western water establishment on its head. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/23.3/download-entire-issue
Posted inFebruary 11, 1991: Idaho savors its waters as region seeks more hydropower
On grizzlies, babies and a shrinking land
I got married last fall and was immediately inundated with questions concerning when my husband and I were planning on having kids. Someone even sent me a card wishing me lots and lots of little ones. The sentiment behind that wish is really what brought ISO folks and me together in mid-January to hear a […]