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
The Snake’s imperiled salmon: A personal call to act
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
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