Geological controversy haunts Nevada waste site

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

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

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

The Pacific Northwest’s dawning power shortage is adding new impetus to build more hydroelectric dams in Idaho, while the state bills itself as ‘the whitewater capital of the world.’ Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/23.2/download-entire-issue

In the absence of any comprehensive national strategy to handle predatory animals, the Agriculture Department’s Animal Damage Control branch has emerged as the one program to determine the fate of American predators. It does this primarily by killing them. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/23.1/download-entire-issue

See a list of all High Country News articles published in 1991, categorized by subject. Click link to view PDF. This article appeared in the print edition of the magazine with the headline 1990 Index.

The Western Shoshone look homeward to Ruby Valley, Nevada. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/22.25/download-entire-issue