In the upper reaches of North America’s alpine terrain, the whitebark pine has lived for centuries, with many trees surviving for as long as 800 years. But today the species is on a serious decline, and some scientists believe the trees are waving a red flag at us. Download entire issue to view this article: […]
The sudden demise of the whitebark pine
Posted inJanuary 28, 1991: Coyote slaughter: A federal killing machine rolls on
Nevada Test Site protesters hear it in Kazakh
When 2,500 anti-nuclear protesters came here to vex the Nevada Test Site early in January, probably the last thing they expected was a lecture on democracy from their Soviet counterparts in the peace movement. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/23.1/download-entire-issue
Posted inDecember 31, 1990: The land no one wanted
How a gold mining company keeps expanding in Montana
Zortman Mining Co., a wholly-owned subsidiary of Pegasus Gold Inc., recently proposed and won approval of a major expansion at its mine in the Little Rocky Mountains. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/22.25/download-entire-issue
Posted inDecember 31, 1990: The land no one wanted
Montana bison hunts presage a range war
Montana’s largest hunting organization has joined animal-rights activists and conservationists in condemning the state’s hunt on bison leaving Yellowstone National Park this winter. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/22.25/download-entire-issue
Posted inDecember 31, 1990: The land no one wanted
The land no one wanted
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
Posted inDecember 31, 1990: The land no one wanted
‘Son of Sagebrush Rebellion’ is now playing in Nevada
Widespread reports of the resurrection of the Sagebrush Rebellion are greatly exaggerated. So says a founder of the movement, Nevada rancher and state senator Dean Rhoads. But read on. To read this article, click the “View a PDF from the original” link below. This article appeared in the print edition of the magazine with the […]
Posted inDecember 17, 1990: Animas-La Plata: still flawed
Timber cuts raised in northern Rockies
Supervisors of many national forests in the northern Rockies have been ordered to cut more timber than they recommended. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/22.24/download-entire-issue
Posted inDecember 17, 1990: Animas-La Plata: still flawed
How to remedy overgrazing
This reader, for one, does not agree with HCN’s analysis of why overgrazing has occurred and the proper course for resolving its tragic environmental legacy. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/22.24/download-entire-issue
Posted inDecember 17, 1990: Animas-La Plata: still flawed
Animas-La Plata: still flawed
The $590 million Animas-La Plata water project Congress reauthorized in 1988 continues to generate controversy in Colorado. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/22.24/download-entire-issue
Posted inDecember 3, 1990: A dead end for the grizzly?
Gold and grizzlies: a bad combination
In the mountains north of Cooke City and in other national forests surrounding Montana’s Absaroka- Beartooth Wilderness, important grizzly hear habitat is being threatened by a “neo-gold rush” — the recent explosion of hard rock mining on public lands. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/22.23/download-entire-issue
Posted inDecember 3, 1990: A dead end for the grizzly?
Nevada’s rural counties debate how to keep their water
Central Nevada’s rural “cow counties” are girding for a protracted water war with Las Vegas. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/22.23/download-entire-issue
Posted inDecember 3, 1990: A dead end for the grizzly?
Mules dance a backwoods ballet
Cal Samsel, based in Huson, Mont., runs a nine-mule team, delivering supplies to places in national forests in Idaho, Montana and the Dakotas where trucks can’t drive and helicopters can’t land. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/22.23/download-entire-issue
Posted inDecember 3, 1990: A dead end for the grizzly?
A dead end for the grizzly?
The question is whether the grizzly can take recovery on paper and turn it into recovery in the wild. The answer, it now appears, is not entirely up to the bear. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/22.23/download-entire-issue
Posted inNovember 19, 1990: 'You don't know what you've got till it's gone ...'
Why the timber war is so bitter
A way of life in Oregon is disappearing. The agony involves the death of a vision that is now more a myth than reality. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/22.22/download-entire-issue
Posted inNovember 19, 1990: 'You don't know what you've got till it's gone ...'
Raping the private forests
Profitable export markets and a cut-and-run mentality are leveling the Northwest’s vast privately owned forests. This assault on the sustained-yield principle will drastically worsen an already critical future log shortage. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/22.22/download-entire-issue
Posted inNovember 19, 1990: 'You don't know what you've got till it's gone ...'
An ancient-forest primer
Timber jobs in the Northwest began to disappear long before the spotted owl became an issue. A forest economist explains the basics of the ancient forest controversy and why the economic challenge to the region extends far beyond direct job losses. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/22.22/download-entire-issue
Posted inNovember 5, 1990: The game is changing in the wild West
Tax breaks and ecology clash in Wyoming’s Red Desert
Efforts by an oil company to initiate a coal-bed methane project in Wyoming’s ecologically fragile Red Desert have run into a wall of opposition from federal and state agencies as well as citizens. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/22.21/download-entire-issue
Posted inNovember 5, 1990: The game is changing in the wild West
Is Peabody Coal’s slurry sucking the Hopis dry?
Hundreds of Hopis across the reservation say their water is disappearing because of the Black Mesa Mine. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/22.21/download-entire-issue
Posted inNovember 5, 1990: The game is changing in the wild West
The game is changing in the wild West
Economic changes and environmental concerns are beginning to force state game and fish departments to accept the more ambitious mission of preserving biological diversity. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/22.21/download-entire-issue
Posted inOctober 22, 1990: Will 1990 bring a greener West?
Goats test notions of ‘native’ and ‘exotic’ species
A new invasion of mountain goats — and a plan to shoot them — is forcing Yellowstone resource managers to re-open the old debate over maintaining native and exotic species in America’s oldest wildlife sanctuary. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/22.20/download-entire-issue