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
Goats test notions of ‘native’ and ‘exotic’ species
Posted inOctober 22, 1990: Will 1990 bring a greener West?
Confusion marks Idaho’s toxic waste burning policy
In June, the state reversed an earlier recommendation and turned down a PCB incinerator proposed by Tiffany Metals, an Idaho Falls salvage yard. Four weeks later, the state granted a permit for a medical incinerator in American Falls. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/22.20/download-entire-issue
Posted inOctober 22, 1990: Will 1990 bring a greener West?
Will 1990 bring a greener West?
A growing grassroots concern for the environment is driving the West’s 1990 elections. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/22.20/download-entire-issue
Posted inOctober 8, 1990: Can natural gas fuel a Rocky Mountain high?
Ickes, Part II: ‘So long as I am Secretary …’
Harold L. Ickes, President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s Secretary of the Interior, once described himself to a congressional committee as being “as hard-boiled a conservationist as there is in this country.” Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/22.19/download-entire-issue
Posted inOctober 8, 1990: Can natural gas fuel a Rocky Mountain high?
Metamorphosis at the Forest Service
The Forest Service is becoming experienced in listening to messages it would not have chosen to hear a few years ago. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/22.19/download-entire-issue
Posted inOctober 8, 1990: Can natural gas fuel a Rocky Mountain high?
Games (non-Native) journalists play
Every day we meet with cultural problems, and the mark of the Indian journalist is that he or she must actively confront these problems. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/22.19/download-entire-issue
Posted inOctober 8, 1990: Can natural gas fuel a Rocky Mountain high?
Can natural gas fuel a Rocky Mountain high?
Rocky Mountain states bet on pipelines to get gas to the burgeoning California market. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/22.19/download-entire-issue
Posted inSeptember 24, 1990: The West's ailing ski industry turns to all-season mega-resorts
Raw-log export ban helps Northwest
Trees cut on state lands in the West can no longer slip past local mills onto foreign-bound ships. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/22.18/download-entire-issue
Posted inSeptember 24, 1990: The West's ailing ski industry turns to all-season mega-resorts
Ickes, Part I: Interior’s noisy reformer
If life were intended to be simple, God would not have invented Harold L. Ickes, Franklin D, Roosevelt’s spiky Secretary of the Interior, who was not one man, but several. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/22.18/download-entire-issue
Posted inSeptember 24, 1990: The West's ailing ski industry turns to all-season mega-resorts
Montana’s wilderness imbroglio: Two views on how to end it
Ken Knudson represented the Montana Wildlands Coalition in the Kootenai and Lolo Accords negotiation; Bryan Erhart represented over 800 mill workers. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/22.18/download-entire-issue
Posted inSeptember 24, 1990: The West's ailing ski industry turns to all-season mega-resorts
West’s ailing ski industry turns to all-season mega-resorts
The ski industry, once welcomed in the West, is turning into a pariah. As it gets harder to make a ski hill turn a profit, developers are pushing all-season destination resorts that threaten to overwhelm their host communities and are turning many mountain towns against the ski corporations. Download entire issue to view this article: […]
Posted inSeptember 10, 1990: Dumps 'R' Us
Forest Service sues in Colorado to keep its water
The dewatering of the national forests has been going on for a long time. But now the U.S. Forest Service is fighting for its stream channels in a Greeley, Colo., state water court, claiming roughly half the stream flows in four national forests in northeastern Colorado. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/22.17/download-entire-issue
Posted inSeptember 10, 1990: Dumps 'R' Us
Strange tales along the Powwow Highway
We are dying today in droves while liberal Americans profit in the billion-dollar-a-year New Age industry, which sells overpriced and artificial Thunderbird shields and sexy doeskin dresses to bored, rich cosmopolitans. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/22.17/download-entire-issue
Posted inSeptember 10, 1990: Dumps 'R' Us
Railroad plans garbage express
When a persistent real estate agent arranged for Alonzo and Robert Rogers to sell 1,200 acres of the southwestern South Dakota ranch, the bachelor brothers had no idea their land was part of a plan to build a massive garbage dump serving faraway cities. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/22.17/download-entire-issue
Posted inAugust 27, 1990: Waterless in Wind River?
Japan’s Daishowa mum on dam removal in Olympic park
Daishowa Paper Co. stalls effort to remove two hydroelectric dams on Washington’s Elwha River. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/22.16/download-entire-issue
Posted inAugust 27, 1990: Waterless in Wind River?
Our living desert is becoming a new Sahara
The sad fact is that trespass by cows is a constant on Western public lands. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/22.16/download-entire-issue
Posted inAugust 27, 1990: Waterless in Wind River?
Waterless in Wind River?
Midvale, Wyo., farmers worry after the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed last year that the tribes of the Wind River Reservation have rights to over 500,000 acre-feet of water. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/22.16/download-entire-issue
Posted inAugust 22, 1980: Focus on the sun
Solar center’s bright future now clouded
The Solar Energy Research Institute’s connections with the federal Department of Defense have the private-sector solar industry doubting the impact the institute will have on spreading solar technology. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/12.16/download-entire-issue
Posted inJuly 30, 1990: Revolution at Utah's grassroots
We must stop devouring the West
We are blessed with an astounding base of natural assets: clean air, good water, open land and the many sturdy folk who live here. But instead of feeding, repairing and taking care of these natural assets, we have been running them down in a way that would destroy any automobile or business in very little […]
Posted inJuly 30, 1990: Revolution at Utah's grassroots
Revolution at Utah’s grassroots: Navajos seek political power
The Navajos, like most reservation Indians, have historically been excluded from county politics by a mix of subtle and not-so-subtle barriers. But now they are creating a new political force. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/22.15/download-entire-issue