An array of changes are urgently needed to ensure that the Forest Service is better prepared, that it is more adaptable to variable and unusual conditions, and that large sums of money are not squandered when fighting wildfire. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/22.14/download-entire-issue
Present policy burns trees and money
Posted inJuly 16, 1990: Wolves make a comeback in Montana
Bush team quick-kicks the spotted owl issue to Congress
Federal officials recently announced plans to dilute the Endangered Species Act and continue logging the owl’s habitat. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/22.14/download-entire-issue
Posted inJuly 16, 1990: Wolves make a comeback in Montana
Wolves make a comeback in Montana
While politicians, scientists and bureaucrats argue over reintroduction of the wolf to the western United States, the animals have moved south into Montana to occupy long-vacant habitat. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/22.14/download-entire-issue
Posted inJuly 2, 1990: Sagebrush Rebels try to call the shots in Nevada
Sitting out the Greed Decade in Wyoming
The workers who came to Wyoming in the 1970s to make unmentionable riches throwing chain on oil rigs are now working at minimum wage “service” jobs in the toadying tourism industry. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/22.13/download-entire-issue
Posted inJuly 2, 1990: Sagebrush Rebels try to call the shots in Nevada
Union and Montana environmentalists reach agreement on what should be wilderness
As a result of four months of negotiations between unionized lumber mill workers and a coalition of conservationists, separate accords have emerged drawing wilderness boundaries for two of the state’s 10 national forests. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/22.13/download-entire-issue
Posted inJuly 2, 1990: Sagebrush Rebels try to call the shots in Nevada
Sagebrush Rebels try to call the shots in Nevada
A corner of Nevada is the last stronghold of the Sagebrush Rebels — the group that sought to transfer public land into private hands in the late 1970s and early 1980s. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/22.13/download-entire-issue
Posted inJune 18, 1990: Uranium has decimated Navajo miners
Toxics from Canada pile up in U.S. reservoir
Lake Roosevelt was largely unnoticed until 1986, when the Washington Department of Ecology first studied heavy metals contamination in the lake. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/22.12/download-entire-issue
Posted inJune 18, 1990: Uranium has decimated Navajo miners
Yvon Chouinard: A mutinous captain of industry
“I never wanted to be a businessman,” says the owner of Patagonia clothing and gear company, “because I thought businessmen were real greaseballs. In fact I still do.” Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/22.12/download-entire-issue
Posted inJune 18, 1990: Uranium has decimated Navajo miners
Uranium has decimated Navajo miners
In a Navajo community of 1,000 just west of the New Mexico state line, many families are trying to cope with the loss of loved ones and the sight of numerous others slowly dying from lung cancer. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/22.12/download-entire-issue
Posted inJune 13, 1994: A doomed species?
Gold mines are sucking aquifers dry
ELKO, Nev. – At the Canadian-owned Barrick Goldstrike mine in northeastern Nevada, 30 giant pumps draw 68,000 gallons of water a minute to the surface, 24 hours a day. The pumps have lowered the water table under the open pit mine 1,200 feet. This dewatering keeps the pit bottom, which is now some 800 feet […]
Posted inJune 9, 1997: Chaos comes to Costilla County
Two tales of a single county
Dear HCN, In your recent article (“Beauty and the Beast,” HCN, 4/14/97), Paul Larmer painted a rather bleak picture of the Kane County, Utah, economy. That negative economic portrait was part of an effort to explain why it was “no wonder everyone was hopping mad when the president took that hope (of the Andalex coal […]
Posted inJune 4, 1990: The stake in the West's heart
A new gold rush hits the West
The new American gold rush is after a different kind of deposit than the veins, nuggets and flakes which tantalized the imagination of the forty-niners. These days the hunt is for low-grade, ore bodies with microscopic gold. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/22.11/download-entire-issue
Posted inJune 4, 1990: The stake in the West's heart
A glossary of mining terms
Definitions of “reclamation,” “bonding,” and “sensitive areas.” Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/22.11/download-entire-issue
Posted inJune 4, 1990: The stake in the West's heart
A tenacious law may lose its grip
The fight over mining in the West may tum out to be one of the bloodiest environmental battles of the 20th century. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/22.11/download-entire-issue
Posted inJune 4, 1990: The stake in the West's heart
A primer on the mining law
Development of a mine under the 1872 Mining Law is radically different from development of any other public resource. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/22.11/download-entire-issue
Posted inMay 21, 1990: Will Las Vegas drain rural Nevada?
North Dakota: a Garrison junkie
The Garrison project may be a greater disaster than the Dust Bowl. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/22.10/download-entire-issue
Posted inMay 21, 1990: Will Las Vegas drain rural Nevada?
Dying Nevada town bets its last bucks on a speculative power plant
In Wells, Nevada, local residents would gladly trade the fresh air for jobs. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/22.10/download-entire-issue
Posted inMay 21, 1990: Will Las Vegas drain rural Nevada?
Will Las Vegas drain rural Nevada?
The city’s boom could come to a screeching halt in as little as four years unless Las Vegas gets more water. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/22.10/download-entire-issue
Posted inMay 7, 1990: Readers react: A sequel to the special issue on grazing
Ranchers’ hold on agency revealed
When his Forest Service superiors told him he had so angered the ranchers he was working with that he should apply for a transfer, District Ranger Don Oman refused. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/22.9/download-entire-issue
Posted inMay 7, 1990: Readers react: A sequel to the special issue on grazing
Ex-BLMer says industry prevents resource management
“I believe proper grazing management can allow recovery and still maintain the land. But before grazing can be sustainable, the BLM must be reformed.” Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/22.9/download-entire-issue