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
Raping the private forests
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
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