Note: This article is a sidebar to one of this issue’s feature stories, Learning from Las Vegas, in a special issue about the Great Basin. “The Truckee River is the lifeblood of northern Nevada,” says photographer Peter Goin, an art professor at the University of Nevada, Reno. “Yet look at how we treat it. We treat […]
Reno turns back to the river
Posted inMarch 26, 1990: Is there room for everyone?
Old-growth forests fight global warming
Three Northwest forest researchers conclude that converting old-growth to young forests won’t slow down global warming. Their results may help settle one question in the Northwest’s intense debate over its remaining ancient forests. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/22.6/download-entire-issue
Posted inMarch 26, 1990: Is there room for everyone?
The decayed core at the center of rural life
A rural electrification convention symbolizes the forces that vigorous, progressive elements must overcome if the countryside is to move forward again. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/22.6/download-entire-issue
Posted inMarch 26, 1990: Is there room for everyone?
Is there room for everyone?
The tranquil snowscape of Yellowstone has become a symbol of efforts to expand commercial development in the national parks. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/22.6/download-entire-issue
Posted inMarch 12, 1990: Bucking tradition
The West’s time capsules
Livestock have obliterated almost all of the West’s original grasslands. But here and there, a few patches of native range survive. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/22.5/download-entire-issue
Posted inMarch 12, 1990: Bucking tradition
The West’s real cattle heritage: Damaged land and political paralysis
It has taken more than a century for livestock grazing on public lands in the West to reach maximum pain and minimum profit. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/22.5/download-entire-issue
Posted inMarch 12, 1990: Bucking tradition
Call 1-800-SABOTAGE
Ranchers in Nevada stand guard against vandalism from radical environmentalists. Has the confrontation hurt or helped the push for better land stewardship? Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/22.5/download-entire-issue
Posted inMarch 12, 1990: Bucking tradition
Barbarians within agriculture’s gates
Do we need a nationwide policy to fight the war against noxious weeds? Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/22.5/download-entire-issue
Posted inMarch 7, 1994: Pay as you waste, says EPA
Sacred places: The West’s new, booming extractive industry
On a crowded flight from Boise to Salt Lake City I read an essay, The Last Canyon: Notes from the Underground, which tells the story of “discovering” a canyon, a remote tributary to the San Juan River. It’s from a 1978 collection of essays, The Hidden West, by Rob Schultheis, an earnest guy from back […]
Posted inFebruary 26, 1990: Is the Forest Service changing?
The politics of Western water have changed forever
Given their dubious benefits, few dams are likely to stand up well in contests played on level fields. Both the environment and the economy will be better for the struggle. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/22.4/download-entire-issue
Posted inFebruary 26, 1990: Is the Forest Service changing?
Is the Forest Service changing?
A former timber sale planner says “it’s all talk.” To read this article, click the “View a PDF from the original” link below, or download the entire issue: http://www.hcn.org/issues/22.4/download-entire-issue This article appeared in the print edition of the magazine with the headline Is the Forest Service changing?.
Posted inFebruary 12, 1990: U.S. military plots vast land coups
Utah takes aim at the Olympics, and at Colorado ski areas
The taxpayers of Utah have decided to enter one of the most demanding and expensive international competitions — the contest to host the winter Olympic Games. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/22.3/download-entire-issue
Posted inFebruary 12, 1990: U.S. military plots vast land coups
Sheepmen told: The wolf is at the door
The gray wolf is coming back to Montana, and those who raise sheep and other livestock are going to have to learn to live with it. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/22.3/download-entire-issue
Posted inFebruary 12, 1990: U.S. military plots vast land coups
U.S. military plots vast land coups
If the U.S. military has its way, 3.5 million acres in the West — a vast playground for hikers, sportsmen, arrowhead-collectors, river rats and wildlife — would be converted into a make-believe war zone. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/22.3/download-entire-issue
Posted inJanuary 29, 1990: James McClure shakes up the Senate, and the West
You knew where James McClure stood
Even as McClure stood firm on his values, he tried to work with his adversaries, and for that reason he was effective on many issues. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/22.2/download-entire-issue
Posted inJanuary 29, 1990: James McClure shakes up the Senate, and the West
Former ranger wishes he had raised hell earlier
“What I didn’t know about then was the peculiar world of bureaucracy. It thinks even nature must bend to what bureaucrats decide is best.” Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/22.2/download-entire-issue
Posted inJanuary 29, 1990: James McClure shakes up the Senate, and the West
James McClure shakes up the Senate, and the West
The surprise announcement by Sen. James McClure that he will not seek a fourth term had an earthquake-like effect on the relatively stable structure of Idaho’s congressional politics. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/22.2/download-entire-issue This article appeared in the print edition of the magazine with the headline James McClure shakes up the Senate, […]
Posted inJanuary 29, 1990: James McClure shakes up the Senate, and the West
1989 Index
See a list of all High Country News articles published in 1989, categorized by subject. Click link to view PDF. This article appeared in the print edition of the magazine with the headline 1989 Index.
Posted inJanuary 1, 1990: The decline of the West's made-in-Washington economy continues
Colleges for Native Americans deserve more support
An exhaustive study of tribal colleges is a scathing indictment of the federal government for its failure to adequately support the nation’s 24 tribally controlled two- and four-year colleges. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/22.1/download-entire-issue
Posted inJanuary 1, 1990: The decline of the West's made-in-Washington economy continues
Edward Abbey got the FBI interested in literature
According to documents made available through Freedom of Information Act, the FBI kept track of Abbey’s writing and activities for 20 years, trying to determine whether the controversial author was a security threat to the United States. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/22.1/download-entire-issue