Those of us who are still here — the survivors in the wake of the Bust — share a bond we may not realize: We have paid a price to be able to remain. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/21.21/download-entire-issue
Wyoming isn’t California or Detroit, and thank heaven
Posted inNovember 6, 1989: Money comes calling in a remote poor valley
Money comes calling in a remote, poor valley
Colorado’s sparsely populated and remote San Luis Valley is without strong ties to either Denver’s urbanized Front Range or to the state’s rural Western Slope. But that may be ending. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/21.21/download-entire-issue
Posted inNovember 6, 1989: Money comes calling in a remote poor valley
A land-poor sheep co-op trespasses in search of grass
A 50-member Hispanic cooperative hopes that a state task force will come up with a plan to let the group’s sheep graze on public land. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/21.21/download-entire-issue
Posted inOctober 23, 1989: In Hells Canyon's: timber cutting, jet boats and general neglect
Oldtime cowboy ballads
Cowboy ballads such as the plaintive tale about Little Joe the Wrangler stir memories for many who’ve spent a half century or more in the West. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/21.20/download-entire-issue
Posted inOctober 23, 1989: In Hells Canyon's: timber cutting, jet boats and general neglect
Grass-eating tanks are fought by ranchers in Montana
Montana’s National Guard tank brigade wants to train in a 1,500-square-miles part of the state. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/21.20/download-entire-issue
Posted inOctober 23, 1989: In Hells Canyon's: timber cutting, jet boats and general neglect
Hells Canyon’s problems: timber cutting, jet boats and general neglect
If scenery, wildlife and pure spectacle mean anything, Hells Canyon and its environs will someday be recognized as a national treasure. But today it is only another controversial wild area and even the controversy is local, rather than national. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/21.20/download-entire-issue
Posted inOctober 9, 1989: WIPP is dazed, but not dead
A flagship forest in Wyoming shifts away from timber
In the Bridger-Teton National Forest, timber is losing and wildlife and recreation may be winning. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/21.19/download-entire-issue
Posted inOctober 9, 1989: WIPP is dazed, but not dead
Must the West’s air become an opaque shroud?
Most of the region’s needs, including protection of its scenic grandeur from regional haze, acid pollution damage to high country lakes and streams, and urban carbon monoxide and particulate pollution, draw little attention in Washington. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/21.19/download-entire-issue
Posted inOctober 9, 1989: WIPP is dazed, but not dead
WIPP is dazed, but not dead
The fight over the federal Department of Energy’s Waste Isolation Pilot Plant in New Mexico is in a stalemate. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/21.19/download-entire-issue
Posted inSeptember 25, 1989: Special issue: High Country News is 20
The fatal accident: An Indian, a coyote and readers come to the rescue
“I saw God when I worked for High Country News, and it surprises me that I have never been mentioned in the voluminous literature on the subject.” Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/21.18/download-entire-issue
Posted inSeptember 25, 1989: Special issue: High Country News is 20
Tom Bell: The quiet revolutionary
In 1970, High Country News was born of Tom Bell’s passion. For five years its pages thundered with his outrage at ranchers, politicians and corporations that threatened Wyoming’s water, wild lands and animals. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/21.18/download-entire-issue
Posted inSeptember 25, 1989: Special issue: High Country News is 20
Saga of a High Country Newsman
The effort to get the word out — about wilderness, about archaic mining laws, about illegal shooting of golden eagles, and so many more issues besides — would cost Bell his ranch, many of his friends, and, very nearly, his sanity. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/21.18/download-entire-issue
Posted inSeptember 25, 1989: Special issue: High Country News is 20
A tough weed takes root in the devastated West
The 20-year-long history of High Country News is romantic because it is tragic. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/21.18/download-entire-issue
Posted inSeptember 11, 1989: Two Forks dam: EPA reaffirms its veto intent
Biologists give up on foster parenting of whoopers
In June, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and its Canadian counterpart called for an end to the 14-year-old, $1.5 million “cross-fostering project.” Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/21.17/download-entire-issue
Posted inSeptember 11, 1989: Two Forks dam: EPA reaffirms its veto intent
Two Forks dam: EPA reaffirms its veto intent
The Environmental Protection Agency has pushed the proposed Two Forks dam one step closer to oblivion. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/21.17/download-entire-issue
Posted inSeptember 11, 1989: Two Forks dam: EPA reaffirms its veto intent
Our first wilderness: The Gila Turns 65
In 1924, quietly and with little fanfare, the U.S. Forest Service created the first federal wilderness reserve: the Gila Wilderness of New Mexico. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/21.17/download-entire-issue
Posted inSeptember 11, 1989: Two Forks dam: EPA reaffirms its veto intent
Federal agents killed about 250,000 predators in 1987
For more than 60 years, very little has changed inside the federal Animal Damage Control division of the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/21.17/download-entire-issue
Posted inAugust 28, 1989: Still wild at 25
A tough band tries to survive in Idaho
Transplanted woodland caribou stick it out in the Selkirk Mountains. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/21.16/download-entire-issue
Posted inAugust 28, 1989: Still wild at 25
Public lands policy is an intellectual wilderness
Once, when America was young, we knew why we had public lands. Now that America is mature, few of us even know we have them. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/21.16/download-entire-issue
Posted inAugust 28, 1989: Still wild at 25
Still wild at 25
Canyonlands National Park remains primitive, with more dirt roads than paved. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/21.16/download-entire-issue