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
Edward Abbey got the FBI interested in literature
Posted inJanuary 1, 1990: The decline of the West's made-in-Washington economy continues
Dig shows wolves in Yellowstone area
A paleontologist has unearthed evidence suggesting wolves existed in Yellowstone National Park for hundreds of years, rebutting critics of restoring wolves who say the area was never home to the animals. 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
The decline of the West’s made-in-Washington economy continues
What sense are we to make of the inland West’s last 10 years? And what possible futures can we imagine for the 1990s and beyond, based on our interpretation of the 1980s? Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/22.1/download-entire-issue
Posted inDecember 18, 1989: Poachers: Driving wild things to extinction
Tribe undertakes a huge reclamation job
In 1986, Anaconda Minerals, a division of Atlantic Richfield Co., signed over to the Laguna Pueblo $43.6 million and the responsibility for reclaiming the Jackpile-Paguate uranium mines. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/21.24/download-entire-issue
Posted inDecember 18, 1989: Poachers: Driving wild things to extinction
Oil exploration foes hope to lock up the Bridger-Teton
Critics charge that planners created a giant hole in the protection of the forest: Almost all its non-wilderness lands will be open to potential oil and gas development. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/21.24/download-entire-issue
Posted inDecember 18, 1989: Poachers: Driving wild things to extinction
Poachers: Driving wild things to extinction
As habitat dwindles around the world, the Rocky Mountain West has become a stronghold for commercial poachers and illegal hunters seeking the last concentrations of trophy animals. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/21.24/download-entire-issue
Posted inDecember 18, 1989: Poachers: Driving wild things to extinction
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Posted inDecember 4, 1989: The West's fouled waters, Part II: The new reclamation
The Grand Canyon is just another turbine
The Colorado River through the Grand Canyon rises and falls in lockstep with the West’s demand for electric power. Now environmentalists are asking federal power authorities to let the river off its very short leash. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/21.23/download-entire-issue
Posted inDecember 4, 1989: The West's fouled waters, Part II: The new reclamation
Making a difference on the Clark Fork
The Clark Fork Coalition has combined individuals and groups from Idaho, Montana and Washington in pursuit of one goal: cleaning up the Clark Fork River Basin. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/21.23/download-entire-issue
Posted inDecember 4, 1989: The West's fouled waters, Part II: The new reclamation
Idaho points the way to stream quality
For a variety of reasons, Idaho is the first Western state to seriously attempt to control nonpoint source water pollution. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/21.23/download-entire-issue
Posted inDecember 4, 1989: The West's fouled waters, Part II: The new reclamation
Bringing back the range
In Oregon, ranchers, academics and environmentalists are managing watersheds of small creeks with chainsaws, fire and cattle to bring those creeks back to life and save an endangered trout. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/21.23/download-entire-issue
Posted inDecember 4, 1989: The West's fouled waters, Part II: The new reclamation
Water enters its age of reform
The drastic decline of the West’s natural resource economy and the failings of conventional water development have created a climate for change. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/21.23/download-entire-issue
Posted inNovember 20, 1989: The West's fouled waters, Part I: Billions for quantity, but not a penny for quality
Subterranean toxics threaten city
Southwestern cities are famous for drawing down their aquifers. But Albuquerque, New Mexico, may exhaust its aquifer while still leaving it in the ground. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/21.22/download-entire-issue
Posted inNovember 20, 1989: The West's fouled waters, Part I: Billions for quantity, but not a penny for quality
Drained rivers rouse Montana
During the droughty summer of 1988, irrigators sucked many Montana streams dry. The backlash could re-order the way the state manages water. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/21.22/download-entire-issue
Posted inNovember 20, 1989: The West's fouled waters, Part I: Billions for quantity, but not a penny for quality
The West’s right to pollute shall never be denied
The West’s refusal to confront the issue of water quality will haunt the region. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/21.22/download-entire-issue
Posted inNovember 20, 1989: The West's fouled waters, Part I: Billions for quantity, but not a penny for quality
Getting off on the wrong foot
The Newlands project in Nevada has become a diabolical machine whose main products are poisoned and deformed birds. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/21.22/download-entire-issue
Posted inNovember 20, 1989: The West's fouled waters, Part I: Billions for quantity, but not a penny for quality
Bleeding from a million wounds
In the case of Colorado’s Arkansas River, it’s more accurate to talk of a pollution-shed than a watershed. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/21.22/download-entire-issue
Posted inNovember 6, 1989: Money comes calling in a remote poor valley
Wyoming isn’t California or Detroit, and thank heaven
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
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