Conservationists haven’t yet figured out how to blow the whistle on McClure without also seeming to be attacking Andrus. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/21.13/download-entire-issue
Idaho wilderness issue is tied in knots
Posted inJuly 3, 1989: Tumbleweeds triumphant
Grazing permits are valuable: You can bank on it
With all the fuss made about livestock grazing on public lands in the West, it is surprising to learn that they account for only 2 percent of U.S. livestock grazing. But to the rancher who depends on Western rangelands for pasture, it’s a make or break situation. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/21.13/download-entire-issue
Posted inJuly 3, 1989: Tumbleweeds triumphant
Tumbleweeds triumphant
How the Russians conquered the West.
Posted inJune 19, 1989: FBI changes four with attack on power line
Ecotage isn’t a solution, it’s part of the problem
The time for an ambiguous attitude toward ecotage passed with the announcement of the arrests in Arizona and the allegations of a plan to attack the Rocky Flats nuclear arsenal. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/21.12/download-entire-issue
Posted inJune 19, 1989: FBI changes four with attack on power line
Will the Mexican gray wolf repopulate its former range?
The Desert Museum’s captive breeding program may be the last hope for the Mexican gray wolf. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/21.12/download-entire-issue
Posted inJune 19, 1989: FBI changes four with attack on power line
FBI changes four with attack on power line
On May 30, a flare broke the darkness of an Arizona desert evening, a signal for some 30 FBI agents and a helicopter to move in to arrest two men and a woman authorities claim were attempting to fell a tower that carries high-voltage lines to a water pump for the Central Arizona Project, a […]
Posted inJune 5, 1989: Forester challenges his agency to a discussion
The Gray Ranch: an ecological survivor
The Gray Ranch stretches north from the Mexican border in the far west corner of the state to take in most of the 45-mile-long Animas Mountains and surrounding desert. Seventy-five species of mammals, more than are found in any national park or wildlife refuge, live in habitats that range from dry grasslands to a forested […]
Posted inJune 5, 1989: Forester challenges his agency to a discussion
Fighting over the Missouri’s big buckets
The drought of 1987 and 1988 has sent water levels on Missouri River reservoirs plummeting toward record lows, intensifying conflicts between upper and lower basin states over river and reservoir management and water allocations. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/21.11/download-entire-issue
Posted inJune 5, 1989: Forester challenges his agency to a discussion
Forester challenges his agency to a discussion
It wasn’t until timber sales planner Jeff DeBonis was transferred to the Willamette National Forest — the biggest timber-producing national forest in the country — that what he saw made him open his mouth. To read this article, click the “View a PDF from the original” link below, or download the entire issue: http://www.hcn.org/issues/21.11/download-entire-issue This […]
Posted inMay 22, 1989: The charring of Wyoming
Group says coal tax cut hurts Montana
According to a February report published by the Western Organization of Resource Councils, the new tax rates have significantly reduced state income and not produced new jobs. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/21.10/download-entire-issue
Posted inMay 22, 1989: The charring of Wyoming
Biff! Pow! Bang! Three initiatives lose to big money
Last November, environmental activists waging underfinanced ballon initiative campaigns in South Dakota, Montana and Nebraska took beatings from well-funded experts. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/21.10/download-entire-issue
Posted inMay 22, 1989: The charring of Wyoming
The charring of Wyoming
In the midst of Wyoming’s energy depression, Char-Fuels of Wyoming, Inc. seemed to offer a dream come true. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/21.10/download-entire-issue
Posted inMay 8, 1989: Nevada fights its second nuclear war
Logging our way to economic poverty
Coos Bay, Ore., is awash in logs, but for the first time since 1936 there’s not a single plywood or lumber mill operating in the area. Instead, there are foreign-flagged ships. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/21.9/download-entire-issue
Posted inMay 8, 1989: Nevada fights its second nuclear war
Wyoming land for ‘sale’: only $2.68/acre
Nearly 30,000 acres of federal land in Wyoming have been sold to private owners in the last 12 years — at an average price of $2.68 an acre, federal records show. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/21.9/download-entire-issue
Posted inApril 24, 1989: HCN's Guide to Outdoor Education in the West
Outward Bounds’ roots are in compassion and strength
Mark Udall says the Colorado school will continue to do what it always has: “teaching through and for the wilderness.” Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/21.8/download-entire-issue
Posted inApril 24, 1989: HCN's Guide to Outdoor Education in the West
Outdoor educators must stop playing it safe
My theories of education begin with the principle that learning derives from life, all of life, as an unending process from birth to death. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/21.8/download-entire-issue
Posted inApril 24, 1989: HCN's Guide to Outdoor Education in the West
Cold fences and warm milk
At the Colorado Rocky Mountain School, “Our students become very sensitized to the whole issue of how you live your life in conjunction with a certain type of environment.” Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/21.8/download-entire-issue
Posted inApril 10, 1989: Drought, fire and cold ravage Yellowstone's elk
EPA to Denver: Wake up and smell the coffee!
Denver, Colorado’s giant Two Forks Dam received a crippling blow on March 24, when Environmental Protection Agency national administrator William Reilly ordered his Denver office to begin a veto of the project. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/21.7/download-entire-issue
Posted inApril 10, 1989: Drought, fire and cold ravage Yellowstone's elk
Why Denver’s concrete proposal got beat
Two Forks Dam is on the verge of veto because the economic currents are flowing against it, and the political currents are following. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/21.7/download-entire-issue
Posted inApril 10, 1989: Drought, fire and cold ravage Yellowstone's elk
How dam opponents developed and refined a strategy
The battle against Two Forks Dam was fought with two strategies, one within and one outside of the EIS process. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/21.7/download-entire-issue