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
Making a difference on the Clark Fork
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
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