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
EPA to Denver: Wake up and smell the coffee!
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
Posted inApril 10, 1989: Drought, fire and cold ravage Yellowstone's elk
Drought, fire and cold ravage Yellowstone’s elk
As a harsh winter follows a summer of fire, up to one-third of Yellowstone National Park’s 21,000 northern herd elk may die, either at the hands of hunters or from starvation. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/21.7/download-entire-issue
Posted inMarch 27, 1989: In Montana: Grass-roots group may be Astroturf
The West mourns Abbey’s death
Writer Edward Abbey’s sudden death on March 14th left the nation’s environmental movement and lovers of wild and untrammeled land everywhere stunned and grieving. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/21.6/download-entire-issue
Posted inMarch 27, 1989: In Montana: Grass-roots group may be Astroturf
Nation’s duck factories are drained away
Prairie potholes of Montana, the Dakotas, Minnesota and Iowa are the most productive ecosystems in the U.S., says a Department of Interior study. They are also the most threatened. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/21.6/download-entire-issue
Posted inMarch 27, 1989: In Montana: Grass-roots group may be Astroturf
In Montana: Grass-roots group may be Astroturf
At first it looked like simply another battle over trees, but this particular environmental war in Montana has a political twist. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/21.6/download-entire-issue
Posted inMarch 27, 1989: In Montana: Grass-roots group may be Astroturf
Edward Abbey: druid of the arches
The sudden death last week of Edward Abbey recalled to us this superb profile of the writer by Bruce Hamilton, who was HCN managing editor in 1976, when this story appeared. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/21.6/download-entire-issue
Posted inMarch 13, 1989: Synthetic Fuels Revisited, Part II
If everything else fails, we may behave wisely
The West was saved from the wrath of the energy industry by the genius of a free market, even though that market was far from perfect. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/21.5/download-entire-issue
Posted inMarch 13, 1989: Synthetic Fuels Revisited, Part II
What did not happen on the Great Plains
The Bureau of Reclamation’s grandiose plans — laid out in the 1971 North Central Power Study — to turn parts of Montana, Wyoming and the Dakotas into an energy sacrifice area haven’t come to pass. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/21.5/download-entire-issue
Posted inMarch 13, 1989: Synthetic Fuels Revisited, Part II
Syngas plant survives the ’80s
With contracts that insulate it from low energy prices, the Great Plains coal gasification plant in Beulah, N.D., endures as a relic of the federal government’s 1970s syn-fuels fascination. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/21.5/download-entire-issue
Posted inMarch 13, 1989: Synthetic Fuels Revisited, Part II
Navajo Nation is in governmental gridlock
With the turmoil showing little sign of abating, millions of dollars worth of economic development prospects — the linchpin of MacDonald’s administration — may also soon go down the drain as investors shy away. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/21.5/download-entire-issue
Posted inMay 8, 1989: Nevada fights its second nuclear war
Nevada fights its second nuclear war
The U.S. Department of Energy is preparing to place the nation’s first high-level nuclear waste repository on federal land adjacent to a former nuclear test site. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/21.9/download-entire-issue
Posted inFebruary 27, 1989: Synthetic Fuels Revisited, Part I
The West is crippled by its resources
Writer Wallace Stegner has a rule of thumb: The more arid a state, the worse its congressional delegation. I have a corollary to that rule: The more a state is “blessed” with natural resources, tile worse off it will be economically, socially and politically. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/21.4/download-entire-issue
Posted inFebruary 27, 1989: Synthetic Fuels Revisited, Part I
Oil shale oozes legal decision and congressional debate
The West’s immense deposits of oil shale are estimated to hold more than 1.8 trillion barrels of oil, but so far they have proven far more valuable to lawyers and land speculators than to oil men. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/21.4/download-entire-issue
Posted inFebruary 27, 1989: Synthetic Fuels Revisited, Part I
An oil shale project hangs on, but barely
Unocal did not leave with the rest of the shale crowd in 1982. But all isn’t well with the nation’s first and only commercial-scale oil shale plant. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/21.4/download-entire-issue
Posted inFebruary 13, 1989: Are wildlife unbranded cattle?
Invisible gold fuels Elko’s boom
The discovery of rich gold deposits in the brown Tuscarora Mountains northwest of Elko, Nev., has ignited a latter day gold rush. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/21.3/download-entire-issue
Posted inFebruary 13, 1989: Are wildlife unbranded cattle?
Instream flow proposal is diverted in N.M.
Conservationists pushing for a law preserving instream flows in New Mexico rivers are once more finding a formidable foe in State Engineer Steven Reynolds. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/21.3/download-entire-issue
Posted inFebruary 13, 1989: Are wildlife unbranded cattle?
Are wildlife unbranded cattle?
Ready access to fishing and hunting in states like Montana, Idaho and Wyoming is now threatened by the trend toward fee hunting by owners of large blocks of land. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/21.3/download-entire-issue
Posted inJanuary 31, 1989: Manuel Lujan: Lighter touch coming to Interior
Manuel Lujan: Lighter touch coming to Interior
Many agree that Lujan won’t have the aggressive hostility to conservation interests of a James Watt. Beyond that, few can say. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/21.2/download-entire-issue