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
The West is crippled by its resources
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
Posted inJanuary 31, 1989: Manuel Lujan: Lighter touch coming to Interior
Bush negotiated a Western minefield to reach Lujan
Bush faced the nearly impossible task of trying to satisfy groups which have opposing philosophies of how to manage the federal lands administered by the Interior Department. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/21.2/download-entire-issue
Posted inJanuary 31, 1989: Manuel Lujan: Lighter touch coming to Interior
Are domestic sheep killing bighorn sheep?
A recent outbreak of a deadly disease in Idaho’s Salmon River bighorn sheep herd has raised the old issue of whether domestic sheep are to blame. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/21.2/download-entire-issue
Posted inJanuary 31, 1989: Manuel Lujan: Lighter touch coming to Interior
1988 Index
See a list of all High Country News articles published in 1988, categorized by subject. Click link to view PDF. This article appeared in the print edition of the magazine with the headline 1988 Index.
Posted inJanuary 3, 1989: In southern Utah: Voters reject an industrial future
Don’t waste us, say Nevada and Utah
Although the proposed Cisco toxic waste incinerator was rejected by Grand County voters, Utah still faces major decisions on toxic waste disposal. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/21.1/download-entire-issue
Posted inJanuary 3, 1989: In southern Utah: Voters reject an industrial future
Here’s a chance to win back the West’s rivers
The war for surface water in the intermountain West will likely be won or lost in battles before a single federal agency — the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/21.1/download-entire-issue
Posted inJanuary 3, 1989: In southern Utah: Voters reject an industrial future
In southern Utah: Voters reject an industrial future
By a two-to-one margin, Grand County residents voted down a toxic waste incinerator slated for the all-but-abandoned railroad town of Cisco. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/21.1/download-entire-issue
Posted inDecember 19, 1988: The West's nuclear revolt
WIPP misses its fall debut
The U.S. Department of Energy and its private contractors aren’t ready to open the first nuclear waste dump in the world. Today, nearly 10 years old, almost fully constructed and containing $700 million in hardware, the Waste Isolation Pilot Project lies in a state of limbo. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/20.24/download-entire-issue
Posted inDecember 19, 1988: The West's nuclear revolt
INEL puts Idaho’s political hypocrisy to a rough test
The Idaho National Energy Lab is the biggest blind spot in Idaho politics. Politicians who rail against the evils of big government while pulling every string for INEL projects are faithfully reflecting those who elect them. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/20.24/download-entire-issue
Posted inDecember 19, 1988: The West's nuclear revolt
INEL: Beating plowshares into swords
INEL employs more than 10,000 workers, or 2.5 percent of Idaho’s work force. Only the state government itself employs more people. But it comes with a legacy of pollution. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/20.24/download-entire-issue
Posted inDecember 19, 1988: The West's nuclear revolt
The West’s nuclear revolt
Plagued by mistakes, accidents and incompetence, the Department of Energy’s nuclear weapons production system is grinding to a halt, and the West, alarmed by the pollution in its midst, has begun to revolt. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/20.24/download-entire-issue
Posted inDecember 5, 1988: Oil industry rolls over opponents
Did Yale club steal Geronimo’s skull?
Geronimo’s skull may have been on display for 70 years inside the Yale University’s exclusive Skull and Bones Society. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/20.23/download-entire-issue
Posted inDecember 5, 1988: Oil industry rolls over opponents
Wallace Stegner: The transcendent Western writer
The geographic removal of Stegner from the inland Western landscape he helps us see says a great deal about the past state of this region. But we do not yet know whether the forces that led him out of the region are artifacts or persisting conditions. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/20.23/download-entire-issue
Posted inDecember 5, 1988: Oil industry rolls over opponents
Oil industry rolls over opponents
Jackson Hole environmentalists and local government suffered two big defeats recently in the ongoing war over oil and gas leasing on Wyoming’s Bridger-Teton National Forest. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/20.23/download-entire-issue