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
In Montana: Grass-roots group may be Astroturf
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
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