The 20-year-long history of High Country News is romantic because it is tragic. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/21.18/download-entire-issue
A tough weed takes root in the devastated West
Posted inSeptember 11, 1989: Two Forks dam: EPA reaffirms its veto intent
Biologists give up on foster parenting of whoopers
In June, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and its Canadian counterpart called for an end to the 14-year-old, $1.5 million “cross-fostering project.” Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/21.17/download-entire-issue
Posted inSeptember 11, 1989: Two Forks dam: EPA reaffirms its veto intent
Two Forks dam: EPA reaffirms its veto intent
The Environmental Protection Agency has pushed the proposed Two Forks dam one step closer to oblivion. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/21.17/download-entire-issue
Posted inSeptember 11, 1989: Two Forks dam: EPA reaffirms its veto intent
Our first wilderness: The Gila Turns 65
In 1924, quietly and with little fanfare, the U.S. Forest Service created the first federal wilderness reserve: the Gila Wilderness of New Mexico. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/21.17/download-entire-issue
Posted inSeptember 11, 1989: Two Forks dam: EPA reaffirms its veto intent
Federal agents killed about 250,000 predators in 1987
For more than 60 years, very little has changed inside the federal Animal Damage Control division of the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/21.17/download-entire-issue
Posted inAugust 28, 1989: Still wild at 25
A tough band tries to survive in Idaho
Transplanted woodland caribou stick it out in the Selkirk Mountains. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/21.16/download-entire-issue
Posted inAugust 28, 1989: Still wild at 25
Public lands policy is an intellectual wilderness
Once, when America was young, we knew why we had public lands. Now that America is mature, few of us even know we have them. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/21.16/download-entire-issue
Posted inAugust 28, 1989: Still wild at 25
Still wild at 25
Canyonlands National Park remains primitive, with more dirt roads than paved. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/21.16/download-entire-issue
Posted inAugust 14, 1989: In Tulluride, Colorado ...
What happens when trespassing mink meet retreating geese?
The notion of the physical world as a web of interrelationships, of interpenetration and interdependency, is not at all congenial to the theory of property. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/21.15/download-entire-issue
Posted inAugust 14, 1989: In Tulluride, Colorado ...
In Tulluride, Colorado …
Mining has left hollowed-out, suppurating mountains and mesas of waste. Now the town, state and mining company debate potential fix-up plans. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/21.15/download-entire-issue
Posted inAugust 14, 1989: In Tulluride, Colorado ...
How an FBI mole tunneled into Earth First!
A country-swing dancer who showed up in Prescott last summer had a bug in his shirt, recording hundreds of hours of conversations between members of the radical environmental group. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/21.15/download-entire-issue
Posted inJuly 31, 1989: Nuclear plant's cover is blown
The old growth fight and logging go on
Twenty-four people were arrested July 11 while protesting the logging of old-growth forests in southern Oregon’s North Kalmiopsis area. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/21.14/download-entire-issue
Posted inJuly 31, 1989: Nuclear plant's cover is blown
Utah’s land board threatens to kill its hostages
On July 12, the Utah Board of State Lands and Forestry voted unanimously to approve a draft “marketing plan” to sell off 116,000 acres of state-owned-lands within Arches National Park, Capitol Reef National Park, Dinosaur National Monument, Glen Canyon National Recreation Area and the Navajo and Goshute Indian reservations. Download entire issue to view this […]
Posted inJuly 31, 1989: Nuclear plant's cover is blown
Nuclear plant’s cover is blown
On June 6, 75 agents from a joint FBI-EPA task force raided the Rocky Flats nuclear weapons plant near Denver. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/21.14/download-entire-issue
Posted inJuly 3, 1989: Tumbleweeds triumphant
Idaho wilderness issue is tied in knots
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
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 […]