From the outside, to a casual observer, Two Forks is inexplicable. From the inside, Two Forks is the only solution to the Denver metro area’s — and the West’s — dilemma that existing leadership can conceive of. Understand Two Forks, and understand the West. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/20.9/download-entire-issue
Two Forks will unite Colorado
Posted inMay 9, 1988: Two Forks Dam: Push comes to shove
Two Forks will reach far into Nebraska
Two Forks pits the one million wings along the Platte River against a little more than a million acre-feet of water storage. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/20.9/download-entire-issue
Posted inMay 9, 1988: Two Forks Dam: Push comes to shove
Two Forks Dam: Push comes to shove
When the dust settles a year or so from now, it is likely that the struggle over the proposed Two Forks Dam on the Front Range of Colorado will rank with the fights to stop the damming of the Grand Canyon and to halt the construction of the huge coal-fired power plant once proposed for […]
Posted inApril 25, 1988: Ecotage versus infiltrage: A tale of two environmental strategies
Hurling sand into society’s gears
Earth First! was born in the spring of 1980. Between tequila and beers and camping beneath the stars in the desert near a tiny Mexican border town, four men dedicated to the preservation of biological diversity hatched the notion of a group that was part Sierra Club, part Hell’s Angels, part Yippie. Download entire issue […]
Posted inApril 25, 1988: Ecotage versus infiltrage: A tale of two environmental strategies
Court tells Bureau of Reclamation to stick to irrigation
The Interior Department has suffered a setback to its plans for a greater role in marketing Missouri River reservoir water. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/20.8/download-entire-issue
Posted inApril 25, 1988: Ecotage versus infiltrage: A tale of two environmental strategies
The fine art of infiltrage
The Nature Conservancy is an anomaly in the environmental movement. It is apolitical, silent almost to the point of secrecy, friendly with corporate America, and run more like a successful business than a non-profit organization. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/20.8/download-entire-issue
Posted inApril 11, 1988: God's country is being developed
New monument in New Mexico angers tribe
When the nation’s newest national monument — New Mexico’s El Malpais — was signed into being by President Reagan in 1987, the 20-year battle to preserve the state’s lavaland was lauded by New Mexico politicians and wilderness groups. But the neighboring Acoma Tribe was quiet. For two years it has objected to some of the […]
Posted inApril 11, 1988: God's country is being developed
In the West, subsidy begets subsidy begets subsidy
Knowing that the history of water development in the West is marked by waste, fraud and assorted other abuses does not make it easier to accept new reminders that the government is pouring our money down some drain. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/20.7/download-entire-issue
Posted inApril 11, 1988: God's country is being developed
God’s country is being developed
Church Universal and Triumphant stirs controversy on the northern edge of Yellowstone National Park. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/20.7/download-entire-issue
Posted inMarch 28, 1988: Off-road vehicles and the public's land
Exxon tangles with Wyoming over taxes
Wyoming, already hard-hit by the long decline in oil and gas prices and exploration, is further strapped without the taxes it expected from Exxon’s LaBarge project. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/20.6/download-entire-issue
Posted inMarch 28, 1988: Off-road vehicles and the public's land
Where the rubber hits the environment
At issue in southern Arizona and elsewhere is a continuing debate over what to do about a form of recreation that is growing so rapidly that officials feel helpless. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/20.6/download-entire-issue
Posted inMarch 28, 1988: Off-road vehicles and the public's land
ORVs on public land require education and regulation
Lack of understanding of the fragility of our Western range and forest lands, combined with unenforced regulations, have allowed off-road vehicles to seriously damage our public lands. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/20.6/download-entire-issue
Posted inMarch 14, 1988: Montana's Clark Fork River: An industrial drain
Wyoming tribes win huge water victory
Wyoming’s Shoshone and Arapahoe Indian tribes are happily drowning in water rights following a victory over the state in the Wyoming Supreme Court. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/20.5/download-entire-issue
Posted inMarch 14, 1988: Montana's Clark Fork River: An industrial drain
The legacy of Montana’s pioneers
How the copper under Butte, Montana., turned the Clark Fork into an industrial ditch. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/20.5/download-entire-issue
Posted inMarch 14, 1988: Montana's Clark Fork River: An industrial drain
Montana’s Clark Fork River: An industrial drain
The Clark Fork of the Columbia has been neglected and abused for decades, and is only now gaining the attention of people who are determined to bring it back to life. (To read the full text, click on the “View a PDF from the original” link below, or download a PDF of the entire issue: http://www.hcn.org/issues/20.5/download-entire-issue) This […]
Posted inFebruary 29, 1988: Oil and gas leasing reform: Somewhat more than half a loaf
A $1 billion cleanup may not be enough
The Rocky Mountain Arsenal northeast of Denver — where the Army once made nerve gas, mustard gas and other chemical weapons — is straining its Superfund budget. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/20.4/download-entire-issue
Posted inFebruary 29, 1988: Oil and gas leasing reform: Somewhat more than half a loaf
Trying to save trout from suffocation
Scientists experiment with ways to maintain oxygen in frozen lakes so trout will survive until spring. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/20.4/download-entire-issue
Posted inFebruary 29, 1988: Oil and gas leasing reform: Somewhat more than half a loaf
Somewhat more than half a loaf
Efforts to correct problems with oil and gas leasing on public lands have produced a confusing and often contradictory welter of legislation and court decisions that have left central issues unresolved. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/20.4/download-entire-issue
Posted inFebruary 15, 1988: South Dakota Sioux demand the Black Hills
South Dakota Sioux demand the Black Hills
Their hope for the future rests on the fact that the U.S. government took their land by imposing a fraudulent treaty on them in 1877 — the same year that Crazy Horse was killed by a bayonet-wielding soldier. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/20.3/download-entire-issue
Posted inFebruary 15, 1988: South Dakota Sioux demand the Black Hills
Dynamiteer makes instant old-growth
Larry Wineberg makes the biggest birdhouses in the Pacific Northwest by blowing Douglas firs in half. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/20.3/download-entire-issue