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
In the West, subsidy begets subsidy begets subsidy
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
Posted inFebruary 1, 1988: Idaho's potato king proposes 100 power plants
Two western states still in collider race
Of the 11 sites proposed by nine Western states, one near Phoenix, Ariz., and another outside Denver, Colo., advanced to the Department of Energy’s list of eight finalists in the intense national competition for the $6 billion Superconducting Super Collider. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/20.2/download-entire-issue
Posted inFebruary 1, 1988: Idaho's potato king proposes 100 power plants
McClure-Andrus wilderness bill is worse than nothing
The McClure-Andrus package is obviously superior, statewide, to McClure’s 1984 proposal. But the transformation of public perceptions that we require has not occurred. Now the exigencies of substantially improving or fighting this legislation will dominate our time. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/20.2/download-entire-issue
Posted inFebruary 1, 1988: Idaho's potato king proposes 100 power plants
Idaho’s potato king proposes 100 power plants
The state’s richest man, industrialist J.R. Simplot, announced in late December that he wants to build 100 coal-fired power plants along the Snake River over the next 50 years. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/20.2/download-entire-issue
Posted inFebruary 1, 1988: Idaho's potato king proposes 100 power plants
1987 Index
See a list of all High Country News articles published in 1987, categorized by subject. Click link to view PDF. This article appeared in the print edition of the magazine with the headline 1987 Index.
Posted inJanuary 5, 1988: Is the grizzly adapting fast enough?
Montana wool growers say that the wolf is at the door
Wolves were thought to be extinct in this part of the country, wiped out over a half-century ago by bounty hunters and government trappers. But this year, in southeastern Montana, they’re the center of the talk. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/20.1/download-entire-issue
Posted inJanuary 5, 1988: Is the grizzly adapting fast enough?
Learning to live off the land
While there is hope that the grizzly is nearing recovery in the short term, most scientists remain worried about the long haul. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/20.1/download-entire-issue
Posted inJanuary 5, 1988: Is the grizzly adapting fast enough?
It is very early springtime on Mt. St. Helens
Above, there once was a mountain; below, a new one is rising, a jumbled mound of steaming magma. Surrounding it, striped spires of rock shoot 2,000 feet straight up from the bottom of North America’s most famous volcano. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/20.1/download-entire-issue