A plan to invigorate the state’s economy by taking sewage ash from the Twin Cities backfires. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/20.14/download-entire-issue
City slickers strike it rich in South Dakota
Posted inJuly 18, 1988: Can nuclear waste be salted away?
O’Toole is the Adam Smith of forest economics
O’Toole has done all of us, including the Forest Service, a great favor. His genius and hard work have shown us that the national forests are governed by a welter of laws whose purpose and workings are exactly the same as those of the 1872 Mining Law. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/20.13/download-entire-issue
Posted inJuly 18, 1988: Can nuclear waste be salted away?
Rhythms of the forest
We need to expand our view of time, give natural events more space and look for the heartbeats that keep it all running. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/20.13/download-entire-issue
Posted inJuly 18, 1988: Can nuclear waste be salted away?
Can nuclear waste be salted away?
All is not well with the nation’s first planned nuclear-waste dump, the Waste Isolation Pilot Project. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/20.13/download-entire-issue
Posted inJune 20, 1988: Parks are increasingly vulnerable
Wyoming elk antlers head for the Orient
During its 20-year history, the annual Boy Scout Elk Antler Auction, held each spring in Jackson, Wyo., has slowly become dominated by antler traders from the Orient who export the horns to Korea and transform them into wafer-sized aphrodisiacs or medicinal teas. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/20.12/download-entire-issue
Posted inJune 20, 1988: Parks are increasingly vulnerable
Will Wyoming’s Clark Fork remain wild?
Proposals to designate the river as “wild and scenic” run into lingering proposals for dams. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/20.12/download-entire-issue
Posted inJune 20, 1988: Parks are increasingly vulnerable
Parks are increasingly vulnerable
Like lines drawn in the sand, the borders of America’s national parks have not prevented the crowding and shoving of neighboring public and private landowners. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/20.12/download-entire-issue
Posted inJune 6, 1988: Will the Crow Tribe dribble away $29 million in coal tax money?
The U.S. has spent a century chiseling away Crow land
The Crow have been one of the more flexible tribes in adapting to the ways of the dominant culture. But tribal leaders fear their easygoing ways may cost Crow children their ancestral ground. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/20.11/download-entire-issue
Posted inJune 6, 1988: Will the Crow Tribe dribble away $29 million in coal tax money?
Ranchers may be losing the war of the myths
The traditional view of the West and its wild rangeland is changing. No longer are conservationists and environmentalists a fringe interest group. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/20.11/download-entire-issue
Posted inJune 6, 1988: Will the Crow Tribe dribble away $29 million in coal tax money?
Will the Crow Tribe dribble away $29 million in coal tax money?
A ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court opens up an old account and allows the tribe to set its own coal tax rates. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/20.11/download-entire-issue
Posted inMay 23, 1988: How do you combine birds and bombs?
Phoenix and LA cast long shadows
Petrified Forest-Painted Desert National Park in northeastern Arizona is about 200 miles and a mountain range away from Phoenix, Ariz. But Phoenix, with help from even more distant Los Angeles, is the primary cause of air pollution at the park. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/20.10/download-entire-issue
Posted inMay 23, 1988: How do you combine birds and bombs?
The fight for rowing room in the Grand Canyon
One of the fastest growing and most lucrative sports in the West is river running, and river runners who once rafted at will now run on restricted launch dates and compete for access. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/20.10/download-entire-issue
Posted inMay 23, 1988: How do you combine birds and bombs?
How do you combine birds and bombs?
Along Idaho’s Snake River, military war-games run up against the densest known concentration of nesting raptors in the world. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/20.10/download-entire-issue
Posted inMay 9, 1988: Two Forks Dam: Push comes to shove
Two Forks will unite Colorado
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
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 […]