Environmental groups lose Burr Trail case

Four environmental groups suffered a defeat when U.S. District Judge Aldon Anderson ruled that Utah’s rugged and beautiful Burr Trail may be widened and improved in Garfield County. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/19.24/download-entire-issue

How Arizona’s senator became instrumental in limiting air-tour flights over the Grand Canyon and other environmental causes. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/19.23/download-entire-issue

Reopening the old Kennecott copper mine in Bingham Canyon outside Salt Lake City was happy news for Utah’s economy. But it is a mixed blessing for Magna, a nearby town that sits next to what is probably the world’s largest mine-tailings pond. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/19.23/download-entire-issue

With the discovery that it may help cure cancer, a long-ignored tree has become the center of a lively debate in the Pacific Northwest. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/19.22/download-entire-issue

The plan would shift marginal agriculture on the northern plains toward an economy based on free-ranging wildlife. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/19.21/download-entire-issue

It may not have been historic, but it was certainly startling to find several directors and staff members of California’s Imperial Irrigation District at a recent meeting with the most knowledgeable water experts, attorneys and even politicians from the upper basin states of the Colorado River. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/19.20/download-entire-issue

To the Nevada Congressional delegation and the Interior Department, a proposed land exchange between the federal government and a defense contractor is a great deal. Nevertheless, opposition is strong. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/19.19/download-entire-issue

The sheriff was the first to see that a 14-mile section of the North Platte, that high-plains haven for rainbow and brown trout, was strangling. The killer was a spill of more than 90,000 gallons of gasoline that escaped from a ruptured pipeline and bubbled nine miles down a dusty arroyo into the river. Download […]