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
Two western states still in collider race
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
Posted inDecember 21, 1987: Caves need protection
Hapless DOE: What a long, strange trip it’s on
Transportation of nuclear waste is an issue waiting to get hot. Federal plans for finding a place to put it are unclear, but the government’s ultimate goal is disposal of radioactive debris from the civilian reactor and nuclear weapons industries in a deep geologic formation. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/19.24/download-entire-issue
Posted inDecember 21, 1987: Caves need protection
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
Posted inDecember 21, 1987: Caves need protection
Idaho debates public land access
The Idaho Conservation League joins a battle to regain access to a part of the Sawtooth National Recreation Area. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/19.24/download-entire-issue
Posted inDecember 21, 1987: Caves need protection
Hidden, but vulnerable
Congress considers a little-known bill — the Federal Cave Resources Protection Act — that would guard the thousands of caves underlying public lands from vandalism and other forms of destruction. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/19.24/download-entire-issue
Posted inDecember 7, 1987: Is Montana being (de)railroaded?
Sen. McCain: a conservative conservationist
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
Posted inDecember 7, 1987: Is Montana being (de)railroaded?
Is Montana being (de)railroaded?
Dennis Washington’s Montana Rail Link takes over 900 miles of track from Burlington Northern, prompting picketing (and possibly sabotage) by workers. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/19.23/download-entire-issue
Posted inDecember 7, 1987: Is Montana being (de)railroaded?
$1/pound copper stops a Utah dust storm, for the moment
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
Posted inNovember 23, 1987: The wolf in the West: Singing a sad song
Looking at wolves from a Montana rancher’s point of view
A ranch in northern Montana has lost 10 sheep and three cows to wolves in the past year. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/19.22/download-entire-issue
Posted inNovember 23, 1987: The wolf in the West: Singing a sad song
Cancer strikes indirectly at the slow-growing yew
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
Posted inNovember 23, 1987: The wolf in the West: Singing a sad song
Wolf recovery is stopped dead
The death of six wolves roaming northwest Montana was a serious blow to the recovery effort, but it may be only a sign of much larger problems facing the species. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/19.22/download-entire-issue
Posted inNovember 9, 1987: Acoma Indians protest a proposed national monument in New Mexico
‘Big Open’ proposal arouses strong emotion and hostility in Montana
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
Posted inNovember 9, 1987: Acoma Indians protest a proposed national monument in New Mexico
Acoma Indians protest a proposed national monument in New Mexico
The Acoma Indian tribe doesn’t want El Malpais, its ancestral ground, to be wilderness. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/19.21/download-entire-issue
Posted inOctober 26, 1987: Ski industry collides with the big game industry
The Imperial Valley sits down with the upper basin
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