Few of our waters are free of polluting discharges. There are local success stories, but many state water agencies say they are barely able to maintain water quality at 1972 levels. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/19.18/download-entire-issue
Clean Water Act hasn’t done the job
Posted inSeptember 14, 1987: Beauty, isolation and cheap land bring a sect to Montana
Tribes say rights hearing hurts sovereignty
The Navajo Tribe objects to hearings held by the U.S. Civil Rights Commission to examine tribal courts and freedom of the press on reservations. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/19.17/download-entire-issue
Posted inSeptember 14, 1987: Beauty, isolation and cheap land bring a sect to Montana
Court ruling may ignite chain reaction in uranium industry
The nation’s ailing uranium industry is glowing with anticipation now that a federal appeals court has barred the importation of foreign uranium for enrichment in the United States. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/19.17/download-entire-issue
Posted inSeptember 14, 1987: Beauty, isolation and cheap land bring a sect to Montana
Beauty, isolation and cheap land bring a sect to Montana
The Church Universal and Triumphant, a wealthy religious group from southern California, recently moved to a ranch called the Royal Teton on the northern boundary of Yellowstone National Park. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/19.17/download-entire-issue
Posted inAugust 31, 1987: Range war in South Dakota
Toxic gas drives families out of a Wyoming subdivision
Questions remain about the toxic gases that forced all residents of a Gillette, Wyo., subdivision to flee their homes earlier this year. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/19.16/download-entire-issue
Posted inAugust 31, 1987: Range war in South Dakota
Yet another unneeded power plant starts generating
The Intermountain Power Project, the latest in a series of large power plants in the Southwest that keep California cities lighted, fired up this summer. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/19.16/download-entire-issue
Posted inAugust 31, 1987: Range war in South Dakota
Range war in South Dakota
Ranchers and the Forest Service butt heads over management of South Dakota’s national grasslands. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/19.16/download-entire-issue
Posted inAugust 17, 1987: Hoover Dam, 1990s version: The Superconducting Collider
Mining rears its head again in Montana
Despite grim times, it appears that reports of the death of Montana’s hardrock mining industry have been greatly exaggerated. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/19.15/download-entire-issue
Posted inAugust 17, 1987: Hoover Dam, 1990s version: The Superconducting Collider
In search of a few long levers
Environmentalists should look beyond the regulate-litigate approach and consider things like superconductivity, which could have substantial long-term environmental benefits. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/19.15/download-entire-issue
Posted inAugust 17, 1987: Hoover Dam, 1990s version: The Superconducting Collider
Hoover Dam, 1990s version: The Superconducting Collider
To the Rocky Mountain West, the $4.4 billion atom-smashing Superconducting Super Collider represents economic development of the most desirable kind. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/19.15/download-entire-issue
Posted inAugust 3, 1987: In Denver, the rule is: Exhale, but don't inhale
What to do in the West when there’s nothing to do
Argue with radio preachers. Sing hymns with Jimmy Joe Bobby and his Swinging Salvationeers. Defend secular humanism as a religion. And more … Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/19.14/download-entire-issue
Posted inAugust 3, 1987: In Denver, the rule is: Exhale, but don't inhale
Has Jackson, Wyo., been Californicated?
Life Link company officials say Jackson’s “California life-style” contributed to an unfavorable work climate. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/19.14/download-entire-issue
Posted inAugust 3, 1987: In Denver, the rule is: Exhale, but don't inhale
In Denver, the rule is: Exhale, but don’t inhale
Denver faces an annual battle with unhealthy carbon monoxide emitted by cars, trucks, woodstoves and fireplaces. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/19.14/download-entire-issue
Posted inJuly 6, 1987: Downwinders: America's nuclear sacrificial lambs
Nevada town is condemned by the U.S.
The Naval Air Station outside Fallon, Nev. forces out the last residents of Dixie Valley, an area used for military drills. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/19.13/download-entire-issue
Posted inJuly 6, 1987: Downwinders: America's nuclear sacrificial lambs
Downwinders: America’s nuclear sacrificial lambs
The federal government’s nuclear experiments at the Nevada Test Site have left a wake of illness and anguish cloaked in cover-up, and the victims — the “downwinders” — continue to fight for compensation to help them cope. (To read the full text, click on the “View a PDF from the original” link below, or download […]
Posted inJuly 6, 1987: Downwinders: America's nuclear sacrificial lambs
Arizona surrenders a dam to save CAP
Arizona’s congressional delegation has agreed to abandon plans for the $316 million Cliff Dam, contested by environmental groups, in exchange for those groups promising not to interfere with completion of the Central Arizona Project. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/19.13/download-entire-issue
Posted inJune 22, 1987: Update on Yellowstone: Mott quietly locks horns with his boss
Yellowstone under a microscope
The Corn-Gorte analysis and a Yellowstone Blueprint, being prepared by agencies that manage lands in the ecosystem, grew out of congressional hearings on the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem conducted in 1985. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/19.12/download-entire-issue
Posted inJune 22, 1987: Update on Yellowstone: Mott quietly locks horns with his boss
The Forest Service kowtows while forests burn
Our belief is that America will recover itself by the end of this decade, and stop the destruction of the forests. To do that, it will have to destroy the once-proud U.S. Forest Service. That will be easy, for the agency has deeply wounded itself. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/19.12/download-entire-issue
Posted inJune 22, 1987: Update on Yellowstone: Mott quietly locks horns with his boss
Williams pushes hard for a wilderness bill
Although Montana’s conservationists are willing to cooperate with Democratic Rep. Pat Williams, development interests are not. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/19.12/download-entire-issue
Posted inJune 22, 1987: Update on Yellowstone: Mott quietly locks horns with his boss
Update on Yellowstone: Mott quietly locks horns with his boss
Park Service Director William Penn Mott doesn’t agree with U.S. Interior Department official William Horn on many things, including wolf reintroduction. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/19.12/download-entire-issue