Environmentalists battle residents of the backcountry town of Yellow Pine over a 33-mile route that boarders the South Fork of the Salmon River. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/19.11/download-entire-issue
Access versus salmon in central Idaho
Posted inJune 8, 1987: Wyoming's vast, scarred Red Desert
Wyoming’s vast, scarred Red Desert
The Red Desert is quiet now, but the marks remain from a period of oil, gas and uranium exploration and extraction. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/19.11/download-entire-issue
Posted inJune 8, 1987: Wyoming's vast, scarred Red Desert
The destructive death throes of Oregon I
The old “Oregon I” was built upon the seemingly endless supply of never-cut timber called old-growth. After 40 years of accelerated logging of these towering forests after World War II, less than 10 percent now remain. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/19.11/download-entire-issue
Posted inMay 25, 1987: Groundwater pollution: A silent, insidious invasion
The EPA is hunting those who kill by degrees
There are a thousand and one ways to get rid of a drum of hazardous waste, but only a handful of them are legal. Despite shelves of hazardous waste laws and regulations with their well-defined civil and criminal penalties, environmental crime is increasing roughly in proportion to the country’s escalating chemical production. Download entire issue […]
Posted inMay 25, 1987: Groundwater pollution: A silent, insidious invasion
EPA rips the Two Forks EIS
The Environmental Protection Agency has given a flunking grade to the draft version of a $30 million environmental impact statement on the Denver metropolitan area’s future water supply system. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/19.10/download-entire-issue
Posted inMay 25, 1987: Groundwater pollution: A silent, insidious invasion
A deadly plume threatens Tucson
A neighborhood suspects the Tucson International Airport, where military aircraft are built and serviced, as the source of cancer-causing pollution. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/19.10/download-entire-issue
Posted inMay 18, 1979: The nation's hottest spot for cheap solar homes
The nation’s hottest spot for cheap solar homes
Out of necessity, many residents in and around sunny but cold Taos, N. Mex., have turned to passive solar technology to heat their homes. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/11.10/download-entire-issue
Posted inMay 11, 1987: A struggle for an Arizona peak
Some land was reforested only on paper
Forest Service employees overstated the number of acres reforested in 1985 in 23 of 39 ranger districts studied, a U.S. Department of Agriculture audit shows. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/19.9/download-entire-issue
Posted inMay 11, 1987: A struggle for an Arizona peak
Rancher-lawmaker takes on the establishment
Idaho’s John Peavey proves that a legislator can win major fights against the West’s power triangle — big business, utilities and the farm-ranch establishment. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/19.9/download-entire-issue
Posted inMay 11, 1987: A struggle for an Arizona peak
A struggle for an Arizona peak
Preservationists oppose construction of an astronomical observatory on Mount Graham. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/19.9/download-entire-issue
Posted inApril 27, 1987: Two views of Allan Savory
BuRec looks anew at the Teton Dam site
Ten years after the collapse of the Teton Dam, irrigators and city officials in eastern Idaho are beginning a campaign to rebuild it. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/19.8/download-entire-issue
Posted inApril 27, 1987: Two views of Allan Savory
Allan Savory: Creator of a Socratic approach to land management
Savory’s schematic rendition of holistic analysis can be used to make management decisions, analyze a policy, diagnose a problem or define a research project. Everything depends on the functioning of four interrelated processes that define the ecosystem. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/19.8/download-entire-issue
Posted inApril 27, 1987: Two views of Allan Savory
Allan Savory: Guru of false hopes and an overstocked range
More than any other reason, Savory owes his success thus far to the utter failure of today’s range management establishment. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/19.8/download-entire-issue
Posted inApril 13, 1987: Heap leach mining comes to South Dakota
The 1987 Wyoming Legislature was no fun
Confronted by a drastic decline in their mineral-based income, lawmakers came to Wyoming’s capital with budget axes in hand. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/19.7/download-entire-issue
Posted inApril 13, 1987: Heap leach mining comes to South Dakota
Spring in South Dakota
There is a quickening in the land. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/19.7/download-entire-issue
Posted inApril 13, 1987: Heap leach mining comes to South Dakota
Heap leach mining comes to South Dakota
Wharf Resources’s open pits, roads, parking lots, heap leach piles, holding ponds and refinery are a vast, complex earth-moving enterprise in the Black Hills. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/19.7/download-entire-issue
Posted inMarch 30, 1987: The Northern Utes take on Utah
The end of multiple use
Although we are now in a transition stage, forces are in motion that will bring to an end the domination of national forests by timber harvesting. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/19.6/download-entire-issue
Posted inMarch 30, 1987: The Northern Utes take on Utah
How the Ute Tribe lost its water
The way in which the Northern Utes of northeast Utah have lost their water to the Central Utah Project is both difficult to believe and all too believable. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/19.6/download-entire-issue
Posted inMarch 30, 1987: The Northern Utes take on Utah
An Indian tribe regains its sovereign rights over 3 million acres
In a little-noticed battle, 2,500 members of the Northern Ute Indian tribe have re-established sovereignty in Utah’s Uintah Basin. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/19.6/download-entire-issue
Posted inMarch 16, 1987: The wild horse: Feral pest or living history?
The continuing saga of the West’s wild horse
The number of horses on the range doubles roughly every seven years, creating conflict between ranchers, land managers and those who see the animals as a last remnant of the Wild West. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/19.5/download-entire-issue