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
Yet another unneeded power plant starts generating
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
Posted inJune 8, 1987: Wyoming's vast, scarred Red Desert
Access versus salmon in central Idaho
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
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