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
In Denver, the rule is: Exhale, but don’t inhale
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
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