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
The continuing saga of the West’s wild horse
Posted inMarch 16, 1987: The wild horse: Feral pest or living history?
Navajo leader MacDonald shuts reservation’s newspaper
Six weeks after he said, “I have returned to serve my people,” Navajo Tribal Chairman Peter MacDonald shocked many by closing down a newspaper. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/19.5/download-entire-issue
Posted inMarch 16, 1987: The wild horse: Feral pest or living history?
BuRec wants to kill dozens of projects
The Reagan administration’s proposed 1988 budget for the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation means major changes for water projects in the West. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/19.5/download-entire-issue
Posted inMarch 2, 1987: The Hanford Nuclear Reservation: Poor engineering, worse PR
Ruminations on the ecology of wilderness trash
The great wilderness experience, at times, becomes a continuing obsession with inappropriately placed pop-tops, cigarette butts and Jiffy Pop tins. I am hopelessly addicted to collecting wilderness trash. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/19.4/download-entire-issue
Posted inMarch 2, 1987: The Hanford Nuclear Reservation: Poor engineering, worse PR
Congress to look again at oil-shale lands
A bill to prevent further transfer of federal oil-shale lands to private hands was introduced in Congress last month, marking what its co-sponsors say is a renewed effort to end the Reagan administration’s policy of privatizing federal lands. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/19.4/download-entire-issue
Posted inMarch 2, 1987: The Hanford Nuclear Reservation: Poor engineering, worse PR
The Hanford Nuclear Reservation: Poor engineering, worse PR
“It sucks” is what an unidentified staffer for U.S. Department of Energy concluded about his agency’s choice of the Hanford Nuclear Reservation as a candidate for the nation’s first high-level nuclear waste dump. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/19.4/download-entire-issue
Posted inFebruary 16, 1987: A game ranching bill in Wyoming pits landowners against hunters
Montana’s stream access war may be over
After more than five years of tug-of-war in the courts and the Montana Legislature, the battle over recreational access to rivers and streams appears to be settled. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/19.3/download-entire-issue
Posted inFebruary 16, 1987: A game ranching bill in Wyoming pits landowners against hunters
Marriage of convenience
Even as we make our alliances, there is no doubt that the environmental movement’s next great effort will be to contain and civilize the “recreation” industry, the “retirement” industry, and whatever else moves into the economic vacuum in the rural Rockies. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/19.3/download-entire-issue
Posted inFebruary 16, 1987: A game ranching bill in Wyoming pits landowners against hunters
Idaho enters the nuclear weapons business
The Idaho National Engineering Laboratory near Idaho Falls is preparing for its first major nuclear weapons project. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/19.3/download-entire-issue
Posted inFebruary 16, 1987: A game ranching bill in Wyoming pits landowners against hunters
A game ranching bill in Wyoming pits landowners against hunters
The jerry-built system of wildlife management on a mix of state-owned, federal and private lands is under pressure from private landowners. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/19.3/download-entire-issue
Posted inFebruary 2, 1987: The West cleans up its act
New powerline could electrocute salmon
The Northwest’s energy surplus is the latest battleground in the decades-long trench warfare between salmon and steelhead advocates and the Bonneville Power Administration. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/19.2/download-entire-issue
Posted inFebruary 2, 1987: The West cleans up its act
L-P turns up the heat in Wyoming
The Louisiana-Pacific Corp. has mounted a controversial media campaign to win public support for increased timber sales in Wyoming’s Bridger-Teton National Forest. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/19.2/download-entire-issue
Posted inFebruary 2, 1987: The West cleans up its act
The West cleans up its act
An acid rain-causing copper smelter in Douglas, Ariz., closes. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/19.2/download-entire-issue
Posted inJanuary 19, 1987: Rebottling the nuclear genie
The West’s top stories: land, land, land, land
The 1986 High Country News index beginning on page 8 lists hundreds of individual stories, but all are about the same question: the use and control of the land. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/19.1/download-entire-issue
Posted inJanuary 19, 1987: Rebottling the nuclear genie
An attempt to save the last 10 percent
In one of the more contested timber sales last year, 20 people were arrested while demonstrating against the logging of 63 acres near Detroit, Ore. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/19.1/download-entire-issue
Posted inJanuary 19, 1987: Rebottling the nuclear genie
Rebottling the nuclear genie
A spill at a United Nuclear Corp. uranium mill highlights problems in New Mexico’s uranium belt. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/19.1/download-entire-issue
Posted inJanuary 19, 1987: Rebottling the nuclear genie
1986 Index
See a list of all High Country News articles published in 1986, categorized by subject. Click link to view PDF. This article appeared in the print edition of the magazine with the headline 1986 Index.
Posted inDecember 22, 1986: An America that did not happen
Treaty ends Colorado water wars
The City of Denver, the West Slope’s Colorado River Water Conservation District and the Northern Colorado Water Conservation District have decided to end decades of courtroom and political bloodletting by signing a tripartite agreement. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/18.24/download-entire-issue
Posted inDecember 22, 1986: An America that did not happen
Post mortem on FOE
With the closure of Friends of the Earth’s western Colorado office in Palisade and its branch offices in Tucson, Ariz., Crested Butte, Colo., and Moab, Utah, FOE’s 17-year conservation program in the intermountain West is now history. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/18.24/download-entire-issue
Posted inDecember 22, 1986: An America that did not happen
An America that did not happen
The closure of Camp Grisdale, a planned community for a permanent workforce of loggers on Washington’s Olympic Peninsula, marks the end of a sustained-yield program that was supposed to last at least a century. To read the full text, click on the “View a PDF from the original” link below, or download a PDF of […]