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.

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

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 […]

Art Cuelho, in his 20-by-24-foot garage studio in Big Timber, Mont., runs Seven Buffaloes Press, perhaps the only independent rural press still around. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/18.23/download-entire-issue

In a U.S. Senate contest, Democrat Tom Daschle wins after hammering on his opponent’s support of Reagan’s farm policies. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/18.22/download-entire-issue

Among Western Republicans, McClure is the biggest loser from the Senate shift. For six years he has kept Forest Service timber and roadbuilding budgets high and Bureau of Land Management grazing fees low. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/18.22/download-entire-issue

A glossary of water terms for those who wonder why water diversions are not diverting and why it is morally offensive to leave water flowing in a stream. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/18.21/download-entire-issue

The upper Colorado River was plumbed to put water on arid lands and to generate electricity. Today those uses are in decline while recreation, urbanization and aesthetics come on strong. Through luck or forethought, the river’s plumbing is proving adaptable to the new demands. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/18.21/download-entire-issue

In the high arid plains of southwest Wyoming, the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation has built Rube Goldberg irrigation systems that keep farmers on the edge of poverty and load up the rivers with salt. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/18.21/download-entire-issue

An account of the settlement of Mexico’s Mexicali Valley; the escape and subsequent recapture of the Colorado River in the early 1900s; the shattering of a made-in-the-U.S.A. hacienda; and the settlement of an international dispute over the river’s saltiness. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/18.21/download-entire-issue

Ditch riders on Wyoming’s Wind River Reservation work with an aged, deteriorated system, very rough measuring means, and farmers who are quick to assume that they are being shorted. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/18.20/download-entire-issue

North Dakota’s Garrison Project would irrigate hundreds of thousands of acres, cost about $1 million per farm, devastate wildlife habitat, and add only a tiny fraction to the state’s farmland. But the project would also reassure a remote, hurting and suspicious part of America. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/18.20/download-entire-issue

Today, the Missouri River has been transformed, but residents of the northern plains still struggle with the question of how to use its water. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/18.20/download-entire-issue

America can’t keep its hands off its rivers. In the Columbia and Colorado basins, the damming and diverting has produced new economic bases, enormous amounts of irrigated desert lands and green cities in what was desert. But the transformation of the long, wide, muddy Missouri has had little effect on the region. Download entire issue […]

High mountain-streams don’t have dams, but they do have loggers, and the mud spawned by roading and logging in Idaho can be as deadly to salmon reproduction as the highest concrete dam. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/18.19/download-entire-issue

The Northwest Power Planning Council balances the giant, pro-kilowatt Bonneville Power Administration, and may serve as a model for the West in its search for a regional way to deal with resource questions now dominated by the federal government. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/18.19/download-entire-issue