“The world is older, bigger and more interesting than we are. Growth is the enemy. Every organism grows to optimum space, then stops.” If it doesn’t, he says, it’s a freak, which means our overblown and overdone technological civilization is headed for a great explosion, followed by collapse. “That’s why I’m an optimist.” Download entire […]
Edward Abbey is an optimist
Posted inSeptember 1, 1986: Ski area proposal goes smash
Canyon flights attract a comment blitz
A Grand Canyon National Park superintendent spent much of this summer sifting advice from the public on how to reduce noise from airplanes and helicopters flying in the 1,900-square mile park. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/18.16/download-entire-issue
Posted inSeptember 1, 1986: Ski area proposal goes smash
The next time your radiator boils over, make soup
If your car is as hot as an oven, use it for one. Give a whirl to the newest summer craze — car cookery. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/18.16/download-entire-issue
Posted inSeptember 1, 1986: Ski area proposal goes smash
Ski area proposal goes smash
The collapse of the Wolf Creek Pass ski resort snares 80 partnerships, 800 investors, $65 million in partnership capital and $170 million in real estate. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/18.16/download-entire-issue
Posted inAugust 18, 1986: Graverobbers, agencies at work sacking an ancient culture
Uranium mining closes in on Grand Canyon
Energy Fuels Nuclear has filed two new proposals for mining in Cataract (Havasu) Canyon. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/18.15/download-entire-issue
Posted inAugust 18, 1986: Graverobbers, agencies at work sacking an ancient culture
The adaptable coyote comes in three temperaments
I’ve come to identify coyotes by the moods they’re in when I see them or by the “lifestyles” they seem to have. First is the hair-trigger-what-the-hell-was-that coyote. Next is the don’t-bother-me-I’m-busy coyote and last is the “sellout,” or as I prefer, the let’s-make-the-best-of-a-good-thing coyote. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/18.15/download-entire-issue
Posted inAugust 18, 1986: Graverobbers, agencies at work sacking an ancient culture
Graverobbers, agencies at work sacking an ancient culture
A federal sting stirs up Blanding, Utah, which lies in one of the richest archaeological regions in the United States. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/18.15/download-entire-issue
Posted inAugust 4, 1986: Gudy Gaskill and some friends build a 480-mile trail
The West’s lakes are safer
Environmental Protection Agency’s decision to close the Phelps Dodge copper smelter in Douglas, Ariz., will reduce acid rain in mountain lakes like those in Wyoming’s Wind River Range. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/18.14/download-entire-issue
Posted inAugust 4, 1986: Gudy Gaskill and some friends build a 480-mile trail
Real reclamation
The choice by Kennecott and Asarco to clean up their smelters early on rather than be pushed out because of pollution shows that reduced livestock and logging industries can also survive — but only if they adapt. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/18.14/download-entire-issue
Posted inAugust 4, 1986: Gudy Gaskill and some friends build a 480-mile trail
Gudy Gaskill and some friends build a 480-mile trail
The Colorado Trail — a Denver to Durango mountain path for hikers, horses and mountain bikes — is being built for a pittance by volunteers after a well-funded professional effort collapsed several years ago. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/18.14/download-entire-issue
Posted inJuly 7, 1986: Taking on the farm banks
L-P breaks through at Union Pass
A high-altitude standoff over construction of a national forest road gave the impression to some that a Pinedale District Ranger took orders from Louisiana-Pacific rather than from his own higher-ups in the Bridger-Teton National Forest. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/18.13/download-entire-issue
Posted inJuly 7, 1986: Taking on the farm banks
The farm banks cut and run
An historic policy change at the Production Credit Associations in recent years came from the highest levels of its bureaucracy, and dictated that the credit system would be saved, whatever the costs to individual farm families. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/18.13/download-entire-issue
Posted inJuly 7, 1986: Taking on the farm banks
Taking on the farm banks
A sheep-ranching family struggles against the Production Credit Association, a bank meant to help farmers but that sometimes appears to turn on them. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/18.13/download-entire-issue
Posted inJune 23, 1986: Where's the market?
Bison versus lawns on Yellowston’s edge
When 64-year-old Donna Spainhower of West Yellowstone, Mont., began feeding a wayward buffalo that wandered out of Yellowstone Park last October, she may have become the only American with a pet buffalo. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/18.12/download-entire-issue
Posted inJune 23, 1986: Where's the market?
Ranchers ask: Where’s the market?
From roughly 1970 through 1985, the beef industry put money and research into improving productivity instead of learning the marketing techniques that would have addressed America’s changing eating habits — and now it’s in trouble. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/18.12/download-entire-issue
Posted inJune 23, 1986: Where's the market?
Get the public off the public lands
Back in 1986, as environmentalists rallied to push ranchers off public land, nobody could have predicted how the issue would finally be resolved. A new movement was born: the most powerful and sweeping ever seen in natural resource management. It was born with the battle cry: “Get the public off public lands.” Download entire issue […]
Posted inJune 9, 1986: The dismal science grabs agriculture by the throat
On playing mouse to a hungry wild cat
The lion now crouched directly in front of the truck, staring at me … Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/18.11/download-entire-issue
Posted inJune 9, 1986: The dismal science grabs agriculture by the throat
Anger, blame, depression
A hearing in March 1986 at the Colorado State Legislature almost ended in a fist fight when an attorney for the Farmers Home Administration supposedly called a farmer “boy.” Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/18.11/download-entire-issue
Posted inJune 9, 1986: The dismal science grabs agriculture by the throat
The land has got to cash flow
Breakdown on the ever-expanding fringes of the farm economy has made long-fixed attitudes and policies about rural America negotiable. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/18.11/download-entire-issue
Posted inMay 26, 1986: The fate of the grizzly
Montana’s fight with Burlington Northern goes on, and on
Hit with rising unemployment and a potential $60 million budget shortfall, Montana faces another economic setback from the state’s only railroad. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/18.10/download-entire-issue