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
Ranchers ask: Where’s the market?
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
Posted inMay 26, 1986: The fate of the grizzly
Grizzly bears: Thriving or vanishing?
A spring conference called “The fate of the grizzly,” sponsored primarily by the University of Colorado Environmental Center, brought together critics of the federal bureaucracy involved in Yellowstone National Park, plus a few of the bureaucrats themselves. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/18.10/download-entire-issue
Posted inApril 15, 1986: BLM privatizes some federal land
The West seesaws on slowing growth
It’s difficult to find a Western city where the fight between developers and controlled growth advocates is not a central issue in local politics. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/18.7/download-entire-issue
Posted inApril 15, 1986: BLM privatizes some federal land
Reserve your condo now at the Stapleton Airport
An enterprising reporter has uncovered the secret of low air fares out of Stapleton Airport. Airlines are indeed losing money on each ticket sold. But they are simultaneously raking in enormous commissions from parking lots, news stands, food dispensers and bars. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/18.7/download-entire-issue
Posted inApril 15, 1986: BLM privatizes some federal land
BLM privatizes some federal land
Despite pleadings to the contrary by federal appraisers, the Nevada district director for the Bureau of Land Management and his superiors in Washington, D.C., have approved a controversial sale of public land. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/18.7/download-entire-issue
Posted inApril 1, 1986: A still-wild chunk of America is vulnerable to development
This race of lemmings built power plants
Electrical utilities, water agencies, gas companies, nuclear reactor builders and multinational oil giants all share a volatile and difficult future. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/18.6/download-entire-issue
Posted inApril 1, 1986: A still-wild chunk of America is vulnerable to development
Oil men stake out the Rocky Mountain Front
Controversy over oil and gas development in a pristine area of the northern Rockies in Montana is heating up. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/18.6/download-entire-issue
Posted inApril 1, 1986: A still-wild chunk of America is vulnerable to development
A still-wild chunk of America is vulnerable to development
When lumped together, Glacier National Park and the nearby Bob Marshall Wilderness are at the hub of one of the West’s largest wild areas. Yet they face mining, logging and other threats. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/18.6/download-entire-issue
Posted inApril 1, 1986: A still-wild chunk of America is vulnerable to development
A feisty, true-grit breed in Montana
One thing Northwest Montana conservationists share with their counterparts elsewhere is an inordinate fondness for paper: legal briefs, affidavits and reams of memos. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/18.6/download-entire-issue
Posted inMarch 18, 1986: Nevada debates the virtues of wilderness
Fishing bridge must be destroyed
Since 1976, biologists have attributed 90 percent of Yellowstone National Park’s grizzly bear mortality to Fishing Bridge, which contains a 308-unit campground and a 358-unit recreational vehicle park. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/18.5/download-entire-issue
Posted inMarch 18, 1986: Nevada debates the virtues of wilderness
Conferees chop at below-cost timber sales
Industry, environmentalists, university and Forest Service representatives met in Spokane, Wash., to hash out arguments for and against below-cost timber sales. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/18.5/download-entire-issue
Posted inMarch 18, 1986: Nevada debates the virtues of wilderness
Nevada debates the virtues of wilderness
In Nevada, the only Western state without Forest Service wilderness, Congress has finally begun to examine mountain ranges for potential wilderness. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/18.5/download-entire-issue
Posted inMarch 18, 1986: Nevada debates the virtues of wilderness
Sagebrush Rebellion has been crushed
Gov. Bruce Babbitt, D-AZ, and a possible presidential aspirant, declared the Sagebrush Rebellion “utterly dead, buried and forgotten.” To read this article, click the “View a PDF from the original” link below. This article appeared in the print edition of the magazine with the headline Sagebrush Rebellion has been crushed.
Posted inMarch 3, 1986: In defense of running cows on the public's land
Utah: A heavy EIS but little wilderness
After studying nearly 22 million acres of the most rugged, remote and spectacular landscape in the nation, Bureau of Land Management found 1.9 million acres worth preserving as wilderness. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/18.4/download-entire-issue
Posted inMarch 3, 1986: In defense of running cows on the public's land
A frugal desert creature is in deep trouble
There are no mysteries in the story of the demise of the desert tortoise. They are the same factors that have led to the demise of the Southwest itself. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/18.4/download-entire-issue