The debate has heated up in Montana over whether Champion International should be allowed to discharge treated wastewater year-round from its Frenchtown pulp mill into the Clark Fork River. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/18.3/download-entire-issue
A Montana river is pitted against 700 jobs
Posted inFebruary 17, 1986: Wolves make a comeback in the West
A feudal mentality holds back the West
Unless the trashing and privatization stops, the intermountain Rockies will never escape their feudal social and economic situation. Those who now control the land and the land managers don’t have a glimmer of how to lead the region out of its downward slide. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/18.3/download-entire-issue
Posted inFebruary 17, 1986: Wolves make a comeback in the West
Wolves return to Montana
Gone from the West for almost 50 years, wolves recently crossed the Canadian border to colonize Montana’s Northern Rockies. Up to 20 wolves are spending this winter in Glacier National Park; by spring, the pack could number 40. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/18.3/download-entire-issue
Posted inFebruary 3, 1986: Leadville's poisoned past ... and present
Mountain goats are up against the wall
Increased public access to mountain areas has brought increased sport hunting and poaching, which biologists now realize was heavier at first than many mountain goat populations could withstand. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/18.2/download-entire-issue
Posted inFebruary 3, 1986: Leadville's poisoned past ... and present
Leadville’s old mines are suppurating sores
Although the mines around Leadville, Colo., have closed, acid mine drainage continues to sicken the Arkansas River. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/18.2/download-entire-issue
Posted inFebruary 3, 1986: Leadville's poisoned past ... and present
Environmental leaders stand up for orthodoxy
Things are grim if you identify the vigor of the environmental movement with the major groups — but they are not the movement. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/18.2/download-entire-issue
Posted inJanuary 20, 1986: The 'eternal silence' is shattered
The West’s energy dominoes came crashing down
Dropping oil prices ripple through the West. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/18.1/download-entire-issue
Posted inJanuary 20, 1986: The 'eternal silence' is shattered
Conservationists spent much of 1985 fighting roading and logging
Wilderness legislation in 1984 that protected millions of acres of new wilderness also opened millions of acres to new roading and logging. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/18.1/download-entire-issue
Posted inJanuary 20, 1986: The 'eternal silence' is shattered
The ‘eternal silence’ is shattered
Tourist planes, helicopters and military aircraft make it hard to find peace and quiet in the Grand Canyon. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/18.1/download-entire-issue
Posted inJanuary 20, 1986: The 'eternal silence' is shattered
1985 Index
See a list of all High Country News articles published in 1985, categorized by subject. Click link to view PDF. This article appeared in the print edition of the magazine with the headline 1985 Index.
Posted inDecember 23, 1985: High Noon in Washington, D.C.
A rancher argues cattle grazing helps everyone
Many people misunderstand the role of the rancher who grazes cattle or sheep on public land. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/17.24/download-entire-issue
Posted inDecember 23, 1985: High Noon in Washington, D.C.
Wildlife is preyed on by cattle and sheep
The desert grasslands of southern Idaho once supported a vast population of antelope, buffalo, deer, elk, moose, grizzly bear and wolves before settlers moved in during the 1840s. Where is all the wildlife today? Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/17.24/download-entire-issue
Posted inDecember 23, 1985: High Noon in Washington, D.C.
Montana looks askance at a Wyoming project
Wyoming proposes to build a $49 million dam on the Middle Fork of the Powder River. Downstream, Montana agriculturalists who rely heavily on the river for irrigation worry that the dam will cause their already marginal water to deteriorate further. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/17.24/download-entire-issue
Posted inDecember 23, 1985: High Noon in Washington, D.C.
BLM’s grazing program is a national scandal
A mere 2 percent of the nation’s cattle are consuming the Western public lands that belong to all Americans. So abused are these lands that many millions of acres are only one-tenth as productive as in pre-settlement times. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/17.24/download-entire-issue
Posted inDecember 23, 1985: High Noon in Washington, D.C.
High Noon in Washington, D.C.
After a year of negotiation between cattle growers, nine national conservation organizations and congressional aides, no compromise was reached on the controversial issue of fees for livestock grazing on public land. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/17.24/download-entire-issue
Posted inDecember 9, 1985: Sierra Club wins water lawsuit
The Park Service fights a garbage dump
In Colorado, a garbage dump is proposed next to Florissant Fossil Beds National Monument. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/17.23/download-entire-issue
Posted inDecember 9, 1985: Sierra Club wins water lawsuit
The life and death of Rocky Mountain towns
Sadly for both the towns and for progressive editors, the times are changing much faster in these towns than the local cultures. It is highly unlikely that these cultures can adapt, even though their survival is at stake. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/17.23/download-entire-issue
Posted inDecember 9, 1985: Sierra Club wins water lawsuit
Sierra Club wins water lawsuit
A federal judge has ruled that when Congress creates a wilderness area, it also creates water rights to go with the wilderness. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/17.23/download-entire-issue
Posted inNovember 25, 1985: Tribes struggle for sovereignty and power
Indians breathe life into old treaties
Attorneys for tribes in the arid West have sued for and won millions of acre-feet of water over the past two decades. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/17.22/download-entire-issue
Posted inNovember 25, 1985: Tribes struggle for sovereignty and power
Idaho will negotiate water right with tribes
Far-reaching water negotiations have begun between the state of Idaho and the Shoshone-Bannock tribes over water rights in the Snake River Basin. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/17.22/download-entire-issue