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
The West seesaws on slowing growth
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
Posted inMarch 3, 1986: In defense of running cows on the public's land
In defense of running cows on the public’s land
Utah rancher Cecil Garland says we can learn from the damage down by livestock, and correct it while moving into a future that includes grazing on public lands. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/18.4/download-entire-issue
Posted inFebruary 17, 1986: Wolves make a comeback in the West
The BLM closes access to 75,000 acres of wilderness
The public has lost the only practicable, two-wheel-drive access to Western Colorado’s 75,000-acre Dominguez Wilderness Study Area managed by the Bureau of Land Management. 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
A Montana river is pitted against 700 jobs
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
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