One of the most controversial areas where special management or national recreation area status is proposed is along the Rocky Mountain Front, a nearly 450,000-acre roadless area adjacent to the Bob Marshall Wilderness. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/17.21/download-entire-issue
A Montana wilderness bill grinds its way through Congress
Posted inOctober 28, 1985: The fully operational MX missile
Last Stand for the Colorado Plateau, Part 2
An effort to create wilderness in the La Sal Mountains near Moab, Utah, highlights infighting between the state’s conservation groups. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/17.20/download-entire-issue
Posted inOctober 28, 1985: The fully operational MX missile
A BLM employee’s cry of rage
Sometimes it seems that the BLM purposely chooses the worst possible field management, or no management whatsoever, in an attempt to attract public attention. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/17.20/download-entire-issue
Posted inOctober 28, 1985: The fully operational MX missile
The fully operational MX missile
The U.S. Air Force will soon deploy the first operational MX nuclear missile near Cheyenne, Wyo. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/17.20/download-entire-issue
Posted inOctober 14, 1985: Last stand for the Colorado Plateau
Few mourn demise of great land swap
The gigantic land swap proposed by the U.S. Forest Service and the Bureau of Land Management has been buried on Capitol Hill with little chance of being resurrected. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/17.19/download-entire-issue
Posted inOctober 14, 1985: Last stand for the Colorado Plateau
Last stand for the Colorado Plateau, Part 1
Half of Utah — and the vast majority of its BLM wilderness candidates — lies in the hotly contested and spectacular Colorado Plateau. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/17.19/download-entire-issue
Posted inOctober 14, 1985: Last stand for the Colorado Plateau
Exxon Corporation has put the boom back in Wyoming
Exxon’s construction of one of the largest natural gas processing plants in North America has arrived in southwest Wyoming, bringing with it a mixture of wealth and dismay. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/17.19/download-entire-issue
Posted inSeptember 30, 1985: Let the brawl begin
Treating forests as if they had souls
Considering the educational priorities of most forestry schools, it is not surprising that our national forests are badly mismanaged as ecosystems. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/17.18/download-entire-issue
Posted inSeptember 30, 1985: Let the brawl begin
Trappers Lake, Arthur Carhart get their due
Trappers Lake in Northwest Colorado’s Flat Top Wilderness has finally been accorded the distinction it deserves as the birthplace of the wilderness concept. And Arthur Carhart, the concept’s father, has finally been given his due. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/17.18/download-entire-issue
Posted inSeptember 30, 1985: Let the brawl begin
Let the brawl begin
For decades, the Missouri River basin has gotten along without interstate water compacts and lawsuits — but now that’s changing. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/17.18/download-entire-issue
Posted inSeptember 16, 1985: Seeing the forest through the eyes of its users
Montana Power wins a big one at Colstrip
The Montana Public Service Commission has reversed an aggressive decision it made in 1984 to deny Montana Power Company a rate increase to fund an expansion of its Colstrip coal-fired power plant. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/17.17/download-entire-issue
Posted inSeptember 16, 1985: Seeing the forest through the eyes of its users
The timber industry is a way of life
The romantic appeal of the logging industry surely adds to the community spirit seen at Horseshoe Bend’s Loggers’ Day in Idaho. But there is another reason logging and millwork have maintained a definite sense of worth: the pay. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/17.17/download-entire-issue
Posted inSeptember 16, 1985: Seeing the forest through the eyes of its users
Cutting the forests down to Jeffersonian size
The small-mill local-market industry has proliferated during this century, in the wake of the tree-mining industry that logged-out the old-growth and moved on. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/17.17/download-entire-issue
Posted inSeptember 16, 1985: Seeing the forest through the eyes of its users
Sawing through to another world
The author recounts his time at a sawmill at Crystal Creek, Colo., a juncture of two worlds: between logs and boards, between trees and what becomes of them. (To read the full text, click on the “View a PDF from the original” link below, or download a PDF of the entire issue: http://www.hcn.org/issues/17.17/download-entire-issue.) This article appeared […]
Posted inAugust 19, 1985: How to articulate the delight?
Forest logging plan squashed from above
The U.S. Department of Agriculture has taken a giant step into the debate over below-cost timber sales in the Rockies and aspen cutting in Colorado. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/17.16/download-entire-issue
Posted inAugust 19, 1985: How to articulate the delight?
Colorado is the Appalachia of the West
At one time, all Western states had a similar approach to water. But Colorado now lags in terms of building the public interest into water matters. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/17.16/download-entire-issue
Posted inAugust 19, 1985: How to articulate the delight?
How to articulate the delight?
There are simple pleasures in being a fire lookout in Idaho. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/17.16/download-entire-issue
Posted inAugust 5, 1985: The Wilderness Society's outstanding alumni
Will politics doom the ferret?
Endangered species biologist Tim Clark has chosen to occupy a world rife with contradictions, politics and emotion. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/17.15/download-entire-issue
Posted inAugust 5, 1985: The Wilderness Society's outstanding alumni
Canadian mine threatens northern Montana
The Cabin Creek coal-mining project is in British Columbia would excavate open pits about five miles north of the U.S.-Canadian border and just off the North Fork of the Flathead River. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/17.15/download-entire-issue
Posted inAugust 5, 1985: The Wilderness Society's outstanding alumni
The Wilderness Society’s outstanding alumni
Most former staff from the Wilderness Society are still doing grassroots wilderness work in the West. They just aren’t working for the Wilderness Society. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/17.15/download-entire-issue