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
How to articulate the delight?
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
Posted inJuly 22, 1985: Bailing out a National Monument in New Mexico
The West learns to live with wood stoves
Only a few short years ago residents of Missoula, Montana, scoffed at the thought that wood-burning stoves and fireplaces — not industry — were the primary cause of the city’s suffocating bouts of winter air pollution. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/17.14/download-entire-issue
Posted inJuly 22, 1985: Bailing out a National Monument in New Mexico
Bailing out a National Monument in New Mexico
Heavy runoff has overflowed the Cochiti Reservoir, threatening the Anasazi ruins and wildlife of Bandelier National Monument. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/17.14/download-entire-issue
Posted inJuly 8, 1985: A fruitgrower falls prey to his poisonous sprays
The Grand Canyon is filled — with noise
The mechanized world of the late 20th century is intruding in an unexpected way in the wilderness of Grand Canyon National Park. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/17.13/download-entire-issue
Posted inJuly 8, 1985: A fruitgrower falls prey to his poisonous sprays
A fruitgrower falls prey to his poisonous sprays
Fruitgrowers in the North Fork Valley in Delta County, Colo., wake up to the dangerous health effects of pesticides. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/17.13/download-entire-issue
Posted inJuly 8, 1985: A fruitgrower falls prey to his poisonous sprays
1080 may hasten the sheep industry’s death
If compound 1080 again comes into wide use, the inevitable abuses that will follow could mean the end of livestock grazing on public lands. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/17.13/download-entire-issue
Posted inJune 24, 1985: Murky language lands an EIS in deep water
Idaho forests to get $1.3 billion in roads
Northern Idaho’s three National Forests plan to build 16,570 miles of new roads over the next 45 years. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/17.12/download-entire-issue
Posted inJune 24, 1985: Murky language lands an EIS in deep water
Murky language lands an EIS in deep water
If a court ruling holds up, federal bureaucrats may have to re-think how they write Environmental Impact Statements. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/17.12/download-entire-issue
Posted inJune 24, 1985: Murky language lands an EIS in deep water
Arizona farmers get a reprieve as CAP water makes its debut
In an area stressed by groundwater depletion, farmers and politicians watch as the first trickle of Central Arizona Project water flows. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/17.12/download-entire-issue
Posted inJune 10, 1985: The Endangered Species Act is thus far a glass hammer
What do grizzly bear watchers, outfitters and researchers have in common? Not much.
Everyone agrees the bear should be saved. The question has been and continues to be: how? Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/17.11/download-entire-issue
Posted inJune 10, 1985: The Endangered Species Act is thus far a glass hammer
Congress wasn’t thinking of the earth’s humbler creatures when it passed this law
The Endangered Species Act runs into Western water law as the tiny Colorado squawfish, humpback chub and the ponytail chub thwart dams in the Colorado River basin. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/17.11/download-entire-issue
Posted inJune 10, 1985: The Endangered Species Act is thus far a glass hammer
A rare and tiny ferret points to the nation’s muddled approach to endangered species
Although a black-footed ferret recovery effort in Wyoming has scored successes, progress toward captive breeding has been rocky and slow. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/17.11/download-entire-issue
Posted inMay 27, 1985: Wilderness: It ain't what you think
Wilderness management’s time has come
Although hundreds of wilderness areas have been created, few are actually managed according to the spirit of the Wilderness Act. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/17.10/download-entire-issue
Posted inMay 27, 1985: Wilderness: It ain't what you think
Can wilderness be saved from Vibram soles?
Trends in visitor use, lackadaisical management, shoestring funding levels and political motivations have all contributed to a failure to control overuse. To read the full text, click on the “View a PDF from the original” link below (shorter download), or download a PDF of the entire issue: http://www.hcn.org/issues/17.10/download-entire-issue This article appeared in the print edition […]
Posted inMay 27, 1985: Wilderness: It ain't what you think
Idaho’s River of No Return Wilderness: Jetboats, planes are the rule here
Holes within the Frank Church-River of No Return Wilderness mean heavily used exceptions to the Wilderness Act. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/17.10/download-entire-issue This article appeared in the print edition of the magazine with the headline Idaho’s River of No Return Wilderness: Jetboats, planes are the rule here.
Posted inMay 13, 1985: Mining may come to a wilderness
The Montana Legislature gave coal a break
Montana’s coal severance tax may still be the highest in the nation at 30 percent, but a portion of that environmental insurance was chipped away during the 1985 Montana Legislature. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/17.9/download-entire-issue
Posted inMay 13, 1985: Mining may come to a wilderness
The economics of logging will shape Idaho wildlands
The recent decline in Idaho’s wood-products industry helps explain why the industry and the Idaho congressional delegation led by Republican Sen. James McClure have fought so fiercely against additional wilderness. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/17.9/download-entire-issue