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
The economics of logging will shape Idaho wildlands
Posted inMay 13, 1985: Mining may come to a wilderness
Mining may come to a wilderness
Taking advantage of the 1872 Mining Law and the exemption in the Wilderness Act, U.S. Borax and the American Smelting and Refining Company want to mine in Montana’s Cabinet Mountains. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/17.9/download-entire-issue
Posted inApril 29, 1985: A financial buccaneer and his resort come to Idaho's Priest Lake
Llamas step softly and carry big packs
The Forest Service district office in Boulder, Colo., has invited back one of its most productive summer employees: Julio, a five-year-old, chocolate brown llama. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/17.8/download-entire-issue
Posted inApril 29, 1985: A financial buccaneer and his resort come to Idaho's Priest Lake
A financial buccaneer and his resort come to Idaho’s Priest Lake
Priest Lake’s future is tangled in a web of money-making through the doings and undoings of British financier Sir James Goldsmith. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/17.8/download-entire-issue
Posted inApril 15, 1985: Peaches and apples roar back
Idaho will further dewater the Snake River
The ratification of the Snake River Water Agreement sets off an adjudication of water rights on the Snake River. It’s expected to take 10 years to determine how much unappropriated water remains to be diverted. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/17.7/download-entire-issue
Posted inApril 15, 1985: Peaches and apples roar back
Grand Junction ran a high gold fever
The people living through western Colorado’s energy boom and bust over the last five years are still bewildered. Most say it was a period of heady euphoria followed by thousands of personal tragedies that stunned the region. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/17.7/download-entire-issue
Posted inApril 15, 1985: Peaches and apples roar back
A Montana rancher struggles against stripmines and an unravelling rural fabric
Since the late 1800s when Patty Kluver’s ancestors and thousands of other pioneer families established ranches across the West, there have been few real changes in that way of life. Now the region is convulsed by change. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/17.7/download-entire-issue
Posted inApril 15, 1985: Peaches and apples roar back
Peaches and apples roar back
In the wake of the collapse of the early 1980s oil shale boom in and around Palisade, Colo., fruitgrowing is one of the few games in town. (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/17.7/download-entire-issue) This article appeared […]
Posted inApril 1, 1985: A New Mexico uranium town wonders how far it will fall
Three states sue DOE on the nuclear dump issue
Washington has sued the U.S. Department of Energy over the federal government’s proposed study of the Hanford Nuclear Reservation for siting of a high-level nuclear waste repository, adding to actions by Nevada and Texas against similar proposals for those states. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/17.6/download-entire-issue
Posted inApril 1, 1985: A New Mexico uranium town wonders how far it will fall
Indians and environmentalists drift apart
The Navajo Tribe’s decision to build another mammoth coal-fired plant in the Four Corners area is a hard blow to what has been a natural alliance. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/17.6/download-entire-issue
Posted inApril 1, 1985: A New Mexico uranium town wonders how far it will fall
A New Mexico uranium town wonders how far it will fall
Grants Pass, N.M., was a thriving town built on the uranium boom that peaked in 1980. But in the wake of the uranium bust, businesses are hurting and unemployment has hit 25 percent. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/17.6/download-entire-issue
Posted inMarch 18, 1985: A busted Wyoming mining town remains haunted by 550 lost jobs
Utahns try to bury Canyonlands dump
The Department of Energy has run into stiff opposition to its plans for siting the nation’s first high-level nuclear waste dump at the Davis and Lavender Canyon sites a mile from Canyonlands National Park. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/17.5/download-entire-issue
Posted inMarch 18, 1985: A busted Wyoming mining town remains haunted by 550 lost jobs
Critics say U.S. Steel is running its Provo, Utah, mill into the ground
Although U.S. Steel denies it, the firm is shutting down the immense Geneva mill step by step, even as it wrings millions in profits out of it and the workers it plans to layoff. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/17.5/download-entire-issue
Posted inMarch 18, 1985: A busted Wyoming mining town remains haunted by 550 lost jobs
A busted Wyoming mining town remains haunted by 550 lost jobs
Lander, Wyo., is still reeling from U.S. Steel’s decision last April to permanently close its Atlantic City iron ore mine. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/17.5/download-entire-issue
Posted inMarch 4, 1985: The West as military target
Good dog, bad dog
If dogs were totally incompatible with wilderness living, our ancestors wouldn’t have bothered having them around back in the days before concrete and the Gross National Product. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/17.4/download-entire-issue
Posted inMarch 4, 1985: The West as military target
Look at the forest as well as the trees
A court decision could force the Forest Service to do comprehensive, cumulative studies on the effects of roads built into roadless areas. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/17.4/download-entire-issue
Posted inMarch 4, 1985: The West as military target
A concentration camp was Wyoming’s third largest city
During World War II, 11,000 American and Japanese-born men, women and children were detained at Heart Mountain. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/17.4/download-entire-issue
Posted inMarch 4, 1985: The West as military target
The West is being drafted
The Navy and Air Force are planning to convert 8,500 square miles of public air space in Nevada into a supersonic jet training area. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/17.4/download-entire-issue
Posted inFebruary 18, 1985: The boom is back in southwestern Wyoming
A proposed 35-million-acre land swap is shrouded in confusion
Some conservationists think the land swap is designed to benefit mining and drilling companies. But industry, perhaps because it’s been burned by earlier administration initiatives, is not speaking strongly in support. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/17.3/download-entire-issue
Posted inFebruary 18, 1985: The boom is back in southwestern Wyoming
Rock Springs has travelled the boom-bust road before
The existence of Rock Springs, Wyo., is dependent upon economic waves, tied largely to the presence (or in the case of busts, the absence) of large corporations. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/17.3/download-entire-issue