See a list of all High Country News articles published in 1984, categorized by subject. Click link to view PDF. This article appeared in the print edition of the magazine with the headline 1984 Index.
1984 Index
Posted inFebruary 4, 1985: Uranium mines and mills may have caused birth defects among Navajo Indians
Two western forces clash at Jackson Lake
The frailness of Jackson Dam brings two sacred Western forces into conflict: agricultural water rights versus one of America’s most beautiful and popular national parks. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/17.2/download-entire-issue
Posted inFebruary 4, 1985: Uranium mines and mills may have caused birth defects among Navajo Indians
A Western Colorado uranium town is beset by radioactivity and the economy
Layoffs at Umetco Minerals Corp.’s uranium mine in Uravan, Colo., may close the operation before high radiation levels and waste disposal problems do. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/17.2/download-entire-issue
Posted inFebruary 4, 1985: Uranium mines and mills may have caused birth defects among Navajo Indians
Uranium mines and mills may have caused birth defects among Navajo Indians
Down the dusty back roads of the Navajo Nation, scientists are tracking an invisible killer which may be responsible for the maiming of hundreds of Navajo children. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/17.2/download-entire-issue
Posted inJanuary 21, 1985: The Forest Service meets its critics
Saga of a source called Deep Root
An anonymous tipster calling himself Deep Root is tying up phone lines in newsrooms across the country with his message that there is a conspiracy within the Forest Service to build roads in all areas Congress has not designated as wilderness. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/17.1/download-entire-issue
Posted inJanuary 21, 1985: The Forest Service meets its critics
Forest Service survives very well
The Bridger-Teton National Forest personnel is fairly and competently administering this forest according to the will of the people, as expressed by the Congress of the United States. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/17.1/download-entire-issue
Posted inJanuary 21, 1985: The Forest Service meets its critics
The Forest Service meets its critics
Forest Service Chief Max Peterson comes to Casper, Wyo., and San Francisco, Calif., to speak about recreational user fees, logging subsidies and other controversial issues. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/17.1/download-entire-issue
Posted inDecember 24, 1984: Seeing the forest for the trees
What do environmentalists really want?
What this one wants is to live in a time when no one feels the need to use the word “environmentalist.” Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/16.24/download-entire-issue
Posted inDecember 24, 1984: Seeing the forest for the trees
Morley Nelson on the sport of falconry
Morley Nelson has spent much of his 68 years working with raptors and trying to get the rest of us to catch a sense of the inspiration he has derived from these birds. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/16.24/download-entire-issue
Posted inDecember 24, 1984: Seeing the forest for the trees
Seeing the forest for the trees
As forest plans are applied to the National Forests over the next fifty years, how are the forests going to look? Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/16.24/download-entire-issue
Posted inDecember 10, 1984: Is America's Indian policy that of 'starve or sell'?
What do environmentalists really want?
After working as a professional environmentalist for over ten years, I have come to the conclusion that environmentalists don’t know what they want. They certainly know what they don’t want, but what they think they want instead often turns out to be worse than what they’ve got. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/16.23/download-entire-issue
Posted inDecember 10, 1984: Is America's Indian policy that of 'starve or sell'?
Voters seize the initiative on nuclear waste
By an overwhelming 62 percent margin, South Dakota voters passed an initiative that gives the people the “exclusive right” to approve or reject the disposal of all nuclear wastes within the state. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/16.23/download-entire-issue
Posted inDecember 10, 1984: Is America's Indian policy that of 'starve or sell'?
Is America’s Indian policy that of ‘starve or sell’?
To some, the issue with a vetoed Indian health care bill is simply the delivery of health services on and off reservations. But to others it is a possible plot to put the tribes in a position where they must deal away their natural resources at low prices in order to survive. Download entire issue […]
Posted inDecember 10, 1984: Is America's Indian policy that of 'starve or sell'?
Indians will again ask Congress for control of the coal they own
The coal-owning tribes of the West hope to finally escape the regulatory limbo they have been in since passage of the 1977 Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/16.23/download-entire-issue
Posted inNovember 26, 1984: A Guide to the 99th Congress
The 99th Congress will face scores of resource and environmental questions
A look at how the upcoming congress may treat Forest Service logging, BLM grazing, the Clean Air Act and more. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/16.22/download-entire-issue
Posted inNovember 26, 1984: A Guide to the 99th Congress
Montana fears Wyoming’s ‘water shovel’
Wyoming and Montana are apparently approaching gridlock as they try to work out the details of apportioning water from the Yellowstone River Basin under the Yellowstone Compact. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/16.22/download-entire-issue
Posted inNovember 26, 1984: A Guide to the 99th Congress
In the Rocky Mountain West, only Montana withstood the Republican riptide
… plus election results from other Western states. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/16.22/download-entire-issue
Posted inNovember 12, 1984: Fierce beauty devoid of economic advantage
Jackson Hole tries its hand at forest management
The question of Forest Service intentions has arisen most starkly on the Bridger-Teton National Forests, where the value of timber, oil and gas are dwarfed by recreation. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/16.21/download-entire-issue
Posted inNovember 12, 1984: Fierce beauty devoid of economic advantage
Fierce beauty devoid of economic advantage
One of the curious paradoxes of the American experience is that many of those who live in closest proximity to wilderness exhibit the greatest contempt for it. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/16.21/download-entire-issue
Posted inNovember 12, 1984: Fierce beauty devoid of economic advantage
Can the Forest Service survive?
Several months ago, we asked: Can the Forest Service be reformed? Now, after seeing that the agency can’t even get along with the Wyoming delegation, we ask: Can the Forest Service survive? Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/16.21/download-entire-issue