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
Montana fears Wyoming’s ‘water shovel’
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
Posted inOctober 29, 1984: Is Colorado River water for sale?
After the hoe, what is the best weed killer?
To look at weed and pest control issues, the Institute of the Rockies arranged 17 forums in Montana, Idaho, Washington and Oregon. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/16.20/download-entire-issue
Posted inOctober 29, 1984: Is Colorado River water for sale?
Wyoming’s Senator Alan Simpson literally towers above his colleagues
… but it’s too early to say whether he towers over his peers either in terms of accomplishments and influence on the Environment Committee. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/16.20/download-entire-issue
Posted inOctober 29, 1984: Is Colorado River water for sale?
Is Colorado River water for sale?
The Central Arizona Project is at least a year away from watering lawns, golf courses and crops in the Phoenix area. But the multibillion-dollar diversion of water out of the Colorado River is already rearranging the way water is viewed in the West. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/16.20/download-entire-issue
Posted inOctober 15, 1984: America debates and litigates the future of its forests
The search for a true multiple use approach continues to challenge the Forest Service
Are Forest Service inventories today any more accurate, even-handed and comprehensive than they were a decade ago? Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/16.19/download-entire-issue
Posted inOctober 15, 1984: America debates and litigates the future of its forests
A timber man attacks deficit sales
Walter Minnick does not sound like the president of a $100 million a year international timber products industry. The Idaho businessman argues for more wilderness, an end to federal subsidies for logging road construction and increased development of the backcountry recreation industry to replace closed mills. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/16.19/download-entire-issue
Posted inOctober 15, 1984: America debates and litigates the future of its forests
The courts are now the forum for resolving forest disputes
The battle against the Forest Service’s timber practices is a dispersed guerilla war, fought on local fronts through numerous, sophisticated lawsuits. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/16.19/download-entire-issue
Posted inOctober 1, 1984: A Western tradition ends with a conference on America's parks
Cities want wilderness water on tap
To some, the proposed Homestake II Water Diversion Project in Western Colorado is the technological answer to a problem of how to bring water to urban areas. To others, allowing the project would set a disastrous precedent because the water in question is in the Holy Cross wilderness area. Download entire issue to view this […]
Posted inOctober 1, 1984: A Western tradition ends with a conference on America's parks
Agency locks horns with Montana Power
The Public Service Commission’s denial of Montana Power Company’s $92 million rate increase may be the least of the utility’s problems. Buried in the back of the commission’s harsh, accusing 120-page decision is a clear sign that the PSC may never let MPC sell Colstrip’s power to its customers. Download entire issue to view this […]
Posted inSeptember 17, 1984: The Garrison Diversion Project is North Dakota's history, and destiny
Poachers’ pride leads to arrests
Two Cheyenne, Wyo., bow-hunters committed several blunders when they shot a bull moose last December. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/16.17/download-entire-issue
Posted inSeptember 17, 1984: The Garrison Diversion Project is North Dakota's history, and destiny
The wolf is on the edge of extinction
Some 80 years after sponsoring an all-out program to destroy wolves, the Interior Department is seeking ways to rescue northern Rocky Mountain wolves from near extinction. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/16.17/download-entire-issue
Posted inSeptember 17, 1984: The Garrison Diversion Project is North Dakota's history, and destiny
The Garrison Diversion Project is North Dakota’s history, and destiny
The best way to understand the uproar over the Garrison Diversion is to think of the project as a metaphor for North Dakota’s history and an expression of its psyche. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/16.17/download-entire-issue
Posted inSeptember 3, 1984: Acid rain: The damage it does can be deadly
What do environmentalists really want?
I believe that conservationists — and other public lands users — can and should pay their fair share. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/16.16/download-entire-issue
Posted inSeptember 3, 1984: Acid rain: The damage it does can be deadly
New science appears: voodoo nucleonics
Contractors in charge of safe-guarding the government’s nuclear waste long into the future devise ways to communicate the dangers of nuclear radiation to future civilizations. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/16.16/download-entire-issue
Posted inSeptember 3, 1984: Acid rain: The damage it does can be deadly
The West is not immune to acid rain
Possible adverse effects of acid rain in the West include damage to high mountain lakes, forests and fisheries, the leaching of toxic heavy metals from mine and mill wastes into public drinking water supplies, and the deterioration of archaeological ruins. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/16.16/download-entire-issue
Posted inSeptember 3, 1984: Acid rain: The damage it does can be deadly
Acid rain: The damage it does can be deadly
Like the shape and size of an iceberg, most of the acid rain problem is thus far unknown or out of sight. But what can be seen suggests that it could become an historic issue. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/16.16/download-entire-issue