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
A timber man attacks deficit sales
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
Posted inAugust 6, 1984: The national forests are cooking
Drill rigs eye Montana Front
Montana’s rugged Rocky Mountain Front sees first attempts at major drilling. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/16.15/download-entire-issue
Posted inAugust 6, 1984: The national forests are cooking
The West’s tailings mess becomes a legal mess
At sites throughout the West, Department of Energy contractors are scurrying to remove uranium tailings from buildings and lots where they have been sitting for 20 years or more. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/16.15/download-entire-issue
Posted inAugust 6, 1984: The national forests are cooking
Colorado’s civil war pits East against West
Fruit growers, cattle ranchers and energy and tourist industries have sued about transmountain diversion for a half century. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/16.15/download-entire-issue
Posted inAugust 6, 1984: The national forests are cooking
The national forests are cooking
Louisiana-Pacific will soon have two aspen flakeboard plants on line in western Colorado, raising questions about “multiple use” forest management. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/16.15/download-entire-issue
Posted inJuly 23, 1984: Grazing in the West
A grazing guru says he can restore the range by doubling the number of cattle
Allan Savory is the guru of a new kind of livestock grazing, anxious to tell the world that many of the present ‘truths’ about range management are not only wrong and contributing to the economic collapse of ranching, but steering the world to the precipice of environmental disaster. Download entire issue to view this article: […]
Posted inJuly 23, 1984: Grazing in the West
The Grazing Act brought order to the range
The 1934 Taylor Grazing Act brought order to the Old West: grazing districts, advisory boards, government-subsidized stock ponds, reservoirs and fences, and more. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/16.14/download-entire-issue
Posted inJuly 23, 1984: Grazing in the West
Cattle are also at home in the National Parks
Livestock grazing has been grandfathered in at twenty National Park units in the West, including Grand Teton in Wyoming. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/16.14/download-entire-issue
Posted inJuly 23, 1984: Grazing in the West
The BLM is pressed by two factions
The Bureau took notice of the rebellion, which was an attempt to get the Congress of the courts to transfer BLM land to state ownership. “Even before Watt took over, the Bureau reacted to the Sagebrush Rebels. They cut back on attempts to make changes. I think they believed that if there were a legislative […]
Posted inJuly 9, 1984: Can Edward Abbey learn to love Glen Canyon Dam?
The BLM’s wilderness policies are probed by a skeptical Congressional committee
Conservationists arrive in Washington, D.C. to tell Congress what has gone wrong in the nationwide wilderness review of public lands administered by the Bureau of Land Management. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/16.13/download-entire-issue