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
The West’s tailings mess becomes a legal mess
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
Posted inJuly 9, 1984: Can Edward Abbey learn to love Glen Canyon Dam?
The rancher-environmentalist feuding should end
I ask my fellow environmentalists to think and investigate before they make sweeping condemnations of ranchers; and ranchers to be similarly understanding with environmentalists. We have much more in common that most of us know. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/16.13/download-entire-issue
Posted inJuly 9, 1984: Can Edward Abbey learn to love Glen Canyon Dam?
Can Edward Abbey learn to love Glen Canyon Dam?
Tom Gambler, a career Bureau of Reclamation man, wants to show writer Edward Abbey through Glen Canyon Dam. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/16.13/download-entire-issue
Posted inJune 25, 1984: Geology of the West
The West was formed by clashing crustal plates
Today’s Rocky Mountains are relatively recent, having sprung up 100 to 50 million years ago by dint of clashing crustal plates. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/16.12/download-entire-issue
Posted inJune 25, 1984: Geology of the West
The Henry Mountains are biological island in a sea of desert badlands
In this remote range, one can see eagles soar, mountain lions wander, and the nation’s largest wild bison herd graze on alpine grasslands. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/16.12/download-entire-issue
Posted inJune 25, 1984: Geology of the West
Stagecoach Dam is almost driven out
In Steamboat Springs, Colo., a proposed small reservoir was almost defeated by a coalition of ranchers, businessmen and consumer activists. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/16.12/download-entire-issue
Posted inJune 25, 1984: Geology of the West
Idaho’s Great Rift is a huge blotter that swallows all streams and rivers
Out across a sea of lava now hardened into shining basalt, a line of low volcanoes and spatter cones mark Idaho’s Great Rift. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/16.12/download-entire-issue
Posted inJune 11, 1984: The Big Dam Era on the Colorado River enters a new stage
Wilderness fight leads to symbolic hanging
Three members of a grassroots environmental group in south-central Utah were hanged in effigy last month in the town of Escalante. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/16.11/download-entire-issue
Posted inJune 11, 1984: The Big Dam Era on the Colorado River enters a new stage
Critics say feds are energy ‘gluttons’
According to a recent Government Accounting Office report, the Reagan administration is squandering more than $700 million annually by ignoring efficiency standards designed to control federal government energy consumption. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/16.11/download-entire-issue
Posted inJune 11, 1984: The Big Dam Era on the Colorado River enters a new stage
A critic profanes the West’s water gospel
Does it make sense for Colorado to develop its legal entitlement of the waters of the Colorado River to grow low-value crops like alfalfa? The federal investment in the Animas-La Plata would be over a million dollars per farm. Can such an investment rationally be justified? Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/16.11/download-entire-issue
Posted inJune 11, 1984: The Big Dam Era on the Colorado River enters a new stage
The Big Dam Era on the Colorado River enters a new stage
A potential legal and physical reworking of the Colorado River could reshape it as much as did the 1956 Colorado River Storage Project Act, which authorized Glen Canyon Dam and others. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/16.11/download-entire-issue
Posted inMay 28, 1984: Utah Governor declares war on a Canyonlands nuclear dump
The Forest Service’s backcountry workers demand higher pay, better treatment
Backcountry workers have long been dissatisfied by the fact that they are on the ground, doing the actual work and dealing with the public, while their status and job security within the Forest Service is low to non-existent. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/16.10/download-entire-issue
Posted inMay 28, 1984: Utah Governor declares war on a Canyonlands nuclear dump
Kootenai Falls decision is different
A Federal Energy Regulatory Commission judge makes a startling decision to reject Montana’s Kootenai Falls Project in favor of preserving the falls in their natural state. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/16.10/download-entire-issue