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
The rancher-environmentalist feuding should end
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
Posted inMay 28, 1984: Utah Governor declares war on a Canyonlands nuclear dump
Utah Governor declares war on a Canyonlands nuclear dump
Utah Governor Scott Matheson flatly opposes the Department of Energy’s proposal to bury high-level nuclear wastes just outside Canyonlands National Park. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/16.10/download-entire-issue
Posted inMay 14, 1984: A stripmine clashes with an ancient Anasazi ruin
Taking the broad geographical view
Tom Bell reflects on HCN’s move from Lander, Wyo. to Paonia, Colo., saying that HCN is a useful voice, still needed, wherever it’s situated. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/16.9/download-entire-issue
Posted inMay 14, 1984: A stripmine clashes with an ancient Anasazi ruin
Salt Lake could pickle its surroundings
The Great Salt Lake continues to rise inexorably, possibly to a new high in recorded history. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/16.9/download-entire-issue
Posted inMay 14, 1984: A stripmine clashes with an ancient Anasazi ruin
A coal miner takes on the safety bureaucracy
Pat Conkle, a former Paonia, Colo. coal miner, has succeeded in forcing the Mine Safety and Health Administration to defend itself before the House Safety and Health Subcommittee. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/16.9/download-entire-issue
Posted inMay 14, 1984: A stripmine clashes with an ancient Anasazi ruin
A stripmine clashes with an ancient Anasazi ruin
The Chimney Rock Coal Company wants to mine a Forest Service site in southwestern Colorado that’s home to well-preserved Anasazi ruins. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/16.9/download-entire-issue
Posted inApril 30, 1984: Can the West swim upstream to jobs and happiness?
Yoo-hooing our way to decline
Especially in the West — where independence and conservatism are an authentic part of the regional consciousness — we all understand the hypocritical and ultimately destructive nature of the cargo cult and pork barrel approaches. But we have been able to pretend we do not really understand what is happening. Download entire issue to view […]
Posted inApril 30, 1984: Can the West swim upstream to jobs and happiness?
Phoenix works to turn a Salt River floodplain into a billion-dollar development
A prime example of Arizona’s ambitious plans for Central Arizona Project water is the Rio Salado project in Phoenix, a 20,000 acre development slated for a worthless, debris-filled floodplain on the Salt River. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/16.8/download-entire-issue
Posted inApril 30, 1984: Can the West swim upstream to jobs and happiness?
Solar energy is about life rather than lifestyle in the San Luis Valley
A practical homesteading couple spreads their enthusiasm for solar energy through the non-profit group they founded, People’s Alternative Energy Services. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/16.8/download-entire-issue