The Navajo Tribe’s decision to build another mammoth coal-fired plant in the Four Corners area is a hard blow to what has been a natural alliance. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/17.6/download-entire-issue
Indians and environmentalists drift apart
Posted inApril 1, 1985: A New Mexico uranium town wonders how far it will fall
A New Mexico uranium town wonders how far it will fall
Grants Pass, N.M., was a thriving town built on the uranium boom that peaked in 1980. But in the wake of the uranium bust, businesses are hurting and unemployment has hit 25 percent. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/17.6/download-entire-issue
Posted inMarch 18, 1985: A busted Wyoming mining town remains haunted by 550 lost jobs
Utahns try to bury Canyonlands dump
The Department of Energy has run into stiff opposition to its plans for siting the nation’s first high-level nuclear waste dump at the Davis and Lavender Canyon sites a mile from Canyonlands National Park. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/17.5/download-entire-issue
Posted inMarch 18, 1985: A busted Wyoming mining town remains haunted by 550 lost jobs
Critics say U.S. Steel is running its Provo, Utah, mill into the ground
Although U.S. Steel denies it, the firm is shutting down the immense Geneva mill step by step, even as it wrings millions in profits out of it and the workers it plans to layoff. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/17.5/download-entire-issue
Posted inMarch 18, 1985: A busted Wyoming mining town remains haunted by 550 lost jobs
A busted Wyoming mining town remains haunted by 550 lost jobs
Lander, Wyo., is still reeling from U.S. Steel’s decision last April to permanently close its Atlantic City iron ore mine. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/17.5/download-entire-issue
Posted inMarch 4, 1985: The West as military target
Good dog, bad dog
If dogs were totally incompatible with wilderness living, our ancestors wouldn’t have bothered having them around back in the days before concrete and the Gross National Product. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/17.4/download-entire-issue
Posted inMarch 4, 1985: The West as military target
Look at the forest as well as the trees
A court decision could force the Forest Service to do comprehensive, cumulative studies on the effects of roads built into roadless areas. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/17.4/download-entire-issue
Posted inMarch 4, 1985: The West as military target
A concentration camp was Wyoming’s third largest city
During World War II, 11,000 American and Japanese-born men, women and children were detained at Heart Mountain. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/17.4/download-entire-issue
Posted inMarch 4, 1985: The West as military target
The West is being drafted
The Navy and Air Force are planning to convert 8,500 square miles of public air space in Nevada into a supersonic jet training area. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/17.4/download-entire-issue
Posted inFebruary 18, 1985: The boom is back in southwestern Wyoming
A proposed 35-million-acre land swap is shrouded in confusion
Some conservationists think the land swap is designed to benefit mining and drilling companies. But industry, perhaps because it’s been burned by earlier administration initiatives, is not speaking strongly in support. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/17.3/download-entire-issue
Posted inFebruary 18, 1985: The boom is back in southwestern Wyoming
Rock Springs has travelled the boom-bust road before
The existence of Rock Springs, Wyo., is dependent upon economic waves, tied largely to the presence (or in the case of busts, the absence) of large corporations. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/17.3/download-entire-issue
Posted inFebruary 18, 1985: The boom is back in southwestern Wyoming
The boom is back in southwestern Wyoming
Exxon has announced plans to double the size of its giant Shute Creek gas processing plant already under construction, possibly needing a workforce of 5,000 people. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/17.3/download-entire-issue
Posted inFebruary 18, 1985: The boom is back in southwestern Wyoming
1984 Index
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.
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