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
Salt Lake could pickle its surroundings
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
Posted inApril 30, 1984: Can the West swim upstream to jobs and happiness?
1983 Index
See a list of all High Country News articles published in 1983, categorized by subject. Click link to view PDF. This article appeared in the print edition of the magazine with the headline 1983 Index.
Posted inApril 16, 1984: The Park Service mission hangs in the balance
Are National Park employees fighting for their parks or against efficiency?
Department of Interior program A-76, which would trim inefficiencies from the National Park Service, is drawing opposition. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/16.7/download-entire-issue
Posted inApril 16, 1984: The Park Service mission hangs in the balance
A cruel Mother Nature rules the Parks
The keystone of the National Park Service’s management policy is to allow nature to run its course. And that means forest fires, drowned bison and, perhaps, vanishing grizzlies. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/16.7/download-entire-issue
Posted inApril 16, 1984: The Park Service mission hangs in the balance
1983 Index
See a list of all High Country News articles published in 1985, categorized by subject. Click link to view PDF. This article appeared in the print edition of the magazine with the headline 1983 Index.
Posted inApril 2, 1984: Oil shale comes on hard times
Industry and government charge environmentalists with bad faith negotiating
An ambitious attempt to create once-and-for-all comprehensive national oil shale legislation has collapsed amidst bitterness and mistrust. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/16.6/download-entire-issue
Posted inApril 2, 1984: Oil shale comes on hard times
A tri-state wilderness area causes strife
A recently released Bureau of Land Management Draft EIS for wilderness within Owyhee Canyonlands in Oregon, Idaho and Nevada has sparked controversy. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/16.6/download-entire-issue
Posted inApril 2, 1984: Oil shale comes on hard times
Union Oil’s Fred Hartley fights Wall Street vultures and conservationists
Fred Hartley is a proud, hard-driving oil company chief executive officer who doesn’t understand why he or Union Oil should have to explain a damn thing to the media or the public. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/16.6/download-entire-issue
Posted inMarch 19, 1984: Foes launch first-strike attack on MX
Nation’s last caribou get federal protection
The last remaining herd of caribou in the lower 48 states, in the Selkirk Mountains of northern Idaho, has been listed as an endangered species by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/16.5/download-entire-issue
Posted inMarch 19, 1984: Foes launch first-strike attack on MX
They live with silos that don’t hold corn
Press attention has centered on what spokesmen on each side of the MX issue are saying. What about the people who literally live next door to the silos where the MX would be placed? Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/16.5/download-entire-issue
Posted inMarch 19, 1984: Foes launch first-strike attack on MX
Foes launch first-strike attack on MX
The MX missile deployment in Nebraska and Wyoming is meeting stepped up opposition, with Colorado pressing to be included in an assessment of regional impacts. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/16.5/download-entire-issue
Posted inMarch 19, 1984: Foes launch first-strike attack on MX
Can the Forest Service be reformed?
We have followed the agency for a decade. The sum total of the positive, constructive things we can say is that there are good people out in the field. And some of them have the courage and ingenuity to do good work despite their superiors. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/16.5/download-entire-issue
Posted inMarch 5, 1984: Linowes Commission raps coal leasing
Utah’s wilderness bill heads for the House
Three years in the making, Utah’s proposed Wilderness Act of 1984 begins its final battle, in the House of Representatives. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/16.4/download-entire-issue
Posted inMarch 5, 1984: Linowes Commission raps coal leasing
The Dolores Project is man’s latest, and most grandiose, attempt to water Montezuma Valley
The Dolores project, centered around the new McPhee Dam, will deliver water to fields and towns, and will also epitomize government spending, manipulation and regulation at their most direct applications. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/16.4/download-entire-issue
Posted inMarch 5, 1984: Linowes Commission raps coal leasing
The Aamodt case pits rural New Mexicans against each other
Western water fights usually pit local residents against outsiders. But in the Pojoaque valley north of Santa Fe, N.M., water has turned residents of several small Hispanic towns against the people living around them in Indian pueblos. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/16.4/download-entire-issue