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.
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
Posted inMarch 5, 1984: Linowes Commission raps coal leasing
Linowes Commission raps coal leasing
The Linowes Commission has found James Watt’s Department of Interior guilty of man-handling coal leasing. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/16.4/download-entire-issue
Posted inFebruary 20, 1984: How Hugh Kaufman moves the ball
This year, the Colorado River will bury us in electricity
Last year’s precipitation came late in the season and flooded the Colorado River with water. This year the snows came early, and will flood the region with electricity. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/16.3/download-entire-issue
Posted inFebruary 20, 1984: How Hugh Kaufman moves the ball
The Central Arizona Project is designed to water homes
The key to Arizona doubling its population by the year 2000, as many predict it will, is the Central Arizona Project, initially sold as an agricultural project to water cotton, wheat and alfalfa. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/16.3/download-entire-issue
Posted inFebruary 20, 1984: How Hugh Kaufman moves the ball
How Hugh Kaufman moves the ball
EPA Superfund whistleblower Hugh Kaufman travels the country telling one horror story after another about the Carter and Reagan administrations. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/16.3/download-entire-issue
Posted inFebruary 6, 1984: Wyoming: a small town with long streets
FDR’s and the nation’s best Interior Secretary
More than most public officials of his or any time, former Interior Secretary Harold Ickes knew how to make government work, and what he did to make it work wasn’t always pretty. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/16.2/download-entire-issue
Posted inFebruary 6, 1984: Wyoming: a small town with long streets
Who will inherit Wyoming?
If James Watt doesn’t have the political touch to become Wyoming’s next governor, who does? Perhaps the best clue can be found by looking at the present Governor, Ed Herschler, a Democrat. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/16.2/download-entire-issue