James Watt lacks the touch to be Wyoming’s governor

James Watt has as little chance of becoming governor of Wyoming as he has of being reappointed Secretary of Interior. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/16.2/download-entire-issue

I don’t think there is a “foreseeable future” for the Rockies. I’m not sure there is even a viable, likely future everyone would work toward or against. A lot of Rocky Mountain futurism resembles that branch of Christianity better at imagining hell than heaven. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/16.1/download-entire-issue

You cannot believe and you cannot fully understand the problems we have in running a country of 430 million Americans as we enter the 21st century, says Gov. Richard Lamm. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/16.1/download-entire-issue

For the seventh year in a row, the Great Salt Lake is rising, threatening Interstate highways, wildlife sanctuaries, thousands of homes and businesses, and possibly downtown Salt Lake City itself. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/16.1/download-entire-issue

Grassroots groups, not government regulators, are reacting to problems at the Envirosafe toxic waste landfill in Idaho, a facility once considered the safest in the West. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/15.24/download-entire-issue

A harrowing, in-depth account of how the Bureau of Reclamation responded to the Colorado River’s wrathful 1982 summer runoff that nearly broke the Glen Canyon Dam. (To read the full text, click on the “View a PDF from the original” link below, or download a PDF of the entire issue: http://www.hcn.org/issues/15.23/download-entire-issue.) This article appeared in […]

1984 is ripe for a flood of state wilderness bills to pass Congress, meaning that President Ronald Reagan could end up signing more wilderness legislation into law than any other chief executive. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/15.23/download-entire-issue

The biggest earthquake in the United States in 24 years rippled through Idaho on October 28, blasting trees from the ground and causing widespread damage. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/15.22/download-entire-issue

Thanks to a retired Nazarene minister, the tiny and remote town of Lake City, Colo., will soon be powered by water flowing down the Lake Fork of the Gunnison River. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/15.22/download-entire-issue

In Montana, a construction workers’ union has joined the state’s leading environmental group in a lawsuit against a power company and state agencies that granted permits for a 200-mile-long natural gas pipeline. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/15.21/download-entire-issue

Watt’s unique concept of balanced management landed on Idaho with his appointments to the BLM districts’ citizen advisory boards. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/15.20/download-entire-issue

Secretary James Watt’s downfall was caused largely by his apparent failure to understand the major coal issues and the economy that has evolved since his early stint in Interior in the mid-1970s. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/15.20/download-entire-issue