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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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