Utah’s wilderness bill heads for the House

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

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

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

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