Playing presidential politics in Colorado ski country

Gary Hart, Colorado’s senior senator and the Rocky Mountain West’s own presidential candidate, talks conservation in Snowmass Village. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/15.13/download-entire-issue

Yellowstone area residents, mining proponents and others are still quarreling over how much protection to give to Yellowstone National Park’s boundary lands, such as Montana’s Beartooth Range, home to a rich platinum deposit. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/15.12/download-entire-issue

Applications for drilling for geothermal steam just west of Yellowstone National Park may threaten Old Faithful, the park’s iconic geyser. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/15.12/download-entire-issue

President Reagan’s lifting of the 1972 executive order banning 1080 and other poisons on public land raises old questions about predator control. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/15.11/download-entire-issue

The Energy Security Act of 1980 gave the U.S. Synthetic Fuels Corporation a mandate to produce millions of barrels of oil and gas from the nation’s oil shale, coal and tar sands, but the effort hasn’t gone much beyond the laboratory bench. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/15.11/download-entire-issue

Inflammatory Interior Secretary James Watt is merely the prominent tip of a large iceberg — a mass of anti-environmentalist individuals and organizations who believe what Watt believes, and worse. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/15.10/download-entire-issue

The election of Ronald Reagan — the most outspoken anti-environmental presidential candidate since Earth Day in 1970 — has sparked an unprecedented growth in environmental groups. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/15.10/download-entire-issue

Wildlife checkoffs — in which taxpayers donate any amount of their state income tax refund to the state game and fish departments, often for helping non-game species — are one of those rare good news stories. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/15.9/download-entire-issue

The five-year Flathead Basin Environmental Impact Study has brought together biologists, geologists and social scientists to predict potential impacts of growth on a northwest Montana valley. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/15.9/download-entire-issue

Defense of a coal-slurry ban by environmentalists and railroad workers is one example of Montana’s populism, which responds to the needs and desires of the citizens as opposed to the desires of big business. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/15.8/download-entire-issue

Development finance, coal slurry, hardrock mineral taxation, and the regulation of pesticides consumed the energies of the conservation lobby during the 1983 Montana legislature. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/15.8/download-entire-issue

The legacy of this century’s policies of total suppression of wildfire presents today’s better-informed forest managers with serious problems. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/15.7/download-entire-issue