Forest plans in the Rockies: Where the ploys are

The Forest Service’s decision to move into a third iteration of the Roadless Area Review and Evaluation (RARE) process has pulled the rug out from the creation of forest plans, but they are moving forward nonetheless. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/15.4/download-entire-issue

A Colorado air quality official said EPA’s disapproval portrays the Clean Air Act as “mighty inflexible” providing “powerful ammunition to those who would weaken the act.” Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/15.3/download-entire-issue

As a result of slower than expected demand, due in part to conservation efforts, dozens of proposed power facilities have been cancelled or delayed. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/15.3/download-entire-issue

Officials trying to build the Department of Energy’s Waste Isolation Pilot Plant are discovering that they must first solve many institutional problems which are tied into the continuing national debate over nuclear energy. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/15.2/download-entire-issue

Like hosing down a driveway, the Colorado River’s daily rising and falling is causing a gradual erosion of Grand Canyon beaches. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/15.2/download-entire-issue

Widespread use of political action committees, a relatively new phenomenon on the American political scene, is driving politics in many Western states. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/15.1/download-entire-issue

No one knows the extent of groundwater pollution in the northern Rocky Mountain states. And even when contamination is discovered, it is often difficult to pinpoint the source. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/15.1/download-entire-issue

Does the Rocky Mountain identity really exist? Do people here feel the pull of regionalism like, say, midwesterners or New England natives? Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/14.25/download-entire-issue

One can be a technotwit, a businessman, a flower child or even a woman and win elections in the Rockies, but it helps if one also knows how to swing a rope, or at least a fly rod. To read this article, click the “View a PDF from the original” link below. This article appeared […]

Is a sense of place — a link between bios and region — vital? One of America’s greatest afflictions is a feeling of homelessness, estrangement, anomie. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/14.25/download-entire-issue

The residents of Phoenix, Albuquerque and Tucson are no more southwesterners than the American employees of oil companies, living in Saudi Arabia in sealed compounds complete with Wataburger stands, are Saudi Arabians. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/14.25/download-entire-issue

The basic paradox of the powerful nuclear weapons that reside in Cheyenne, Wyo. and other Western locales is that they are too powerful to be used. But if this is so, they lose all their strategic and diplomatic value — so we have to keep threatening to use them. To read this article, click the […]

A welding engineer with the Washington Public Power Plant Supply System says the plant has structural problems that could cause costly delays. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/14.24/download-entire-issue