National Parks Service head Russell Dickenson copes with the unwelcome political interference that has edged into the agency during the past decade. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/13.24/download-entire-issue
Dickenson: Old parks hand survives D.C. turmoil
Posted inDecember 11, 1981: Uranium tomorrow
Cabin Creek mine scares Glacier Park
A proposed open-pit mine that would produce two million tons of coal a year in Cabin Creek, British Columbia, may pose a serious threat to fish, wildlife, water and air quality in Glacier National Park. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/13.24/download-entire-issue
Posted inDecember 11, 1981: Uranium tomorrow
Uranium tomorrow
Many domestic uranium producers fear that even if the market revived, a flood of foreign uranium could smother the future of the domestic industry. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/13.24/download-entire-issue
Posted inNovember 27, 1981: Colorado at the Crossroads
Denver muddies water policy
The Denver Water Board wages ongoing battles with consumer advocates, environmentalists, and residents of Colorado’s Western Slope. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/13.23/download-entire-issue
Posted inNovember 27, 1981: Colorado at the Crossroads
Colorado’s rural suburb
Battlement Mesa is an ambitious effort to deal in one fell swoop with all the physical community needs created by large-scale oil shale development. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/13.23/download-entire-issue
Posted inNovember 13, 1981: Making the most of the public lands
What to eat … what, indeed
Conservation is simply a grateful recognition of connections, the self in two-way contact with a world of elements and lives. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/13.22/download-entire-issue
Posted inNovember 13, 1981: Making the most of the public lands
Reagan’s free market energy myth
Although the Reagan administration preaches free market ideals, it has increased funding for nuclear power, retained some subsidies for synthetic fuels, and backed away from its promise to deregulate the price of natural gas. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/13.22/download-entire-issue
Posted inNovember 13, 1981: Making the most of the public lands
Making the most of the public lands
Bureau of Land Management head Bob Burford scares conservationists and tips the scales of management toward greater development of BLM land. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/13.22/download-entire-issue
Posted inNovember 13, 1981: Making the most of the public lands
Cecil Andrus on windmills and balance
HCN interviews Cecil Andrus, who served as Interior Secretary under President Jimmy Carter and then as ldaho’s governor from 1970-78. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/13.22/download-entire-issue
Posted inOctober 30, 1981: Montana
Where prairies and mountains class
The Rocky Mountain Front’s Pine Butte Swamp, an area facing oil development, is the last place in the contiguous United States where grizzly bears come down from the mountains to forage in the lowlands. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/13.21/download-entire-issue
Posted inOctober 30, 1981: Montana
Removing the “heavy hand”
As long as we have the federal government in our front yard, we will attempt to work with them to arrive at decisions that are mutually beneficial to Montanans and to the nation as a whole. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/13.21/download-entire-issue
Posted inOctober 30, 1981: Montana
Getting no breaks at C.M Russell
Livestock grazing and wildlife clash in the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s management plan for the Charles M. Russell National Wildlife Refuge. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/13.21/download-entire-issue
Posted inOctober 16, 1981: Briney Colorado still defies salty solutions
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Posted inOctober 16, 1981: Briney Colorado still defies salty solutions
Sickness and health … or profit and loss
The changes that Congress makes to the Clean Air Act when the act is renewed are sure to have an effect on the Rocky Mountain West. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/13.20/download-entire-issue
Posted inOctober 16, 1981: Briney Colorado still defies salty solutions
Profiting from parks: None of Watt’s business
Virtually every hotel, store, gas station and restaurant in the national parks is a private, profit-making enterprise. Regulation of these businesses is one of the most important and least understood issues in public land management. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/13.20/download-entire-issue
Posted inOctober 16, 1981: Briney Colorado still defies salty solutions
Briney Colorado still defies salty solutions
One thousand miles upriver from Mexico’s farmers, in Colorado’s Grand Valley, the federal effort to control salinity is floundering. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/13.20/download-entire-issue
Posted inOctober 2, 1981: Encounters with Henry on Utah's Green River
Put that beer can in Bucket No. 14, please
If Edward Abbey were introduced to my father, Edward Abbey would probably toss a beer can at him. My father would pick it up and put it in the proper recycling bucket. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/13.19/download-entire-issue
Posted inOctober 2, 1981: Encounters with Henry on Utah's Green River
Revenue bonds put some firms in black, but feds see only red
Large, national retail companies take advantage of industrial revenue bonds intended to provide cheap capital to financially undernourished communities. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/13.19/download-entire-issue
Posted inOctober 2, 1981: Encounters with Henry on Utah's Green River
Encounters with Henry on Utah’s Green River
Excerpts from Edward Abbey’s introduction to a new edition of Henry David Thoreau’s Walden. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/13.19/download-entire-issue
Posted inSeptember 18, 1981: Crying wolf -- restoring the 'rapacious predator' to the Rockies
Today the rain blows in like a California tourist …
Don Snow recounts a day fishing in Montana’s Bitterroot Mountains. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/13.18/download-entire-issue