The Idaho Public Utilities Commission has gained national attention for being the first utility commission to wield the federal Public Utility Regulatory Policies Act (PURPA), filling the void created by unconcerned state officials and legislators. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/14.2/download-entire-issue
Aggressive agency lowers thermostats and raises hackles
Posted inJanuary 8, 1982: Surviving winter in the Rockies
Paving the way for snowmobiles in the parks?
Snowmobiles are permitted in 20 national parks in the lower 48 states and there is steady pressure from the snowmobiling community to gain access to additional park areas, such as in Grand Teton National Park. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/14.1/download-entire-issue
Posted inJanuary 8, 1982: Surviving winter in the Rockies
Open pit and economic pendulum
As the West’s uranium industry declines, it should reclaim mines, not wait for economics to swing back in the industry’s favor. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/14.1/download-entire-issue
Posted inDecember 11, 1981: Uranium tomorrow
Dickenson: Old parks hand survives D.C. turmoil
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
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