President Reagan’s proposed budget would allot more taxpayer dollars to Indian reservations but also impair the tribes’ efforts to gain control over energy development on reservations, undermining Indian tribes’ efforts to become more self-sufficient. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/13.11/download-entire-issue
Reagan budget hits Indian self-sufficiency
Posted inMay 29, 1981: Rolling down the road -- the invisible network of nuclear transport
Project Lighthawk gets conservationists off the ground
With his small plane, Michael Stewartt flies journalists, government officials and activists around the Rocky Mountain region to give them a birds-eye view of strips mines, coal-fired power plants and areas of scenic beauty. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/13.11/download-entire-issue
Posted inMay 15, 1981: No room in this field for the young
Yampa’s floodwaters carry boaters and dreams of a dam
A renewed proposal to dam Colorado’s Yampa River pits the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission against the Department of Interior. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/13.10/download-entire-issue
Posted inMay 15, 1981: No room in this field for the young
What’s seven feet tall, lays $200 eggs, reproduces slower than an elephant, and has been around since the days of the pterodactyl?
Montana’s highly unique paddlefish, a relic from the days of dinosaurs, now faces twentieth century problems, including that a large commercial market has developed for its eggs, which are valuable for caviar. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/13.10/download-entire-issue
Posted inMay 15, 1981: No room in this field for the young
No room in this field for the young
A farm near Boulder, Colorado illustrates the challenges of passing family farms on to future generations, and of the hurdles to young farmers in general. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/13.10/download-entire-issue
Posted inMay 1, 1981: Blowing it: 'ecotage' in Jackson Hole
Shifting credit fans agricultural fears
Rural monies are being drained out to urban industries by a banking system that is becoming more concentrated and less locally-owned as commercial banks abandon their agricultural customers in favor of new, more profitable lending enterprises. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/13.9/download-entire-issue
Posted inMay 1, 1981: Blowing it: 'ecotage' in Jackson Hole
‘Ecotage’ seeks wild ends but won’t make friends
No philosophical or psychological rationale speaks to the effectiveness of ecotage, Politically, what made sense for the Sixties activists is unlikely to work for wilderness advocates in the Eighties. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/13.9/download-entire-issue
Posted inMay 1, 1981: Blowing it: 'ecotage' in Jackson Hole
Blowing it: ‘ecotage’ in Jackson Hole
Sabotage of an oil and gas exploration rig outside Jackson, Wyoming, raises questions that divide the environmental community. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/13.9/download-entire-issue
Posted inApril 17, 1981: Tax forecloses inheritance dream
Tax forecloses inheritance dream
Inheritance taxes negate the rise in farmland value and consume some farms that would otherwise pass on to the farmers’ heirs, prompting efforts to reform tax laws. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/13.8/download-entire-issue
Posted inApril 17, 1981: Tax forecloses inheritance dream
Oil shale risks shared by nation’s water users, taxpayers
In part two of a two-part series, a geologist from Colorado examines the future of oil shale in the Rocky Mountain region, exploring the water, reclamation and technological questions that must be resolved. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/13.8/download-entire-issue
Posted inApril 17, 1981: Tax forecloses inheritance dream
Earth First! says it’s time to be tough
Editor Dan Whipple examines and critiques the roots and new tactics of the radical environmental group Earth First! Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/13.8/download-entire-issue
Posted inApril 3, 1981: Oil shale future: Jewel or synfuel?
Oil shale future: Jewel or synfuel?
In part one of a two-part series, a geologist from Colorado examines the future of oil shale in the Rocky Mountain region, exploring the properties of the oil-rich rock and the jockeying of energy companies for a piece of the action. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/13.7/download-entire-issue
Posted inApril 3, 1981: Oil shale future: Jewel or synfuel?
Jemez geothermal drilling strikes angry chord
The U.S. Department of Energy and commercial partners want to construct a geothermal well and power plant in New Mexico’s Valle Caldera, an area sacred to the Pueblo Indians and a mecca for tourists and outdoor recreationists. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/13.7/download-entire-issue
Posted inApril 3, 1981: Oil shale future: Jewel or synfuel?
Greeley said, ‘Go West,’ but fought the 19th century ‘Great Barbeque’ of public land
Horace Greeley, best know for saying ‘Go West, young man,” also said “Nature offers us good bargains, but she does not trust and will not be cheated.” Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/13.7/download-entire-issue
Posted inMarch 20, 1981: 'Extinct' grizzlies sighted in Colorado
Idaho’s new energy source stumbles in regulatory darkness
Despite efforts by Idaho’s Public Utilities Commission, the innovative energy source known as cogeneration remains stalled by a complex of financing and regulatory stumbling blocks. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/13.6/download-entire-issue
Posted inMarch 20, 1981: 'Extinct' grizzlies sighted in Colorado
‘Extinct’ grizzlies sighted in Colorado
Recent reports of grizzly bears in Colorado may end the blanket denial of the grizzly’s presence there by state and federal officials. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/13.6/download-entire-issue
Posted inMarch 6, 1981: John Baden: Put public lands in private hands
Tribes to monitor leases?
Indian tribal leaders recently told a Senate committee that they could do a better job of monitoring oil operations on their lands then the federal government. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/13.5/download-entire-issue
Posted inMarch 6, 1981: John Baden: Put public lands in private hands
John Baden: Put public lands in private hands
The Center for Political Economy and Natural Resources, based in Bozeman, Montana, advocates for applying free market economic approaches to managing natural resources, including those on public lands. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/13.5/download-entire-issue
Posted inMarch 6, 1981: John Baden: Put public lands in private hands
Cocky CERT courts controversy, loses four tribes
The Council of Energy Resource Tribes emerged in 1975 with the bravado of a homegrown OPEC, but some tribes are withdrawing as the organization comes under federal scrutiny. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/13.5/download-entire-issue
Posted inFebruary 20, 1981: Water warning: a ploy, or poison?
Water warning: a ploy, or poison?
The Colorado Department of Health has warned the residents of Irondale, Colo., that their wells are contaminated with DBCP, a pesticide known to cause male sterility and possibly cancer. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/13.4/download-entire-issue