Since the completion of the Northern Rocky Mountain Wolf Recovery Plan in 1980, a team of biologists has been working to re-establish breeding populations of wolves in Montana, Idaho and Wyoming. To read this article, click the “View a PDF from the original” link below, or download entire issue: http://www.hcn.org/issues/13.18/download-entire-issue This article appeared in the […]
1981: Crying wolf — restoring the ‘rapacious predator’ to the Rockies
Posted inSeptember 4, 1981: Super-trains breed super-terminals
Super-trains breed super-terminals
Favoring bigger trains, Burlington Northern will discontinue rail service to small agricultural communities like Rapelje, Montana. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/13.17/download-entire-issue
Posted inSeptember 4, 1981: Super-trains breed super-terminals
Ag loans face dollar drought
Low-interest loan programs will likely benefit large, already successful farmers and investors, while doing little to aid small or beginning farmers. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/13.17/download-entire-issue
Posted inAugust 7, 1981: Cattle, cussing and cowboys
The Pit and the Penstemon
An overview of Wyoming’s endangered plant species, including Penstemon acaulis, Laramie false sagebrush and Ross bentgrass. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/13.16/download-entire-issue
Posted inAugust 7, 1981: Cattle, cussing and cowboys
Cattle, cussing and cowboys
HCN editor Dan Whipple follows a cattle drive in Utah’s Uinta Mountains. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/13.16/download-entire-issue
Posted inAugust 7, 1981: Cattle, cussing and cowboys
1080 revival renews old wrangle
Sheep producers vigorously lobby the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to lift a ban on Compound 1080, which is used to poison predators. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/13.16/download-entire-issue
Posted inJuly 24, 1981: Peaking in on the Grand Canyon
Promoter turns planner to shape Western Slope growth
Trying to lure economic growth to Colorado’s Western Slope, Club 20 has promised everyone from winemakers to oil shale developers that they can have room to grow with minimal governmental interference. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/13.15/download-entire-issue
Posted inJuly 24, 1981: Peaking in on the Grand Canyon
Peaking in on the Grand Canyon
The focus of Colorado River controversy is a federal plan to meet increased electrical power needs by expanding generation at Glen Canyon Dam, just upstream of Grand Canyon National Park. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/13.15/download-entire-issue
Posted inJuly 24, 1981: Peaking in on the Grand Canyon
Colorado county scores record deal to handle energy growth
In a precedent-setting move that has stirred some corporate nerves, the Western Fuels Corp. has agreed to spend at least $15 million to help western Colorado’s Rio Blanco County prepare for a new coal mine. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/13.15/download-entire-issue
Posted inJuly 10, 1981: A mountain of money above a not-so-fruitful plan
Tuning in media causes environmental fade-out
Given the press of time and circumstances, the vocabulary of environmental organizations increasingly reflects a new technological style. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/13.14/download-entire-issue
Posted inJuly 10, 1981: A mountain of money above a not-so-fruitful plan
Power rules inhibit people power
Thousands of plans to create new hydroelectric, solar, geothermal or industry-cogenerated power under the 1978 Public Utility Regulatory Policies Act are being fought by electric utilities. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/13.14/download-entire-issue
Posted inJuly 10, 1981: A mountain of money above a not-so-fruitful plan
A mountain of money above a not-so-fruitful plan
When the Anaconda Copper Co. closed its Anaconda, Mont., smelter in October, the community appealed to the state for help in keeping the town alive. But the state’s response has been disappointing. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/13.14/download-entire-issue
Posted inJune 26, 1981: The Overthrust moneybelt: Difficult dispersal of impact dollars
“We don’t have separation of powers here” — the testing of tribal courts
A legal battle on Montana’s Northern Cheyenne Indian Reservation illustrates the quandary many tribal governments have as they face energy development decisions. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/13.13/download-entire-issue
Posted inJune 26, 1981: The Overthrust moneybelt: Difficult dispersal of impact dollars
The Overthrust moneybelt: Difficult dispersal of impact dollars
A natural gas boom around Evanston, Wyoming, has brought a rise in violent crime, traffic and disintegration of rural culture, but funds set aside to mitigate the impacts haven’t been properly applied. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/13.13/download-entire-issue
Posted inJune 26, 1981: The Overthrust moneybelt: Difficult dispersal of impact dollars
Conservatives and conservationists
The environmental perspective embraces not only the interests of the well-established environmental community, but many other interests as well, including the business sector. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/13.13/download-entire-issue
Posted inJune 12, 1981: Looking for juice in backyard dams
Looking for juice in backyard dams
A proposal to retrofit a high-mountain dam near Aspen, Colorado is one of dozens of potential hydropower projects in the Rocky Mountain Region. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/13.12/download-entire-issue
Posted inJune 12, 1981: Looking for juice in backyard dams
Environmental sophistry imperils the West
Several years ago, environmental organizations in Wyoming chose to begin making compromises. Slowly, inexorably, they are losing whatever it is they love. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/13.12/download-entire-issue
Posted inJune 12, 1981: Looking for juice in backyard dams
Baffling Bufo plight tied to Basin Baytex fight
The virtual disappearance of frog and toad species in Wyoming’s Laramie Basin may be caused by mosquito-control used by ranchers. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/13.12/download-entire-issue
Posted inMay 29, 1981: Rolling down the road -- the invisible network of nuclear transport
Rolling down the road — the invisible network of nuclear transport
The U.S. Department of Energy makes so many secret shipments of nuclear weapons components each year that there are a likely a dozen or more convoys on the road on some days. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/13.11/download-entire-issue
Posted inMay 29, 1981: Rolling down the road -- the invisible network of nuclear transport
Reagan budget hits Indian self-sufficiency
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