The U.S. Forest Service has recommended opening to oil and gas leasing several Wyoming and Montana areas being considered for wilderness designation, and inserting environmental protections into the leases may be illegal. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/13.2/download-entire-issue
Prime wild lands open to oil and gas
Posted inJanuary 23, 1981: Water watchdogs neglect the Navajo
Conservation? Let’s go for the real thing
A conservation director for the Sierra Club distinguishes between “real” and “pseudo-” conservation. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/13.2/download-entire-issue
Posted inJanuary 9, 1981: 'I'm a juggie'
‘Wind easements’ sought for Livingston project
A handful of southern Montana ranchers and an East Coast corporation took the first steps in early December toward what may become the country’s largest wind power project. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/13.1/download-entire-issue
Posted inJanuary 9, 1981: 'I'm a juggie'
Tribes, frustrated with lack of federal regs, consider code
Western tribes with valuable energy resources are considering adopting a comprehensive environmental code, which could lead to court fights over who has the right to regulate development on Indian lands. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/13.1/download-entire-issue
Posted inJanuary 9, 1981: 'I'm a juggie'
‘I’m a juggie’
The author reflects on work “jugging” — seismographic exploration for oil and gas. “I had reservations about the work, but that $100 a day talked louder.” Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/13.1/download-entire-issue
Posted inDecember 26, 1980: Jeffrey City: "I don't know a person in town who isn't thinking of leaving"
PCB: Toxic material escaped transformers, now regulation
Two years after its manufacture was banned, and some 18 months since an accidental spill in Montana contaminated foodstuffs in Western states, the carcinogenic insulation fluid known as PCB remains in widespread use, largely unregulated and undisposable. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/12.25/download-entire-issue
Posted inDecember 26, 1980: Jeffrey City: "I don't know a person in town who isn't thinking of leaving"
Jeffrey City: “I don’t know a person in town who isn’t thinking of leaving”
In Jeffrey City, Wyo., a 25-year-old boom town that lies in one of the most hostile environments in the country, the local union struggles to hold the town together amid layoffs caused by a downturn in the uranium industry. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/12.25/download-entire-issue
Posted inDecember 26, 1980: Jeffrey City: "I don't know a person in town who isn't thinking of leaving"
Growth studies spur much talk, little consensus
Controlling growth in the Rocky Mountain West has never been fertile ground for a consensus of opinion. So few people were surprised this week that just as Utah announced a new growth study, Colorado was forced to swallow its control proposals. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/12.25/download-entire-issue
Posted inDecember 12, 1980: Rebels revel in new power, polish
Rebels revel in new power, polish
Now that the Sagebrush Rebels have a president and half a dozen conservative senators sympathetic to their cause, their goal of turning over federally managed lands to the states looks more tangible than ever. To read this article, click the “View a PDF from the original” link below, or download the entire issue: http://www.hcn.org/issues/12.24/download-entire-issue This […]
Posted inDecember 12, 1980: Rebels revel in new power, polish
Navajos protest land partition, relocation
The Navajos have taken their protest of the Navajo and Hopi Land Settlement Act to an international jury. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/12.24/download-entire-issue
Posted inDecember 12, 1980: Rebels revel in new power, polish
Energy companies seek peace — and resources — with Indians
Indian tribes may own one-third of the West’s low-sulfur coal and half the nation’s private uranium, and the energy industry is trying to connect with these and other resources on Indian lands. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/12.24/download-entire-issue
Posted inNovember 28, 1980: Channeling the stream of toxic wastes
The prodigal son became a conservation father
John James Audubon, an amateur painter and inept storekeeper in various towns along the American frontier, made remarkable contributions to art and science that became a force for conservation. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/12.23/download-entire-issue
Posted inNovember 28, 1980: Channeling the stream of toxic wastes
Channeling the stream of toxic wastes
Environmental regulators are perplexed as they grapple with what they’re calling the most pressing environmental problem of the 1980s — hazardous waste. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/12.23/download-entire-issue
Posted inNovember 28, 1980: Channeling the stream of toxic wastes
BLM names Wilderness Study Areas; regional reaction mixed
With little fanfare, the Bureau of Land Management has paired down public lands under consideration for protection as wilderness to 24 million acres in 11 western states. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/12.23/download-entire-issue
Posted inNovember 14, 1980: Anaconda: The smelter shuts down, and so does the town
Tar sands: Utah’s rocks ooze with oil
After the U.S. Department of Interior recently lifted a moratorium on federal tar-sands leasing, Utah officials set goals for developing the state’s tar sands resources. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/12.22/download-entire-issue
Posted inNovember 14, 1980: Anaconda: The smelter shuts down, and so does the town
Anaconda: The smelter shuts down, and so does the town
Citing antiquated equipment, pollution control problems and foreign competition, Atlantic Richfield Co. announced recently that it will not reopen its Anaconda, Montana, copper smelter, which employs nearly 1,000 people. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/12.22/download-entire-issue
Posted inOctober 31, 1980: Archeologists dig for points, paydirt
Tribes hold energy hostage in battle for control
Three Indian tribes in North Dakota have adopted seismic exploration regulations, issued permits and hired Indian guides for oil developers, all to address a lack of authority by the Bureau of Indian Affairs. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/12.21/download-entire-issue
Posted inOctober 31, 1980: Archeologists dig for points, paydirt
Powder River’s new rail track moves forward despite foes
Chicago and North Western Transportation Corp. is inching its locomotives towards the coal fields of the Powder River Basin in Wyoming. But local ranchers, Wyoming’s governor and the powerful Burlington Northern Railroad are all trying to keep it out. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/12.21/download-entire-issue
Posted inOctober 31, 1980: Archeologists dig for points, paydirt
Archeologists dig for points, paydirt
Requirements that energy companies inventory archeological sites when they disturb public lands are creating plenty of good-paying jobs for archeologists. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/12.21/download-entire-issue
Posted inOctober 17, 1980: Politics 1980
Who are the real ‘extremists’ in fight over wilderness?
Are they the Wilderness advocates who give freely from their lives to save the last remnants of American Wilderness? Or are they the protesters who flex every political muscle to prevent any more Wilderness and are now hoping to violate already-designated Wilderness. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/12.20/download-entire-issue