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
John Baden: Put public lands in private hands
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
Posted inFebruary 20, 1981: Water warning: a ploy, or poison?
First forest plan perplexes public
A forest plan for Montana’s Lolo National Forest, the first to be drafted under the 1976 National Forest Management Act, draws scrutiny from both environmentalists and the timber industry. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/13.4/download-entire-issue
Posted inFebruary 20, 1981: Water warning: a ploy, or poison?
Emotional water issues clog ETSI’s pipeline
Energy Transportation Systems Inc. proposes to build a coal-slurry pipeline to transport coal from Wyoming to Louisiana, but the required water is the principal emotional and political hurdle. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/13.4/download-entire-issue
Posted inFebruary 20, 1981: Water warning: a ploy, or poison?
1980 Index
See a list of all High Country News articles published in 1980, categorized by subject. Click link to view PDF. This article appeared in the print edition of the magazine with the headline 1980 Index.
Posted inFebruary 6, 1981: Wyoming loses million on ore tax
Wyoming loses million on ore tax
Because of outdated tax assessment methods, the state of Wyoming has lost about $10 million in uranium severance tax payments since 1977. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/13.3/download-entire-issue
Posted inFebruary 6, 1981: Wyoming loses million on ore tax
Utah water planners turn on the pressure
As Salt Lake City sprawls toward the Kennecott’s Bingham copper mine, issues of air and water pollution are pressed on state regulators. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/13.3/download-entire-issue
Posted inFebruary 6, 1981: Wyoming loses million on ore tax
Linford’s pen still pursues West’s polluters
Ernest Linford may be retired after a noted career as a journalist and professor in Wyoming, but he remains committed to land and water conservation. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/13.3/download-entire-issue
Posted inJanuary 23, 1981: Water watchdogs neglect the Navajo
Water watchdogs neglect the Navajo
A congressional investigation has found that there may be serious undiscovered drinking water problems on the Navajo Indian Reservation. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/13.2/download-entire-issue
Posted inJanuary 23, 1981: Water watchdogs neglect the Navajo
Prime wild lands open to oil and gas
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
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