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
BLM names Wilderness Study Areas; regional reaction mixed
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
Posted inOctober 17, 1980: Politics 1980
Politics 1980
Increasing pressure for resource extraction in the West would suggest that the 1980 election would hinge on natural resource issues. Yet in most political races, natural resource issues are not at the forefront. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/12.20/download-entire-issue
Posted inOctober 17, 1980: Politics 1980
“Lee Metcalf” wilderness may shrink to BN, Melcher’s size
A proposal to create the Lee Metcalf Wilderness Area in southwest Montana is being countered by Montana Sen. John Melcher and Burlington Northern Inc., which owns a checkerboard of timber lands in the area. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/12.20/download-entire-issue
Posted inOctober 3, 1980: Tampering with the elements: success or failure?
Tanker port and pipeline path pain Puget Sound opponents
The proposed Northern Tier Pipeline would carry up to 900,000 barrels of oil a day from a tanker port on Washington’s Puget Sound through Idaho, Montana and North Dakota, terminating at a refinery in Clearbrook, Minn. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/12.19/download-entire-issue
Posted inOctober 3, 1980: Tampering with the elements: success or failure?
Tampering with the elements: success or failure?
The issue of who is legally responsible if something goes awry when cloud seeders and other weather changers are at work is unresolved in Colorado and elsewhere. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/12.19/download-entire-issue
Posted inOctober 3, 1980: Tampering with the elements: success or failure?
Sagebrush revolt shows little clout
“The Sagebrush Rebellion is still alive and well and going strong,” according to Ron Michieli, executive director of the National Public Lands Council. In light of the facts, however, Michieli’s optimism seems unwarranted. To read this article, click the “View a PDF from the original” link below. This article appeared in the print edition of […]
Posted inOctober 3, 1980: Tampering with the elements: success or failure?
Catlin took his palette West to paint Indians
By steamboat, canoe, horse and sometimes staggering fever-ridden on his own two legs, George Catlin covered thousands of miles along the Missouri River and Rocky Mountains. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/12.19/download-entire-issue
Posted inOctober 1, 1984: A Western tradition ends with a conference on America's parks
A Western tradition ends with a conference on America’s parks
A report on the Institute of the American West’s conference, Parks in the West and American Culture. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/16.18/download-entire-issue
Posted inSeptember 19, 1980: Dinosaur dynamos?
Dinosaur dynamos?
The Bureau of Land Management says that energy conservation and renewable energy sources could produce twice as much power as the Allen-Warner power plants proposed for Utah and Nevada. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/12.18/download-entire-issue
Posted inSeptember 19, 1980: Dinosaur dynamos?
Coal tax fuels the search for alternative energy in Montana
Since 1975, Montana has funded 145 renewable energy projects — including solar, hydro, biomass and geothermal — with money from the state’s coal severance tax. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/12.18/download-entire-issue
Posted inSeptember 19, 1980: Dinosaur dynamos?
Budding bureaucracy copes with crowds, confusion and conflicts
As wilderness recreation becomes more popular, land management agencies are creating permit systems and other systems for dealing with the increased visitation. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/12.18/download-entire-issue
Posted inSeptember 5, 1980: Ailing uranium millworkers seek recognition, aid
Schools’ refusal to burn coal has local miners heated up
In a break with tradition, the school district in one of western Colorado’s most productive coal regions is building seven new schools, all of them to be heated with natural gas, an imported commodity. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/12.17/download-entire-issue
Posted inSeptember 5, 1980: Ailing uranium millworkers seek recognition, aid
Crested Butte water ordinance immersed in AMAX court challenge
Less than a month after Crested Butte, Colo., passed an ordinance aimed at protecting its watershed, city leaders find themselves face to face in court with AMAX, the mining giant that hopes to extract molybdenum nearby. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/12.17/download-entire-issue
Posted inSeptember 5, 1980: Ailing uranium millworkers seek recognition, aid
Ailing uranium millworkers seek recognition, aid
Millworkers helped produce uranium for the nation’s nuclear defense program in the 1950s and ’60s. Now many are ill from exposure to radiation, but getting compensation is difficult. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/12.17/download-entire-issue