The author reflects on childhood visits to Utah, the history of the Mormons and the National Miners Union, and the state’s perhaps bleak future. To read this article, click the “View a PDF from the original” link below, or download entire issue: http://www.hcn.org/issues/12.15/download-entire-issue This article appeared in the print edition of the magazine with the […]
Squeezing the daylights out of Zion
Posted inJuly 25, 1980: Squeezing the daylights out of Zion
ASARCO drillers and grizzly share Cabinets
ASARCO recently began its second season here of drilling for copper and silver ore samples in the Cabinet Mountains of northwest Montana, an area designated as wilderness and home to grizzly bears. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/12.15/download-entire-issue
Posted inJuly 11, 1980: States, courts, cutbacks put pressure on strip mine agency
Would new Montana air rules close smelters?
Tough new ambient air quality standards proposed for Montana have been sidetracked by last-minute questions over the effect they might have on Anaconda Co.’s copper smelters. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/12.14/download-entire-issue
Posted inJuly 11, 1980: States, courts, cutbacks put pressure on strip mine agency
States, courts, cutbacks put pressure on strip mine agency
Even as strip mines multiply throughout the Rocky Mountain states, the federal agency responsible for overseeing reclamation of mined lands — the Office of Surface Mining — is reeling under a series of blows. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/12.14/download-entire-issue
Posted inJuly 11, 1980: States, courts, cutbacks put pressure on strip mine agency
John Peavey: a maverick changes stripes
John Peavy, a former state senator who now runs a 250,000 acre sheep and cattle operation in southern Idaho, is now running for that office on an environmental platform. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/12.14/download-entire-issue
Posted inJune 27, 1980: Mining mishap could spell future trouble
Ownership switch untracked, but historic train runs on
A citrus millionaire from Florida wants to revive the century-old narrow gauge railroad route between Durango and Silverton, Colorado. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/12.13/download-entire-issue
Posted inJune 27, 1980: Mining mishap could spell future trouble
North Dakota solons open Garrison tap
A dispute over funding of the Garrison Diversion Project has prompted unprecedented lobbying in the U.S. Senate by Canadian government officials, plus opposition efforts by environmentalists. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/12.13/download-entire-issue
Posted inJune 27, 1980: Mining mishap could spell future trouble
Mining mishap could spell future trouble
Public officials’ response to a spill of toxic water at the Alumet phosphate mine is stoking criticism of the expanding phosphate industry in southeastern Idaho. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/12.13/download-entire-issue
Posted inJune 13, 1980: Digging up the West for shipment to Japan
Western Peregrine revival ahead?
If all goes well, peregrine falcons raised near Salt Lake City will reach breeding age and return to historic nest sites on the Wasatch Range to the east. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/12.12/download-entire-issue
Posted inJune 13, 1980: Digging up the West for shipment to Japan
In situ uranium project springs leak, but pumps again
The fate of Wyoming’s first commercial-size in situ uranium mine remains uncertain following a Nuclear Regulatory Commission decision giving the operation 90 days to prove it can operate without polluting ground water near Buffalo, Wyo. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/12.12/download-entire-issue
Posted inJune 13, 1980: Digging up the West for shipment to Japan
Digging up the West for shipment to Japan
Western states band together to open the door to mammoth coal exports to Pacific Basin countries, a trend driven by federal trade policies. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/12.12/download-entire-issue
Posted inMay 30, 1980: Indians in the melting pot: 'old ways' don't melt
Pressure builds on farmers to sell out
As profits from farming plummet and urban areas encroach on rural surroundings, farmers are increasingly selling their land to subdivision developers. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/12.11/download-entire-issue
Posted inMay 30, 1980: Indians in the melting pot: 'old ways' don't melt
Lobbyists spend $100,000 a month to cut severance taxes
The National Coal Consumers Alliance pushes hard for legislation that would limit coal severance taxes imposed by states like Montana and Wyoming. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/12.11/download-entire-issue
Posted inMay 30, 1980: Indians in the melting pot: 'old ways' don't melt
Indians in the melting pot: ‘old ways’ don’t melt
For more than 25 Western tribes that hold vast quantities of coal and uranium, the energy crisis is another source of pressure to abandon their cultural identity. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/12.11/download-entire-issue
Posted inMay 16, 1980: Solitude seekers disagree about open spaces
Solitude seekers disagree about open spaces
More than 174 million obscure acres in the West have been spotlighted by the Bureau of Land Management’s wilderness inventory, which is now the subject of public scrutiny. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/12.10/download-entire-issue
Posted inMay 16, 1980: Solitude seekers disagree about open spaces
Fair breeze for wind energy; projects whirl
With the implementation of PURPA, a 1979 federal law that requires utilities to buy back electricity from private alternative-energy sources, along with tax breaks, many are optimistic about the future of wind energy. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/12.10/download-entire-issue
Posted inMay 16, 1980: Solitude seekers disagree about open spaces
Colorado town waits, wonders what to do with uranium tailings
Despite agitation from residents of Durango, Colo., officials still have no plan for dealing with the million ton mountain of radioactive uranium tailings outside town. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/12.10/download-entire-issue
Posted inMay 2, 1980: Park Service director ousted in continuing policy strife
Workers, plants, confusion come to ‘sweeten’ Evanston gas
Two large “sweetening” plants — which remove toxic hydrogen sulfide from natural gas — are slated for construction near Evanston, Wyoming. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/12.9/download-entire-issue
Posted inMay 2, 1980: Park Service director ousted in continuing policy strife
Park Service director ousted in continuing policy strife
In a move enveloped by political controversy, Secretary of Interior Cecil Andrus has fired the director of the National Park Service, William Whalen. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/12.9/download-entire-issue
Posted inMay 2, 1980: Park Service director ousted in continuing policy strife
Cache la Poudre River: last Front Range chance to flow
Farmers and advocates of Front Range growth winced last month when the U.S. Forest Service and State of Colorado recommended that most of the Cache la Poudre River be protected from major development. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/12.9/download-entire-issue