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
Politics 1980
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
Posted inAugust 22, 1980: Focus on the sun
The silent generator’s costs come down to earth
Today solar electricity is running, among other things, a remote refrigerator, a radio repeater, a national park building and a backwoods out-house in the Rocky Mountain states. Six years from now, the U.S. Department of Energy predicts that solar cells will be cheap enough even for the average biscuit baker. Download entire issue to view […]
Posted inAugust 22, 1980: Focus on the sun
Solar pioneer persists, without federal handout
Zomeworks Corporation, one of the nation’s earliest solar energy companies, strives to develop and manufacture inexpensive items which pay for themselves, and does not take government grants. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/12.16/download-entire-issue
Posted inJuly 25, 1980: Squeezing the daylights out of Zion
Synfuel stakes prove too high for ARCO
The on-again, off-again relationship between the Atlantic Richfield Corporation and the oil shale industry is finally off — and this time possibly for good. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/12.15/download-entire-issue
Posted inJuly 25, 1980: Squeezing the daylights out of Zion
Squeezing the daylights out of Zion
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 […]
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