Acid rain, previously thought to be isolated in North America to the Midwestern and Northeastern regions, is spreading its environmental ills to the West. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/12.8/download-entire-issue
While Northeast frets, acid rain wets the West
Posted inApril 18, 1980: Solitude, prejudice, and wool all around
Trumpeter’s woes may be linked to radioactivity
High mortality of young trumpeter swans in and around Yellowstone National Park has puzzled researchers, but a new study suggests that radioactive substances may be the cause. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/12.8/download-entire-issue
Posted inApril 18, 1980: Solitude, prejudice, and wool all around
Solitude, prejudice, and wool all around
That’s what a sheepherder lives with, 365 days a year. The life requires a special kind of person, and there are fewer of them around. The sheep industry, too, is best by special problems. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/12.8/download-entire-issue
Posted inApril 4, 1980: Debate roils over Utah's troubled waters
Fraud freezes oil leases; reform bill falters
The future of federal gas and oil leasing has been thrown into turmoil by evidence of extensive fraud, an Interior Department shutdown of the present program, and a report critical of legislation intended to overhaul the system. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/12.7/download-entire-issue
Posted inApril 4, 1980: Debate roils over Utah's troubled waters
Debate roils over Utah’s troubled waters
Proponents and critics jostle over the Central Utah Project, which would bring water from Utah’s Bonneville Basin to the bustling Wasatch Front. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/12.7/download-entire-issue
Posted inMarch 21, 1980: The grizzly: How many? Where? For how long?
The grizzly: How many? Where? For how long?
The Interagency Grizzly Bear Study Team, a group of game experts from state and federal agencies, may determine the future of the grizzly. To read the full text, click on the “View a PDF from the original” link below (shorter download), or download a PDF of the entire issue: http://www.hcn.org/issues/12.6/download-entire-issue This article appeared in the print […]
Posted inMarch 21, 1980: The grizzly: How many? Where? For how long?
Hydrocarbon hunt leads to wilderness
Ambiguities in the Wilderness Act leave open the possibility of oil and gas development in Montana’s Bob Marshall Wilderness and other wilderness areas. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/12.6/download-entire-issue
Posted inMarch 21, 1980: The grizzly: How many? Where? For how long?
Foley II: Second try at wilderness ‘release’
The congressional debate over preserving the last remaining forest wild lands took a perplexing turn earlier this month, as Rep. Thomas Foley (D- Wash.) introduced his second omnibus national wilderness bill. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/12.6/download-entire-issue
Posted inMarch 7, 1980: How many coal bucks should a smart state lasso?
Influential ‘techno-twit’ mines U.S. energy inefficiencies
Amory Lovins says the industrialized world suffers not from energy want but from energy waste, and foresees a future where energy bills go down, benefiting both utilities and consumers. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/12.5/download-entire-issue
Posted inMarch 7, 1980: How many coal bucks should a smart state lasso?
How many coal bucks should a smart state lasso?
States apply a variety of severance taxes to non-renewable resources such as coal, defying efforts to create a unified, national approach. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/12.5/download-entire-issue
Posted inMarch 7, 1980: How many coal bucks should a smart state lasso?
Business-as-usual politics spurs new dam foes
Some conservative Western senators are unexpectedly calling for cuts to federal water project spending — and environmentalists should cooperate by not fighting the few water projects that might have some redeeming value. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/12.5/download-entire-issue
Posted inFebruary 22, 1980: Tailings, pollution haunt uranium company town
The Sagebrush Rebellion: Misdirected dynamite
The real danger of the Sagebrush Rebellion is not that the federal lands will be taken over but that the deep sentiments aroused by the effort will drive a wedge between agricultural and environmental interests. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/12.4/download-entire-issue
Posted inFebruary 22, 1980: Tailings, pollution haunt uranium company town
Tailings, pollution haunt uranium company town
Uravan, Colorado, wholly owned by the metals division of Union Carbide, faces serious pollution problems caused by operation of one of the oldest uranium mills in America. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/12.4/download-entire-issue
Posted inFebruary 22, 1980: Tailings, pollution haunt uranium company town
Federal coyote control mellows; mutton-raisers talk mutiny
A recent policy shift made by the Interior Department in its Animal Damage Control program has generally pleased environmentalists and raised hackles among sheepmen, who see the action as a betrayal. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/12.4/download-entire-issue
Posted inFebruary 8, 1980: High heating costs fire up consumers in Rockies
U.S. House funds Burlington Dam but not Libby
The Libby Dam, proposed for Montana’s Kootenai River and opposed by a local sportsman’s group, was rejected by the U.S. House in a bill that approved North Dakota’s controversial Burlington Dam. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/12.3/download-entire-issue
Posted inFebruary 8, 1980: High heating costs fire up consumers in Rockies
Idaho tells feds: ‘stop dumping radioactive wastes into aquifer’
Idaho citizens and political leaders are battling federal energy officials in an effort to halt pumping of radioactive wastes from the Department of Energy’s National Engineering Laboratory into the Snake River Plain Aquifer. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/12.3/download-entire-issue
Posted inFebruary 8, 1980: High heating costs fire up consumers in Rockies
High heating costs fire up consumers in Rockies
Rising fuels costs mean higher heating bills for homeowners and businesses, with no relief in sight. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/12.3/download-entire-issue
Posted inJanuary 25, 1980: Study of radioactive homes 'lost' for eight years
Teapot Dome earns big as private drillers steam
Oil pumped from the federal oil reserve at Teapot Dome, Wyoming, sells at prices six times higher than oil from adjacent private fields because of price controls. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/12.2/download-entire-issue
Posted inJanuary 25, 1980: Study of radioactive homes 'lost' for eight years
Study of radioactive homes ‘lost’ for eight years
A study, initiated by the Environmental Protection Agency but never released to the public, documents high radioactivity in more than a hundred communities where uranium tailings were used as construction fill material. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/12.2/download-entire-issue
Posted inJanuary 25, 1980: Study of radioactive homes 'lost' for eight years
How Grinnell and the buffalo rescued Yellowstone
George Bird Grinnell, commissioned to explore the newly formed Yellowstone National Park and report on its wonders, found in the buffalo a concrete symbol to generate deep public sentiment. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/12.2/download-entire-issue