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
Teapot Dome earns big as private drillers steam
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
Posted inJanuary 11, 1980: New kind of 'public interest' group pushes growth
New kind of ‘public interest’ group pushes growth
Although Denver-based Mountain States Legal Foundation describes itself as a public interest legal group, it advocates for private property rights and free enterprise. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/12.1/download-entire-issue
Posted inJanuary 11, 1980: New kind of 'public interest' group pushes growth
Federal energy program taking shape in Congress
After more than seven years of trying, Congress is close to enacting a comprehensive national energy program that would include a government-sponsored synthetic fuels program and a “fast-track” board to speed domestic energy projects. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/12.1/download-entire-issue
Posted inDecember 28, 1979: Fending off nature's bill collector with planning
Utah water conflict unites environmentalists, ranchers
Ranchers and environmentalists in Utah’s Kane Country — where residents a few years ago hanged an effigy of Robert Redford as a statement against his environmentalism — are now protesting the Interior Department to stop a coal strip mine. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/11.25/download-entire-issue
Posted inDecember 28, 1979: Fending off nature's bill collector with planning
Hail and farewell! 1979
A Holiday season ode to the West’s environmental issues of 1979: “It’s time for reviewing the year first to last: // A remembrance of two dozen deadlines past. // Water and wilderness, endangered species, // Oil, Alaska, railroads and coal leases;” Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/11.25/download-entire-issue
Posted inDecember 28, 1979: Fending off nature's bill collector with planning
Fending off nature’s bill collector with planning
President Franklin Delano Roosevelt understood stewardship — understood the significance of an America overgrazed, overfarmed and carelessly logged. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/11.25/download-entire-issue
Posted inDecember 28, 1979: Fending off nature's bill collector with planning
Explosive issue: plan to ‘bomb’ Bob Marshall
A plan to detonate explosives in Montana’s Bob Marshall Wilderness in a search for oil and gas deposits has sparked anger among environmentalists and words of caution from federal officials. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/11.25/download-entire-issue
Posted inDecember 14, 1979: Canny CERT gets respect, money, problems
Wolves: the animals that man created
Nowhere in human history has fiction so outdistanced fact as in the lore of the wolf. Along with spiders, snakes and sharks, Carl Jung lists the wolf as generating almost universal fear in the human psyche. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/11.24/download-entire-issue
Posted inDecember 14, 1979: Canny CERT gets respect, money, problems
NRC tailings control too lax, Wyoming charges
Western Nuclear Inc. has agreed to comply with the Wyoming Department of Environmental Quality and stop construction of a uranium tailings dam that the federal Nuclear Regulatory Commission already permitted, highlighting the gap between state and federal regulations. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/11.24/download-entire-issue
Posted inDecember 14, 1979: Canny CERT gets respect, money, problems
Canny CERT gets respect, money, problems
Despite its problems and dissidents, the Council of Energy Resource Tribes — comprising 25 tribes who own one-third of the low sulfur coal west of the Mississippi and as much as half the privately owned uranium in the country — is emerging as a serious player in the energy development game. Download entire issue to […]
Posted inNovember 30, 1979: Agency's wilderness grazing policies 'too pure'
Lone Ranger Nader: Just what does he want?
A look at Ralph Nader’s background lends support to a view of him as a product of America’s traditional idealism — an idealism that has generated conflicts throughout the country’s history because it is frequently at odds with political and economic realities. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/11.23/download-entire-issue
Posted inNovember 30, 1979: Agency's wilderness grazing policies 'too pure'
DeSmet coal-to-gas plant in the works again
The small town of Buffalo, Wyoming, may face an influx of more than 20,000 people if Texaco Inc. and Texas Eastern Corp. go ahead with plans for a strip mine and coal gasification plant near Lake DeSmet. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/11.23/download-entire-issue
Posted inNovember 30, 1979: Agency's wilderness grazing policies 'too pure'
Agency’s wilderness grazing policies ‘too pure’
Some conservationists trying to increase the amount of designated wilderness object to the regulations that the Wilderness Act places on grazing because those regulations draw opposition from ranchers. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/11.23/download-entire-issue
Posted inNovember 16, 1979: New coalition inspired by FARM conference
The boom reaches across the tracks
The influx of workers drawn to the booming uranium and coal economy of Rawlins, Wyoming, threatens the stability of the town’s old Hispanic community. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/11.22/download-entire-issue
Posted inNovember 16, 1979: New coalition inspired by FARM conference
New coalition inspired by FARM conference
The future of agriculture in the Rocky Mountain states may hinge on a trade-off with energy development spurred by the energy crisis. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/11.22/download-entire-issue
Posted inNovember 16, 1979: New coalition inspired by FARM conference
Energy boom hurts women, minorities most
Research indicates that the oil, gas and uranium boom that has hit the Rocky Mountain West in the past five years has been, for women and minorities, not a shot in the arm but a kick in the face. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/11.22/download-entire-issue
Posted inNovember 2, 1979: Wildlife and livestock face off in refuge battle
Wildlife and livestock face off in refuge battle
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and Bureau of Land Management are cutting back on grazing permits in Montana’s Charles M. Russell National Wildlife Refuge, angering ranchers. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/11.21/download-entire-issue
Posted inNovember 2, 1979: Wildlife and livestock face off in refuge battle
NRC proposes major revision of tailings regs
An analysis of present methods of disposing of uranium mill tailings has led the Nuclear Regulatory Commission to propose major regulation changes. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/11.21/download-entire-issue