BLM catches flak for wilderness inventory

As the Bureau of Land Management inventories potential wilderness on the 174 million acres its oversees in the Western states, industry spokesmen are leveling charges of “land grab” while conservationists are concerned about the compressed timetables and a lack of knowledge. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/10.25/download-entire-issue

A plan to divert the South Platte River in order to recharge groundwater and ease an agricultural water shortage on Colorado’s northeastern plains might also create wetlands that would provide needed wildlife habitat. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/10.24/download-entire-issue

Many appropriate technologists feel that their approaches and devices are in danger of being undermined and co-opted by the bastions of industry. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/10.24/download-entire-issue

The Tennessee Valley Authority will begin remediation of a uranium mill in Edgemont, South Dakota, and the agreement about who will pay for the cleanup could pave the way for remediation of other sites across the West that are contaminated by uranium. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/10.23/download-entire-issue

The forerunner of the militant environmentalism of the 1960s and 1970s was William T. Hornaday, a man who had been dead and largely ignored for 30 years — a man not wholly admired for making  fellow conservation leaders blush by his overzealous and often unjust attacks. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/10.23/download-entire-issue

Largely because of pocketbook promises from the candidates, voters in the Northern Plains and Rockies states have apparently stacked the deck against progressive environmental lawmaking in the state legislatures next year. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/10.22/download-entire-issue

The U.S. Forest Service’s poll of 360,000 people on the subject of wilderness and roadless lands reveals a great deal of anti-wilderness sentiment as the agency retires into secrecy to develop its final proposals for the second Roadless Area Review and Evaluation (RARE II). Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/10.21/download-entire-issue

Amory Lovins delivers a message that grassroots efforts and individual action can create a transition to “soft technology” — diverse, renewable, relatively simple and matched in scale to their end use needs. To read the full text, click on the “View a PDF from the original” link below, or download a PDF of the entire […]

As the National Park Service has expanded to manage new and unusual places, it has grown into a sprawling agency that is less professional than the Forest Service, less dedicated to management principles than the Fish and Widlife Service, and more set in its ways than the Bureau of Land Management. Download entire issue to […]

During his tenure as Secretary of the Interior Department, at a time when settlers simply took what they wanted from public lands, Carl Schurz pushed to put into practice the conservation ethic developed by George Perkins Marsh and others. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/10.19/download-entire-issue

Despite criticism, Alan Merson, recently appointed the regional administrator for the Environmental Protection Agency in Denver, doesn’t back down from claims that he’s an environmentalist. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/10.19/download-entire-issue

A federal judge’s order to halt construction of the Grayrocks Dam in Wheatland, Wyo., could shrink the generating capacity of the 1,500 megawatt coal-fired power plant the dam would have served. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/10.19/download-entire-issue

Members of the Navajo Tribe and local Indian pueblos have formed the Native American Appropriate Technology Action Council as a way to develop and promote technologies like solar that are cheap, decentralized, and that generate a spirit of self-determination. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/10.18/download-entire-issue