After stretches of eight Western rivers — including Idaho’s Salmon River and Colorado’s Dolores River — were included in an omnibus wild and scenic rivers bill at the recommendation of President Jimmy Carter, the bill is caught in the perilous whitewater of Congress. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/10.11/download-entire-issue
Political rapids rock proposals for wild rivers
Posted inJune 2, 1978: Dirty air a health hazard in 30 areas of West
Dirty air a health hazard in 30 areas of West
While air pollution is generally not considered to be a problem in the West (with the obvious exceptions like Los Angeles and Denver), all Western states have areas that do not meet minimum federal clean air standards. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/10.11/download-entire-issue
Posted inJune 2, 1978: Dirty air a health hazard in 30 areas of West
Alaska: how the House was won
A Sierra Club employee recounts his initiation as a lobbyist during the congressional battle over the Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/10.11/download-entire-issue
Posted inMay 19, 1978: Montanans face turmoil next election
Solar power lures strange bedfellows in N.M.
With the increased availability of federal and state grant money for solar experimentation, the defense and nuclear industries in the state are beginning to cash in on New Mexico’s solar boom. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/10.10/download-entire-issue
Posted inMay 19, 1978: Montanans face turmoil next election
Montanans face turmoil next election
Montana’s congressional delegation may be going through major changes this year after almost two decades of stability under the combined leadership of Democratic Senators Mike Mansfield and Lee Metcalf. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/10.10/download-entire-issue
Posted inMay 19, 1978: Montanans face turmoil next election
God bless America. Let’s save some of it.
My ideas on “something different” therefore are offered only because it seems to me that our society is already much too authoritarian, and because certain trends, supported by a blind and misapplied technology, are leading toward an ever more authoritarian, centralized, potentially totalitarian state. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/10.10/download-entire-issue
Posted inMay 5, 1978: Environmentalists, backlash, and the 'New Right'
Rocky Flats nuclear protest draws thousands
An estimated 6,000 protestors flocked to the Rocky Flats Nuclear Weapons facility northwest of Denver, Colo., to call for the closure of the facility and an end to the nuclear arms race. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/10.9/download-entire-issue
Posted inMay 5, 1978: Environmentalists, backlash, and the 'New Right'
Environmentalists, backlash, and the ‘New Right’
Political attacks against Arizona Congressman Morris Udall are one example of recent political backlash against environmentalism, and may be part of a larger shift toward conservatism. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/10.9/download-entire-issue
Posted inMay 5, 1978: Environmentalists, backlash, and the 'New Right'
Conservationists give Utah delegation a low rating
Utah environmentalists consider themselves practically without representation in Congress, as Senators Jake Garn and Orrin Hatch and congressmen Gunn McKay and Dan Marriott consistently thwart their efforts. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/10.9/download-entire-issue
Posted inApril 21, 1978: McGrew calls insulation push 'a consumer ripoff'
Two more reservations want Class I air quality
The Flathead and Fort Peck Indian Reservation councils have decided to seek Class I protection for their air under the Clean Air Act. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/10.8/download-entire-issue
Posted inApril 21, 1978: McGrew calls insulation push 'a consumer ripoff'
Sun Day is May 3
Just as Earth Day 1970 is often referred to as the birthday of a wider public awareness of environmental concerns, organizers hope that Sun Day May 3 will be remembered as the one single event that brought solar energy into the public’s eye. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/10.8/download-entire-issue
Posted inApril 21, 1978: McGrew calls insulation push 'a consumer ripoff'
McGrew calls insulation push ‘a consumer ripoff’
Jay McGrew, an independent energy conservation consultant, says “the insulation business is a little bit like the insurance business. The salesmen always want to sell you more than you need.” Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/10.8/download-entire-issue
Posted inApril 7, 1978: Idaho elects wilderness champ and foe to Congress
Wilderness in Rockies could save federal dollars
Some wilderness advocates argue that taxpayers benefit from more wilderness because wilderness is less expensive to manage than land managed for timber harvest and other uses. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/10.7/download-entire-issue
Posted inApril 7, 1978: Idaho elects wilderness champ and foe to Congress
Idahoans protest use of 2,4,5-T on forests
Vigorous protests from Idaho citizens apparently have postponed the U.S. Forest Service’s plans to spray 60,000 acres of northern Idaho forests with pesticides including 2,4,5-T — the main ingredient in Agent Orange, used during the Vietnam War — as a way remove brush and speed the regeneration of new trees in clearcuts. Download entire issue […]
Posted inApril 7, 1978: Idaho elects wilderness champ and foe to Congress
Idaho elects wilderness champ and foe to Congress
Idaho voters continue to elect both Sen. Frank Church, who has gained a national reputation as an environmental leader, as well as Rep. Steve Symms, who is known for wanting to abolish the Environmental Protection Agency. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/10.7/download-entire-issue
Posted inMarch 24, 1978: Colorado, maverick of the inland Western states
USFS roadless land oil policy set
The U.S. Forest Service has issued policy guidelines for access and drilling on oil leases in roadless lands identified by the second Roadless Area Review and Evaluation (RARE II). The policy guidelines will be particularly important for national forests that lie over the Overthrust Belt. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/10.6/download-entire-issue
Posted inMarch 24, 1978: Colorado, maverick of the inland Western states
Colorado, maverick of the inland Western states
Colorado’s congressional delegation has the best environmental voting record of any state in the Northern Rockies. Only on the issue of water has Colorado recently voted as a typical inland Western delegation. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/10.6/download-entire-issue
Posted inMarch 24, 1978: Colorado, maverick of the inland Western states
Carter considers land agency shuffle
Like many presidents before him, President Jimmy Carter is interested in reorganizing the agencies that manage public land; the shuffle could involve moving the U.S. Forest Service to the Interior Department. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/10.6/download-entire-issue
Posted inMarch 10, 1978: The West mines, mills and worships radioactive fuel
Uranium mines and mills move more than mountains
Exploration for uranium on Green Mountain has brought more than 800 miles of roads, and the residents in the tiny nearby town of Jeffrey City, Wyo., notice the impacts on wildlife and on the way they relate to their neighbors. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/10.5/download-entire-issue
Posted inMarch 10, 1978: The West mines, mills and worships radioactive fuel
The West mines, mills and worships radioactive fuel
As with any other Western religion, the worship of uranium is a mixture of love and fear of the deity worshiped. And fear of radioactive uranium may be well justified. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/10.5/download-entire-issue