Miners attack coal strip mining law

Garrett Hardin’s confrontations with some of the most basic tenets of Western civilization have piqued racial minorities, sociologists, churchmen, political liberals and conservatives alike. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/9.18/download-entire-issue

Concerned citizens in Montana’s North Fork Flathead River valley are organizing against a proposal by Sage Creek Coal Ltd. to mine coal upstream, across the Canadian border. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/9.18/download-entire-issue

ANG Coal Gasification Company quieted opposition to its plans for a facility in North Dakota by purchasing land owned by members of the community who opposed the project. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/9.17/download-entire-issue

The Bureau of Reclamation may begin a reservation system for the Desolation Canyon section of Utah’s Green River amid concerns about the growing number of river visitors. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/9.17/download-entire-issue

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has approved the Northern Cheyenne Indian tribe’s request for Class I — the most stringent classification — air quality for its reservation, a decision that could have a major impact on nearby construction of the Colstrip power plant units 3 and 4. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/9.16/download-entire-issue

John Muir, the legendary preservationist who wandered the Sierra Nevada, tends to be viewed as a hero dressed in simple guise; a closer look shows him as a complex man, like the rest of us capable of gloom and hesitation. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/9.16/download-entire-issue

Recent headlines saying that 22 Indian tribes are meeting with the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) have brought national attention to the Council of Energy Resource Tribes, an organization that had virtually been ignored since its formation in 1975. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/9.15/download-entire-issue

Enos Abijah Mills, after years living primitively in the shadow of Colorado’s Long’s Peak, had a chance encounter with John Muir that apparently inspired him to work for the preservation of Colorado’s high Rockies. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/9.15/download-entire-issue

In the year of the drought, in the middle of Wyoming’s Red Desert, Union 76’s Minerals Exploration Co. faces an ironic problem: what to do with a pesky 11,000 acre-feet per year of good quality ground water that will seep into its proposed open pit uranium mine. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/9.14/download-entire-issue

HCN editor Dan Whipple takes stock of the environmental movement and its quest for clout in the political system. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/9.14/download-entire-issue

A ski resort, power line, and timber development threaten efforts to designate one of the nation’s largest contiguous roadless expanses — Montana’s Madison Range — as potential wilderness. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/9.13/download-entire-issue

A Colorado company called Bio-Gas claims it can provide rural electricity by harvesting and digesting cow manure to produce burnable methane gas. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/9.13/download-entire-issue

A group led by the Bureau of Reclamation and the Bureau of Land Management embarks along Wyoming’s Sweetwater Canyon to determine whether this river section measures up to Wild and Scenic status. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/9.12/download-entire-issue