Carving up Alaska and keeping one share wild

As if in return for the great mineral wealth that the nation is seeking on Alaska’s frontier, the Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act would give the nation millions of acres of public domain as new national parks, wildlife refuges, national forests, and wild and scenic rivers. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/9.10/download-entire-issue

The president’s call to nearly double coal development will disproportionately affect the region.

In the second of a two-part series, author Peter Wild recounts how Gifford Pinchot tramped through the West and schemed with President Teddy Roosevelt, and ultimately became chief of 16 million acres of forest reserves. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/9.9/download-entire-issue

In the wake of the defeated plans for the giant Kaiparowits power plant, another coal-fired power plant is planned for the canyon country of southern Utah — the 3,000 megawatt Intermountain Power Project, to be located 10 miles east of Capitol Reef National Park. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/9.9/download-entire-issue

Roughly two hundred years after the bald eagle was chosen as America’s national symbol, population studies conducted by the Department of Interior reveal a devastating nose-dive in the numbers of bald eagles. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/9.8/download-entire-issue

Gifford Pinchot is best remembered as the first head of the U.S. Forest Service, but he was also a man who for 20 years pined for his dead girlfriend, who astounded his own Republican party by appointing women and blacks to office, and who thought John Muir demented. The first in a two-part series about […]

For the Shoshone and Arapahoe Indian tribes, everything is at stake in a suit filed by the state of Wyoming requiring more than 20,000 water users in the Bighorn River basin to defend their water rights. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/9.8/download-entire-issue

Proposed water projects and uncontrolled pumping of groundwater for irrigation threaten the wide-flowing, flooding, living oasis that sandhill cranes call home on Nebraska’s Platte River. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/9.7/download-entire-issue

Although Utah is one of the first Western states to require all new buildings to meet energy conservation standards, it has also been instrumental in pushing the controversial Intermountain Power Project coal-fired power plant. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/9.6/download-entire-issue

Joseph Wood Krutch probably did more than any other writer to change society’s opinion toward what it had long looked on as undifferentiated wasteland — the deserts of the American Southwest. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/9.6/download-entire-issue

Tens of thousands of gallons of Agent Orange — which was used by the U.S. military to denude forests during the Vietnam War, causing major ecological and human health problems — now wait in regulatory limbo as the Environmental Protection Agency considers how the chemical might be used in the United States. Download entire issue […]

Using geothermal energy to warm your home and heat your water may sound like a far-fetched idea, but some residents of Warm Springs Avenue in Boise, Idaho, have been doing it for 85 years. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/9.5/download-entire-issue

Today, with rising energy costs, wood burning is probably the fastest growing form of alternative renewable energy use. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/9.4/download-entire-issue

See a list of all High Country News articles published in 1974, 1975, and 1976, categorized by subject. Click link to view PDF. This article appeared in the print edition of the magazine with the headline 1974-76 Index.