Mark Skrotzki cuts his teeth on Glenwood Canyon

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.

The forced resignation of Earl Adams, the director of Idaho’s Office of Energy, was the coup de grace in a long line of attacks by a hostile Republican-controlled legislature against efforts to set up a state energy conservation policy. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/9.3/download-entire-issue

Aldo Leopold might have spent his life happily stuck in a romantic age — chewing tobacco with other Forest Service employees, camping in the ponderosa forests and killing the hated wolf — but he possessed two traits that raised him above the average: capacity for perception and the ability to change. Download entire issue to […]

The Missouri Basin Power Project, a consortium of utilities, hopes to use construction of a 1,500 megawatt coal-fired power plant in Wheatland, Wyoming, as an example of industry turning a rural community into a lively place to live. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/9.2/download-entire-issue

Both critics and advocates are weighing in on the U.S. Bureau of Land Management’s drive to improve deteriorating range conditions on public lands in the West through a grazing system known as rest-rotation. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/9.1/download-entire-issue