Aldo Leopold saw a ‘fierce green fire’ die

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

If depression followed Bernard DeVoto as he left the West, it was a mood he eventually harnessed to drive his creativity and become one of the most controversial writers — and one of the most effective conservationists — of the mid-20th century. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/9.1/download-entire-issue

At a time when energy prices are making it increasingly difficult for people to make ends meet, Malcolm Lillywhite shows people simple technology that they can use to produce quality food and shelter at low cost. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/8.25/download-entire-issue

Unknowns are plaguing oil shale development southwest of Vernal, Utah, but the burst of optimism for oil shale in the early 1970s has many local residents saying that extraction of oil from their abundant rock is inevitable. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/8.24/download-entire-issue

Steven Mather entered the Interior Department before the National Park Service existed, and helped consolidate the national parks under a strong mission of preservation. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/8.24/download-entire-issue

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has released its suggested boundaries for grizzly bear habitat in the Lower 48 States; many high country residents are up in arms because activities like logging, according to the FWS, may have to be “modified” in critical habitat. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/8.23/download-entire-issue

Boulder, Colorado, has become the first community in the Rocky Mountain West to attempt to slow down its growth rate by city ordinance, which will limit the amount of new housing. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/8.23/download-entire-issue

Residents of Weld County, Colorado, are worried that proposed uranium mining in the area will destroy farmland. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/8.22/download-entire-issue

Rock Springs — Wyoming’s best known boom town — has become a symbol of what happens to a town when development hits suddenly, leaving local officials unprepared. HCN chatted informally with Rock Springs oldtimers about the continuing effects of the boom. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/8.22/download-entire-issue

Unstable supplies of bauxite — the main raw material of aluminum — have prompted the government and industry to search for new bauxite substitutes such as alunite. Southwest Utah has that resource and residents there are apparently welcoming the industry. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/8.22/download-entire-issue