U.S. Brings Agent Orange back home

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

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