The Interior Department is facing off against the Sierra Club and 22 states, who have asked the court to not weaken mechanisms in the National Environmental Policy Act that mandate environmental impact statements for federal projects such as coal development. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/8.10/download-entire-issue
Supreme Court hears plains coal case
Posted inMay 7, 1976: House bill prompts public lands alert
House bill prompts public lands alert
A coalition of 19 conservation organizations warns that the proposed Federal Land Policy and Management Act (FLPMA) of 1976 would severely limit the federal government’s ability to protect long-term natural resource values, putting the nation’s public lands at risk. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/8.10/download-entire-issue
Posted inMay 7, 1976: House bill prompts public lands alert
Doggedly working to save Escudilla Mountain
Buzz and Mary Anne Youens anticipated a quiet life when they built a cabin in Arizona’s isolated White Mountains in the early 1970s, but a nearby timber sale turned them into activists. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/8.10/download-entire-issue
Posted inApril 23, 1976: Kaiparowits coal power plans scuttled
Kaiparowits coal power plans scuttled
Southern California Edison has backed down from its plan to construct the controversial 3,000 megawatt Kaiparowits coal-fired power plant in central Utah, citing increasing costs, environmental constraints, and pending regulatory legislation. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/8.9/download-entire-issue
Posted inApril 23, 1976: Kaiparowits coal power plans scuttled
Citizens challenge Wheatland ruling
The Laramie River Conservation Council is challenging the Wyoming Industrial Siting Council’s decision to allow construction of the 1,500 megawatt Missouri Basin Power Project coal-fired power plant near Wheatland, Wyoming. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/8.9/download-entire-issue
Posted inApril 23, 1976: Kaiparowits coal power plans scuttled
Cartoons, counseling, and butterflies
When HCN cartoonist Rob Pudim isn’t slaying social dragons, he’s often out catching butterflies or helping out with Boulder’s methadone program. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/8.9/download-entire-issue
Posted inApril 9, 1976: 'Either we share it or we lose it'
You can invent an energy system
At a conference hosted by Montana-based Alternative Energy Resources Organization, participants were encouraged to start tinkering — to design a home-built solar energy system out of local materials that would suit their particular climate, site, and financial resources. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/8.8/download-entire-issue
Posted inApril 9, 1976: 'Either we share it or we lose it'
Success formula: don’t waste time losing
Priscilla Robinson, the director of the Southwest Environmental Service, says that the key to lobbying is to recognize that the political person is a whole person and to give him a chance. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/8.8/download-entire-issue
Posted inApril 9, 1976: 'Either we share it or we lose it'
‘Either we share it or we lose it’
The proposal to designate a big chunk of wild land in Idaho as the River of No Return Wilderness has created new conflicts that jeopardize the land’s longstanding wild character. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/8.8/download-entire-issue
Posted inMarch 26, 1976: Jackson Hole wrestles with growth
Jackson Hole wrestles with growth
Jackson Hole officials have tried to shape and slow the rapid growth sparked by the opening of the Teton Village Ski Area in 1966, but their efforts haven’t been enough. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/8.7/download-entire-issue
Posted inMarch 26, 1976: Jackson Hole wrestles with growth
How to get out the conservation message
KOA-TV Science Editor Don Kinney gives tips on press releases, editorials, and other methods for spreading a conservation message. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/8.7/download-entire-issue
Posted inMarch 26, 1976: Jackson Hole wrestles with growth
Cattle ranching in a recreational area
Bob Child, a rancher in Colorado’s Roaring Fork Valley, is trying to promote an experimental program aimed at preserving what’s left of the valley’s cattle grazing industry. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/8.7/download-entire-issue
Posted inMarch 12, 1976: Saving swamps for ducks and men
Water policies to start at local basins
Many residents in the Missouri River Basin of Montana, Wyoming, and North Dakota are now being asked to wrestle with a problem that has harassed bureaucrats for years — determining water use priorities. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/8.6/download-entire-issue
Posted inMarch 12, 1976: Saving swamps for ducks and men
Should you buy solar now — or wait?
HCN talks with architect and engineer Dick Crowther about whether the smart consumer should hold out for lower prices, better technology, and companies with better established reputations. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/8.6/download-entire-issue
Posted inMarch 12, 1976: Saving swamps for ducks and men
Saving swamps for ducks and men
Although swamps have historically been viewed as unattractive and worthless, a building movement — buoyed by federal laws — recognizes wetlands as havens for wildlife that also hold and purify water used by humans. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/8.6/download-entire-issue
Posted inFebruary 27, 1976: Salesmen with sun power woo West
Salesmen with sun power woo West
The solar energy industry is a booming business, containing all of the perils of rapid growth — fast-buck men, scant history, few standards and regulations, and consumer confusion. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/8.5/download-entire-issue
Posted inFebruary 27, 1976: Salesmen with sun power woo West
Air rules soft on smelters
The bill upon which many hopes rested for preventing the giant Kaiparowits power plant has been seriously weakened by the Senate Public Works Committee, according to the National Clean Air Coalition. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/8.5/download-entire-issue
Posted inFebruary 27, 1976: Salesmen with sun power woo West
A lifetime watching the wilderness
Ann and Myron Sutton are students and teachers of the wilderness, having studied hundreds of wilderness areas in nearly 40 countries and written over 20 books on the wild outdoors. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/8.5/download-entire-issue
Posted inFebruary 13, 1976: BLM farm plans hold promise, problems
Sulfur dioxide control battle rages
Despite an agreement between Pacific Power and Light Co. and the state of Wyoming, a battle still rages over sulfur dioxide control equipment at the Jim Bridger coal-fired power plant and other polluting facilities. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/8.4/download-entire-issue
Posted inFebruary 13, 1976: BLM farm plans hold promise, problems
Mike Frome nails resource scandals
Conservation writer Michael Frome is well-qualified to comment on the risks of speaking out — he’s spent much of his career nailing down natural resource scandals and naming the people responsible, and has lost two jobs for his candor. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/8.4/download-entire-issue