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
You can invent an energy system
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
Posted inFebruary 13, 1976: BLM farm plans hold promise, problems
BLM farm plans hold promise, problems
Lack of clear goals for Idaho agriculture becomes more evident as the U.S. Bureau of Land Management wrestles with plans to convert thousands of acres of desert lands managed by that agency into individual private farms sanctioned by the Desert Land Act and the Carey Act. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/8.4/download-entire-issue
Posted inJanuary 30, 1976: Donkey dilemma damages public land
John McComb: a natural for the job
People envy John McComb, Southwest Representative of the Sierra Club, because they think he gets paid to hike through the deserts and mountains surrounding Tuscon, Arizona. But he works 70-80 hours per week, believing that dedication and patience are two essential qualities for his profession. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/8.3/download-entire-issue
Posted inJanuary 30, 1976: Donkey dilemma damages public land
Donkey dilemma damages public land
Damage to sensitive desert ecosystems is causing some to take a hard look at the Wild Free Roaming Horse and Burro Act of 1971, which was the first time Congress gave full protection to a non-native species animal. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/8.3/download-entire-issue
Posted inJanuary 30, 1976: Donkey dilemma damages public land
Coal moves east because of automatic fuel clause
Although coal strip-mined from the Northern Plains is more expensive for Eastern utilities to use, there are several reasons — including recent changes in utility regulations — why these utilities don’t buy local. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/8.3/download-entire-issue
Posted inJanuary 16, 1976: Court lifts Powder River injunction
Planning progresses unevenly in West
A summary of trends in the Western states’ land-use regulations, including court actions, energy citing rules, and tax incentives. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/8.2/download-entire-issue
Posted inJanuary 16, 1976: Court lifts Powder River injunction
Mineral withdrawals: death of 1,000 cuts?
A wave of controversial mining proposals has led to a call for putting certain public lands off-limits to mining, but the mining industry is concerned that too much land is being considered for these restrictions. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/8.2/download-entire-issue