‘Irrigation water’ all goes to industry

Although Wyoming’s Fontenelle Reservoir was built under pretense of providing water mostly for irrigation, it is useless for agriculture — and may have been intended all along to serve industry. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/7.13/download-entire-issue

Tight competition for water in the West is forcing the U.S. government to assert its rights under the federal water reservation doctrine, which maintains that the federal government reserved all the water necessary to operate Indian reservations, national forests, national parks, and oil reserves. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/7.12/download-entire-issue

Debate follows the decision to transfer three wildlife ranges — the Kofa Game Range in Arizona, the Charles Sheldon Antelope Range in Nevada, and the Charles M. Russell National Wildlife Range in Montana — to sole management by the Bureau of Land Management, after years of dual management with the Fish and Wildlife Service. Download […]

The Montana Wilderness Association proposes an alternative to Ski Yellowstone, a ski area and real estate development that would bring clearcut ski runs and hundreds of condos to the Hebgen Lake area near Yellowstone National Park. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/7.11/download-entire-issue

The Four Corners power plant is a monument of the Navajo Nation’s collision of cultures: the traditional ways that respect the land and the intruding pressure of technology and growth. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/7.10/download-entire-issue

During the past 20 years federal incompetence has allowed billions of tons of public coal to fall into the hands of the corporate giants of the energy industry. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/7.9/download-entire-issue

To understand newly appointed Secretary of the Interior Stan Hathaway, one must understand the history of Wyoming. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/7.8/download-entire-issue

Traditionally, cities on Colorado’s Front Range have turned to the state’s western slope when local water supplies were exhausted. But with strong environmentalist protest to trans-mountain diversion schemes, thirsty growth centers are looking elsewhere — to agricultural water. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/7.7/download-entire-issue