When conservationists get together to talk shop, June Viavant talks canyons. The Escalante Canyon, in particular, has been her obsession since the ’60s. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/7.11/download-entire-issue
Utahn fights to save southwestern canyons
Posted inMay 23, 1975: Ski Yellowstone forces choice
Ski Yellowstone forces choice
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
Posted inMay 23, 1975: Ski Yellowstone forces choice
Escudilla battle eco-tactics explored
An update on Arizona conservationists’ fight to save the state’s third highest peak, Escudilla Mountain, from logging, with comments from local citizen activists on their tactics. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/7.11/download-entire-issue
Posted inMay 9, 1975: Southwestern cultures collide
Strip mining bill heads towards uncertain future on Ford’s desk
After compromises were made to a first strip mining bill, which President Gerald Ford vetoed last year, a second version awaits Ford’s decision. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/7.10/download-entire-issue
Posted inMay 9, 1975: Southwestern cultures collide
Southwestern cultures collide
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
Posted inMay 9, 1975: Southwestern cultures collide
Laney Hicks keeps Sierra Club on front page
Laney Hicks, the Northern Plains Representative of the Sierra Club, has made good on her goal of getting good press coverage. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/7.10/download-entire-issue
Posted inApril 25, 1975: Who profits from our coal?
Who profits from our coal?
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
Posted inApril 25, 1975: Who profits from our coal?
Washington solons direct a few energy dollars toward the sun
The Energy Research and Development Administration has taken preliminary steps toward creating a small, solar energy pilot plant in the southwestern U.S. by 1980. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/7.9/download-entire-issue
Posted inApril 25, 1975: Who profits from our coal?
Montana levies nation’s highest coal tax
The Montana legislature has passed what is probably the highest tax on coal in the nation — 30% on the sale price of subbituminous coal and 20% on the sale price of lignite. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/7.9/download-entire-issue
Posted inApril 11, 1975: Ford taps Stan Hathaway for Interior
Guy named as regional energy director
Expectations for William L. Guy, director of the Western Governors’ Energy Policy Center, range from complete confidence to the belief that his selection might foretell the failure of the office itself. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/7.8/download-entire-issue
Posted inApril 11, 1975: Ford taps Stan Hathaway for Interior
Friend of the earth and strip mine showman
Ed Dobson wanted to be a baseball player, and later, a sports broadcaster. But a hike to the Grand Canyon clinched his future in the West, and he now runs a traveling show about the ills of strip mining. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/7.8/download-entire-issue
Posted inApril 11, 1975: Ford taps Stan Hathaway for Interior
Ford taps Stan Hathaway for Interior
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
Posted inMarch 28, 1975: Taking the lifeblood from the land
Taking the lifeblood from the land
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
Posted inMarch 28, 1975: Taking the lifeblood from the land
Rocky Mountain timber cut to drop
The U.S. Forest Service has warned that by the end of the century, timber harvest on the national forests of the Rocky Mountain West will drop by eight percent or more. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/7.7/download-entire-issue
Posted inMarch 28, 1975: Taking the lifeblood from the land
Gila Wilderness: Pocket of isolation
The Gila Wilderness — the world’s oldest formally protected wilderness area — is an area of startling contrasts. In the canyons, brilliant red-flowered cacti bloom from crevices in the walls and purple violets flower in the damp maple, alder and oak streamside forests. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/7.7/download-entire-issue
Posted inMarch 14, 1975: Habitat destruction threatens wildlife
Wyoming passes siting, land use bills
Bart Koehler, the director of the Wyoming Outdoor Council and the Wyoming Citizens Lobby, put in the long hours to push two key bills through Wyoming’s legislature. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/7.6/download-entire-issue
Posted inMarch 14, 1975: Habitat destruction threatens wildlife
Habitat destruction threatens wildlife
The theme of this year’s National Wildlife Week is “We Care About Animal Habitat,” and one of the animals that has had the greatest assaults on its habitat is the American peregrine falcon. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/7.6/download-entire-issue
Posted inMarch 14, 1975: Habitat destruction threatens wildlife
Flow reservations — water under the bridge?
A flow reservation — water which must be left in the river — cannot override the water rights of a rancher, even if the stream is over-appropriated, but it can compete with future industrial water demands. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/7.6/download-entire-issue
Posted inFebruary 28, 1975: Abracadabra! Idaho Power cleans up stacks
The Idaho Conservation League
This session, the Idaho Conservation League will be active lobbying for a seven-bill land use package, a power plant siting bill, and a bottle bill. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/7.5/download-entire-issue
Posted inFebruary 28, 1975: Abracadabra! Idaho Power cleans up stacks
Abracadabra! Idaho Power cleans up stacks
In Idaho Power’s brochure, a confident and ever-smiling Reddy Kilowatt perches on an electrostatic precipitator, his three-fingered hand raised toward a drawing of the Jim Bridger power plant’s smokestacks — “99 plus % clean.” Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/7.5/download-entire-issue