The Burlington Northern and the Chicago Northwestern have applied to the Interstate Commerce Commission for a permit to build a new 120-mile rail line between Gillette and Douglas for transporting coal. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/6.8/download-entire-issue
Wyoming coalfields – scene of conflict
Posted inApril 12, 1974: Judge calls showdown in Montana
Leslie Peterson, WEI President
Leslie Peterson became an environmentalist when she saw that the trees weren’t growing back on timber clearcuts in Wyoming’s Shoshone National Forest. She noticed the scare as a small child, because she grew up in the forestry business. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/6.8/download-entire-issue
Posted inApril 12, 1974: Judge calls showdown in Montana
Judge calls showdown in Montana
Montana Gov. Thomas Judge has notified Interior Secretary Rogers Morton that the state will take the lead in regulating coal-fired power plants, rather than waiting for federal environmental impact statements for plants like Colstrip. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/6.8/download-entire-issue
Posted inMarch 29, 1974: Harnessing limitless energy
Solar powered history
A photo essay on the origins and history of solar power. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/6.7/download-entire-issue
Posted inMarch 29, 1974: Harnessing limitless energy
Rangers to restore fire in the Tetons
A National Park Service plan to use “safe,” prescribed wildfires to restore pristine ecological conditions in Grand Teton National Park may signal the end of the Smoky Bear era. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/6.7/download-entire-issue
Posted inMarch 29, 1974: Harnessing limitless energy
Harnessing limitless energy
As independent, idealistic inventors forge ahead with plans to heat buildings with the sun, traditional institutions and businesses are taking cautious steps in the same direction. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/6.7/download-entire-issue
Posted inMarch 15, 1974: On the verge of extinction
On the verge of extinction
The blunt-nosed leopard lizard, the Hawaiian hoary bat and the light-footed clapper — all endangered species — don’t receive the attention they deserve. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/6.6/download-entire-issue
Posted inMarch 15, 1974: On the verge of extinction
Grizzly, go home!
A dramatization of a bear’s encounter with police and tourists — how will it end? Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/6.6/download-entire-issue
Posted inMarch 15, 1974: On the verge of extinction
Bighorn sheep: a precarious balance
For the bighorn sheep who once grazed further down in the valleys than they do today, the rise of the cattle industry after the Civil War marked the beginning of their decline. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/6.6/download-entire-issue
Posted inMarch 1, 1974: North Dakota's riskiest harvest
North Dakota’s riskiest harvest
North Dakota landowners and policy makers are weighing the “one-time harvest” of strippable lignite coal against the productivity of agricultural land that would be sacrificed. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/6.5/download-entire-issue
Posted inMarch 1, 1974: North Dakota's riskiest harvest
Garrison Diversion threatens the prairies
A group of ranchers, farmers and conservationists are fighting for a moratorium on the Garrison Diversion, an irrigation project that would pump 871,000 acre-feet of Missouri River water through 1,800 miles of major canals and laterals. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/6.5/download-entire-issue
Posted inMarch 1, 1974: North Dakota's riskiest harvest
Chuck Perry: watchdog over coal harvest
Chuck Perry grew up in North Dakota, the breadbasket of the nation. Today he is leading the fight against strip mining that breadbasket. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/6.5/download-entire-issue
Posted inFebruary 15, 1974: The hidden costs of coal
The hidden costs of coal
Arnold Miller, the leader of the United Mine Workers of America, discusses the energy crisis and the coal industry. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/6.4/download-entire-issue
Posted inFebruary 15, 1974: The hidden costs of coal
BLM tightens controls
The Bureau of Land Management is initiating a program designed to halt serious environmental degradation caused by those who lease BLM land to extract oil and gas. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/6.4/download-entire-issue
Posted inFebruary 15, 1974: The hidden costs of coal
Are the grizzlies endangered?
Hunting pressure outside Yellowstone National Park, coupled with a controversial grizzly management program within the park, are some of the reasons that grizzly bear numbers are declining. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/6.4/download-entire-issue
Posted inFebruary 10, 1974: Everything you aren't supposed to know about nuclear power
Pat Sweeny and the Northern Plains Resource Council
A conversation with Pat Sweeny of the Northern Plains Resource Council, which was recently recognized as the outstanding conservation organization of the year by the Rocky Mountain Center on Environment. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/6.3/download-entire-issue
Posted inFebruary 10, 1974: Everything you aren't supposed to know about nuclear power
Everything you aren’t supposed to know about nuclear power
Even as 146 nuclear power plants are under construction or on order — on top of 36 nuclear power plants already operating — public understanding of peaceful use of atomic energy has been inhibited by the Atomic Energy Commission. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/6.3/download-entire-issue
Posted inFebruary 10, 1974: Everything you aren't supposed to know about nuclear power
Comprehensive coal planning?
A U.S. District Court judge last week heard arguments for and against coal development in the Powder River Basin, ahead of a ruling that could temporarily freeze the government’s role in the development and shape future coal planning. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/6.3/download-entire-issue
Posted inJanuary 18, 1974: Oil shale fever rises in West
The Colorado Open Space Council
The Colorado Open Space Council is taking political organizing seriously after Colorado environmentalists were overrun by Denver Water Board’s plan to divert water from the state’s Western slope in order to feed Denver’s growth. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/6.2/download-entire-issue
Posted inJanuary 18, 1974: Oil shale fever rises in West
Oil shale fever rises in West
With the present shortage of crude oil, industry is bidding hundreds of millions of dollars on leases to tap shale oil on public lands in Colorado, Utah and Wyoming. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/6.2/download-entire-issue