Reviewing the energy crisis

A summary of the state of various renewable energy technologies and their context within the politics of fossil fuels and the energy crisis. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/5.12/download-entire-issue

When the courts blocked the construction of the trans-Alaska pipeline, they gave Congress the opportunity and responsibility to obtain an environmentally sound answer to the Alaskan oil development question — a decision that’s coming due. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/5.12/download-entire-issue

A fever has broken out in South Dakota. Symptoms are the ‘desire to hike’ wilderness trails, an adventuring instinct, and a love for untapped nature. It’s called back-packingitis. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/5.11/download-entire-issue

Following the disastrous episode of the oil spill in the San Juan River, and the consequent danger of oil pollution in Lake Powell, the question has been raised of other potential disasters in that southern Utah area. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/5.11/download-entire-issue

A recent report by the National Center for Voluntary Action stresses that one of the major problems facing the environmental movement is lack of government cooperation and encouragement. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/5.10/download-entire-issue

Bear Lake, which straddles the Utah-Idaho border, attracts fishermen, bird-watchers, and others who come to enjoy its cool waters. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/5.10/download-entire-issue

Years after the construction of the Libby Dam on the Kootenai River in Montana forced a re-routing of a Burlington Northern rail line, the area cleared for the rail line remains an open sore on the land. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/5.9/download-entire-issue

Project Rio Blanco, a partnership between CER Geonuclear Corp. and the Atomic Energy Commission, will detonate three 30-kiloton nuclear devices underground in northwest Colorado to stimulate extraction of hydrocarbons. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/5.9/download-entire-issue

Pending federal legislation would establish a wildlife refuge in California’s Owens Valley for tule elk, a subspecies of North American elk that once thrived on the east side of the Sierra Nevada Mountains. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/5.8/download-entire-issue

Acting Secretary of Interior John Whitaker has issued a letter of reprimand to Dean Visintainer, a rancher who pleaded guilty to shooting several golden eagles from an aircraft in northwestern Colorado. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/5.8/download-entire-issue

Since the 1930s, the Salmon River Breaks Primitive Area, the Idaho Primitive Area and adjacent lands have been managed to preserve their wild character; now, the Forest Service is required by the 1964 Wilderness Act to recommend to Congress whether these lands should be formally designated as wilderness. Download entire issue to view this article: […]

Many of the sheep ranchers who have been complaining loudest about losses they claim to have suffered from coyotes, according to the National Audubon Society, are those who have been getting the fattest subsidy checks from the federal government. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/5.7/download-entire-issue

The author observes the debate and vote on Wyoming’s House Bill 22A, which would regulate reclamation and other aspects of strip mining. Part two in a two-part series. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/5.6/download-entire-issue

Before the extensive and indiscriminate use of the pesticide DDT starting in 1946, the peregrine falcon was one of the most prolific and widespread birds of prey in the U.S.; now it is a recent addition to the endangered species list. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/5.6/download-entire-issue