The miracle may be happening. Reaction to our decision to cease publication was so swift and decisive that now, barring unforeseen circumstances, High Country News appears to be saved. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/5.6/download-entire-issue
Optimism reigns
Posted inMarch 2, 1973: Water report analyzed
Water report analyzed
These comments on the National Water Commission’s recent report are representative of the feelings of most Westerners who have no special interest in water development, irrigation projects, barge canals or dam building. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/5.5/download-entire-issue
Posted inMarch 2, 1973: Water report analyzed
The politics of legislating
The author observes Wyoming’s Forty-Second Legislature as it considers strip mining legislation. Part one in a two-part series. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/5.5/download-entire-issue
Posted inMarch 2, 1973: Water report analyzed
Take pork-barrel out of water projects
A report by the National Water Commission offers America a chance to take the pork-barrel politics out of federal financing of dams, flood control projects, canals and irrigation, says the National Audubon Society. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/5.5/download-entire-issue
Posted inFebruary 16, 1973: The crisis in energy: strip-mining laws
The crisis in energy: strip-mining laws
As Montana and Wyoming struggle to enact protective legislation in the face of ever-expanding strip mining, landowners, environmentalists and an awakening public are being pitted against the energy lobby. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/5.4/download-entire-issue
Posted inFebruary 16, 1973: The crisis in energy: strip-mining laws
Sierra Club sets energy policy
The Sierra Club is proposing energy economics reforms that would rapidly phase out all kinds of economic subsidies to fossil-fuel energy industries. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/5.4/download-entire-issue
Posted inFebruary 16, 1973: The crisis in energy: strip-mining laws
Clarks Fork is dirty
Farming and ranching practices insensitive to erosion in the area that drains into the Clarks Fork of Yellowstone River in Montana are causing problems for stream life and for cities like Billings that rely on the Clarks Fork for drinking water. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/5.4/download-entire-issue
Posted inFebruary 2, 1973: America's wilderness: a chance to decide
The limits to parks
Overpopulation in our national parks of the two-legged and 4-wheeled varieties threatens to destroy the very thing visitors come to see. Wilderness quality is rapidly being displaced by quantity in the growing numbers of visitors, vehicles and facilities in the parks. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/5.3/download-entire-issue
Posted inFebruary 2, 1973: America's wilderness: a chance to decide
Our future foreclosed?
We cannot forever live off the land. We must begin now to live with the land. We have gained much that is valuable, but we have lost much that is irreplaceable. Only recently have we begun to realize the cost of what has been gained. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/5.3/download-entire-issue
Posted inFebruary 2, 1973: America's wilderness: a chance to decide
America’s wilderness: a chance to decide
The Multiple Use and Sustained Yield Act of 1960, the Wilderness Act of 1964 and a string of court cases during the past decade have laid the groundwork for preserving the West’s wild lands — but the next few years will be a critical time of decision-making. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/5.3/download-entire-issue
Posted inJanuary 19, 1973: The crisis in energy: impact on Montana
The crisis in energy: impact on Montana
Nothing in recent years has stirred the people of Montana quite so much as the problems of the energy crisis — in particular, how the rapid build-up of industry around the state’s vast coal fields will change the state’s character. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/5.2/download-entire-issue
Posted inJanuary 19, 1973: The crisis in energy: impact on Montana
Cultural clash in canyonlands
The vast canyonlands country in southeastern Utah is both a joy and a sorrow to archaeologists — a joy because of the rich treasure of early Amerind sites and artifacts still to be found there, and a sorrow because these irreplaceable traces of aboriginal American culture are so rapidly being destroyed. Download entire issue to […]
Posted inJanuary 19, 1973: The crisis in energy: impact on Montana
Controversy in Jackson Hole
The congressional and presidential decision to finance a $2.2 million airport expansion to accommodate jets in Grand Teton National Park is an extension of an already flagrant violation of the park’s stated conservation policy. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/5.2/download-entire-issue
Posted inJanuary 5, 1973: The crisis in energy: exploiting the West
Wild Horse Annie: a Western legend
An HCN interview with Mrs. Velma B. Johnson, a.k.a. “Wild Horse Annie,” shortly before she was appointed to the Wild Horse and Burro Advisory Board. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/5.1/download-entire-issue
Posted inJanuary 5, 1973: The crisis in energy: exploiting the West
The crisis in energy: exploiting the West
The coming energy crunch will cause a frenzied battle over the West’s coal, gas and oil in the name of sustaining America’s oversized appetite for energy and economic growth. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/5.1/download-entire-issue
Posted inJanuary 5, 1973: The crisis in energy: exploiting the West
Oil shale: a problem of waste
If all goes as planned by the U.S. Department of Interior, the western fringe of the Piceance Basin in northwestern Colorado will become home to huge landfills to house the “spent shale” produced by oil shale extraction. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/5.1/download-entire-issue
Posted inDecember 22, 1972: A look back
Wild Horse Annie: A Western legend
An HCN interview with Wild Horse Annie, whose discoveries about the condition of wild horses shocked her so deeply that she would dedicate her life to becoming an advocate on the horses’ behalf. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/4.26/download-entire-issue
Posted inDecember 22, 1972: A look back
A need for Indian culture
Americans are beginning to rediscover their priceless Indian heritage, a movement driven in large part by a growing ethno-ecological sense that man’s various cultures and peoples are parts of a unified whole. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/4.26/download-entire-issue
Posted inDecember 8, 1972: Disaster a matter of timing
Sheeptight fencing kills antelope
Blizzards across Wyoming’s Red Desert in the early winter of 1971 pushed antelope herds against impenetrable fences, and thousands of antelope perished. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/4.25/download-entire-issue
Posted inDecember 8, 1972: Disaster a matter of timing
Disaster a matter of timing
Magnificent Lake Powell in southern Utah is only a scant few years old, but already two major disasters have overtaken it, and a third hangs ominously over its headwaters. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/4.25/download-entire-issue