As Wyoming Senator Clifford Hansen pushes legislation to construct an aqueduct system that would divert water for industrial use in the Powder River Basin in Montana and Wyoming, plans for escalating extraction of coal are coming out into public view. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/4.11/download-entire-issue
Western coal development moves closer to realization
Posted inMay 26, 1972: Western coal development moves closer to realization
Valid concerns expressed
Two anonymous federal employees tally up the total potential impacts — on water, community development, wildlife, and more — of the energy projects like the North Central Power Study project that are proposed for the Powder River Basin. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/4.11/download-entire-issue
Posted inMay 26, 1972: Western coal development moves closer to realization
Hidden Story
The Bureau of Reclamation concealed its study of the Montana-Wyoming aqueduct — a key part of the plan to radically expand coal energy production in the Powder River Basin — by distorting the Freedom of Information Act. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/4.11/download-entire-issue
Posted inMay 12, 1972: Storm brews over Utah
Winning plan for a floodplain
Major flooding of the South Platte River in 1965 forced Denver residents to take a new look at their ugliest eye-sore: a 13-mile stretch of the river that has been used as a junk yard. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/4.10/download-entire-issue
Posted inMay 12, 1972: Storm brews over Utah
Storm brews over Utah
The Bureau of Reclamation faces off with local opponents over a proposed dam that would inundate China Meadows, a choice spot in Utah’s Uinta Mountains. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/4.10/download-entire-issue
Posted inMay 12, 1972: Storm brews over Utah
Rainbow Bridge – an objective summary
The problem of Lake Powell’s rising waters entering Rainbow Bridge National Monument are summarized and analyzed from three angles: the political/economic, the legal, and the practical. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/4.10/download-entire-issue
Posted inApril 28, 1972: National Parks - what future?
Wilderness and Multiple Use
When wilderness is brought up for discussion in private groups or at public meetings, fact and fancy mix in an improbable way. One, of the major fallacies often mentioned is that multiple use and wilderness management are at opposite ends of the management spectrum. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/4.9/download-entire-issue
Posted inApril 28, 1972: National Parks - what future?
These chiselers really work
Tobe Wilkins and Jim Adams have spent the last 17 years chiseling away at the fossilized remains of more than 200 ancient beasts embedded in a 180-foot long, 40-foot high vertical wall in Dinosaur National Monument. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/4.9/download-entire-issue
Posted inApril 28, 1972: National Parks - what future?
National Parks – what future?
The centennial of the establishment of Yellowstone National Park is a time to assess how the national parks can be made an even more meaningful part of our personal lives, especially because they are today under siege from various quarters. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/4.9/download-entire-issue
Posted inApril 14, 1972: Huge new complex proposed
The environmental effects of nuclear power, Part 4
A nuclear scientist explains how the liquid-metal fast-breeder reactor works, and asks: is it the least of the evils? Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/4.8/download-entire-issue
Posted inApril 14, 1972: Huge new complex proposed
No mining in the White Clouds
Idaho’s White Clouds mountain area would be ruined for recreation by an open pit molybdenum mine, according to a draft of a Department of Interior study. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/4.8/download-entire-issue
Posted inApril 14, 1972: Huge new complex proposed
Huge new complex proposed
Reynolds Metals Co. has announced a proposal to build a uranium enrichment plant near Buffalo, Wyo., that would cost at least $2.2 billion. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/4.8/download-entire-issue
Posted inMarch 31, 1972: Aquatic deserts on the march
The environmental effects of nuclear power, Part 3
A nuclear scientist explains: the environmental impacts of nuclear power fall into two broad categories — those caused by escaped radioactivity, and those caused by the release of waste heat. In the coming years at least, the most harmful impacts will be from waste heat. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/4.7/download-entire-issue
Posted inMarch 31, 1972: Aquatic deserts on the march
Sulfur tax proposal needs strengthening
The Coalition to Tax Pollution, an organization of major environmental groups, has noted with pleasure that the federal government has unveiled a long-awaited proposal to tax sulfur pollution. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/4.7/download-entire-issue
Posted inMarch 31, 1972: Aquatic deserts on the march
Aquatic deserts on the march
The portion of the Logan River in Utah’s Cache Valley was a brown trout haven — until the Army Corps of Engineers dredged the stream for flood control, removing much of the vegetation that provided ideal habitat. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/4.7/download-entire-issue
Posted inMarch 17, 1972: Last chance for wilderness
Tribute to a conservationist
Guy M. Brandborg of Hamilton, Mont., is a forester of the old school. He is one of that breed which had as its contemporaries such giants as Aldo Leopold and Bob Marshall, and he may one day be remembered as one with them. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/4.6/download-entire-issue
Posted inMarch 17, 1972: Last chance for wilderness
States’ rights battle looms
Sportsmen in Wyoming and at least nine other western states are currently facing a battle with various individuals and lobbies who want a national hunting license that would charge the same fee for residents and non-residents. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/4.6/download-entire-issue
Posted inMarch 17, 1972: Last chance for wilderness
Last chance for wilderness
The Wilderness Act set a 1974 deadline for considering all remaining primitive and roadless areas for wilderness designation, and as that deadline approaches, controversy is stirring in the Rocky Mountains about how to treat those wild lands. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/4.6/download-entire-issue
Posted inMarch 3, 1972: Justice is prostituted! Is Werner to go free?
The environmental effects of nuclear power
The insatiable demand for electricity has put increasing emphasis on nuclear energy. But will proliferating nuclear power plants raise radiation to dangerously high levels? How will the nuclear waste be disposed of? An atomic scientist answers these questions and more in a multi-article series. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/4.5/download-entire-issue
Posted inMarch 3, 1972: Justice is prostituted! Is Werner to go free?
Justice is prostituted! Is Werner to go free?
It has now been seven months since helicopter pilot James Vogan went before a Senate subcommittee and revealed the illegal deaths of hundreds of eagles on Herman Werners’s Wyoming ranch — what has happened to justice? Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/4.5/download-entire-issue