Bruce Babbitt will manage a fragmented and dysfunctional Department of the Interior. To read this article, download this HCN issue in PDF format. This article appeared in the print edition of the magazine with the headline Can Bruce Babbitt make Interior hum?.
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Posted inJanuary 25, 1993: Can Bruce Babbitt make Interior hum?
Interference in environmental programs by political appointees
Excerpts from the House subcommittee staff report revealdetails of of Lorraine Mintzmyer’s transfer and changes to Yellowstone’s “Vision” document. To read this article, download this HCN issue in PDF format. This article appeared in the print edition of the magazine with the headline Interference in environmental programs by political appointees.
Posted inJanuary 25, 1993: Can Bruce Babbitt make Interior hum?
Babbitt in his words
Babbitt speaks out on multiple use policy, the BLM and western water policy. To read this article, download this HCN issue in PDF format. This article appeared in the print edition of the magazine with the headline Babbitt in his words.
Posted inJanuary 25, 1993: Can Bruce Babbitt make Interior hum?
Big changes are coming to Interior, Udall says
The former Secretary of the Interior, Stewart Udall, speculates on Babbitt’s effect on the agency. To read this article, download this HCN issue in PDF format. This article appeared in the print edition of the magazine with the headline Big changes are coming to Interior, Udall says.
Posted inJanuary 25, 1993: Can Bruce Babbitt make Interior hum?
Senior BLMer recalls how James Watt did things
Senior BLM director, Bob Moore, gives his opinion on appointees and career people. To read this article, download this HCN issue in PDF format. This article appeared in the print edition of the magazine with the headline Senior BLMer recalls how James Watt did things.
Posted inJanuary 25, 1993: Can Bruce Babbitt make Interior hum?
Babbitt wins Interior, by a hair
Babbitt wins as Secretary of the Interior by a narrow margin. To read this article, download this HCN issue in PDF format. This article appeared in the print edition of the magazine with the headline Babbitt wins Interior, by a hair.
Posted inJanuary 25, 1993: Can Bruce Babbitt make Interior hum?
Babbitt’s domain: 1.9 billion acres
The domain of Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt encompasses a $7.25 billion budget, 75,000 employees, and more than 500 million acres of land onshore, and another 1.4 billion acres offshore. Interior’s holdings sprawl across the nation. It manages everything from the Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island in New York to San Francisco’s Golden Gate National […]
Posted inJanuary 25, 1993: Can Bruce Babbitt make Interior hum?
The new Secretary of the Interior – Bruce Babbitt
High Country News — January 25, 1993 The new Secretary of the Interior – Bruce Babbitt The new Secretary of Interior once explained why he became head of the League of Conservation Voters: “I always wanted to be president of something.” Bruce Babbitt had wanted to be president of the United States; but his thoughtful […]
Posted inDecember 3, 1990: A dead end for the grizzly?
Mules dance a backwoods ballet
Cal Samsel, based in Huson, Mont., runs a nine-mule team, delivering supplies to places in national forests in Idaho, Montana and the Dakotas where trucks can’t drive and helicopters can’t land. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/22.23/download-entire-issue
Posted inJune 18, 1990: Uranium has decimated Navajo miners
Yvon Chouinard: A mutinous captain of industry
“I never wanted to be a businessman,” says the owner of Patagonia clothing and gear company, “because I thought businessmen were real greaseballs. In fact I still do.” Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/22.12/download-entire-issue
Posted inMarch 27, 1989: In Montana: Grass-roots group may be Astroturf
Edward Abbey: druid of the arches
The sudden death last week of Edward Abbey recalled to us this superb profile of the writer by Bruce Hamilton, who was HCN managing editor in 1976, when this story appeared. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/21.6/download-entire-issue
Posted inMay 11, 1987: A struggle for an Arizona peak
Rancher-lawmaker takes on the establishment
Idaho’s John Peavey proves that a legislator can win major fights against the West’s power triangle — big business, utilities and the farm-ranch establishment. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/19.9/download-entire-issue
Posted inAugust 5, 1985: The Wilderness Society's outstanding alumni
Will politics doom the ferret?
Endangered species biologist Tim Clark has chosen to occupy a world rife with contradictions, politics and emotion. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/17.15/download-entire-issue
Posted inDecember 24, 1984: Seeing the forest for the trees
Morley Nelson on the sport of falconry
Morley Nelson has spent much of his 68 years working with raptors and trying to get the rest of us to catch a sense of the inspiration he has derived from these birds. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/16.24/download-entire-issue
Posted inOctober 2, 1981: Encounters with Henry on Utah's Green River
Put that beer can in Bucket No. 14, please
If Edward Abbey were introduced to my father, Edward Abbey would probably toss a beer can at him. My father would pick it up and put it in the proper recycling bucket. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/13.19/download-entire-issue
Posted inMay 29, 1981: Rolling down the road -- the invisible network of nuclear transport
Project Lighthawk gets conservationists off the ground
With his small plane, Michael Stewartt flies journalists, government officials and activists around the Rocky Mountain region to give them a birds-eye view of strips mines, coal-fired power plants and areas of scenic beauty. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/13.11/download-entire-issue
Posted inFebruary 6, 1981: Wyoming loses million on ore tax
Linford’s pen still pursues West’s polluters
Ernest Linford may be retired after a noted career as a journalist and professor in Wyoming, but he remains committed to land and water conservation. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/13.3/download-entire-issue
Posted inJuly 11, 1980: States, courts, cutbacks put pressure on strip mine agency
John Peavey: a maverick changes stripes
John Peavy, a former state senator who now runs a 250,000 acre sheep and cattle operation in southern Idaho, is now running for that office on an environmental platform. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/12.14/download-entire-issue
Posted inJuly 27, 1979: Wilderness Society fires key Utah environmentalist
Love spins rock tales from huckleberries and oil
Dr. J. David Love, a supervisor for the U.S. Geological Survey, shares his knowledge of the Yellowstone supervolcano and other geologic wonders with summer students at the Teton Science School. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/11.15/download-entire-issue
Posted inDecember 15, 1978: Recharge could bring water, wildlife to dry plains
Yellowstone Park’s most devoted geyser gazer
For three months and 380 consecutive eruptions, John Wegel has been present to watch the Riverside Geyser arch its plume 80 feet high out over the Firehole River. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/10.24/download-entire-issue