Politics

Conservation writer Michael Frome is well-qualified to comment on the risks of speaking out — he’s spent much of his career nailing down natural resource scandals and naming the people responsible, and has lost two jobs for his candor. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/8.4/download-entire-issue

People envy John McComb, Southwest Representative of the Sierra Club, because they think he gets paid to hike through the deserts and mountains surrounding Tuscon, Arizona. But he works 70-80 hours per week, believing that dedication and patience are two essential qualities for his profession. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/8.3/download-entire-issue

Ten years after Juel Rodack and his wife took an awe-inspiring hike into the Grand Canyon, only to emerge and learn of plans for the Marble and Bridge Canyon Dams, the group they formed in response, Arizonans for Water Without Waste, is one of the most influential environmental groups in the Southwest. Download entire issue […]

Charlie Scott, a rancher south of Casper Mountain in Wyoming, challenged himself as a bureaucrat in Washington D.C. for five years, but is pleased to be back in the West. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/7.12/download-entire-issue

When conservationists get together to talk shop, June Viavant talks canyons. The Escalante Canyon, in particular, has been her obsession since the ’60s. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/7.11/download-entire-issue

Laney Hicks, the Northern Plains Representative of the Sierra Club, has made good on her goal of getting good press coverage. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/7.10/download-entire-issue

Ed Dobson wanted to be a baseball player, and later, a sports broadcaster. But a hike to the Grand Canyon clinched his future in the West, and he now runs a traveling show about the ills of strip mining. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/7.8/download-entire-issue

Peter and Katherine Montague are dedicated to dissolving the reticence that has traditionally characterized Western towns, and have been building an “information bank” in the Southern Rockies. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/7.4/download-entire-issue

Jim Connor, a planner-coordinator for the Bridger-Teton National Forest, softens the blows from environmentalists and industry. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/6.24/download-entire-issue

Despite his ranch duties and his job as chairman of the Wyoming group of the Sierra Club, Art Fawcett still finds time to add to an impressive collection of wildflower and wildlife photos and participate in local community life. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/6.20/download-entire-issue

During his 75 years, Adolph Murie wandered through the wilderness from Guatemala to Alaska, living with wolves on Mount McKinley, moose on Isle Royale, elk in the Olympics, and coyotes in Yellowstone. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/6.17/download-entire-issue

Montana State Representative Dorothy Bradley, a Democrat, had everything going against her when she first decided to run for the legislature on Earth Day in the spring of 1970. “I was the wrong age, wrong sex, and wrong party,” she says. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/6.16/download-entire-issue

Finis Mitchell, whose family came to Wyoming with a span of mules, a wagon, and a cow in 1906, has climbed 195 mountains, including Gannett Peak, the tallest point in Wyoming. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/6.15/download-entire-issue

Through a group called the Task Force Against Nuclear Pollution, Egan O’Connor has helped locate, computerize, and wave in front of Congress the names of nearly 81,000 Americans who want to turn off nuclear fission. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/6.14/download-entire-issue

Carolyn and Irv Alderson, owners and operators of the Bones Brothers Ranch in Birney, Mont., could benefit from mining coal on their property, but say “in the end the productivity of the land is the only material thing on this earth that can be left for the future.” Download entire issue to view this article: […]

Bart Koehler’s construction days ended abruptly when The Wilderness Society gave him a call, wanting to know if he’d give up Florida to hike around the Rockies studying potential wilderness, take pictures and write field reports. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/6.10/download-entire-issue

For the last three years Louise Dunlop’s life has centered around one word — coal. She coordinates the Coalition Against Strip Mining, a group of about 30 organizations across the country. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/6.9/download-entire-issue

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

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

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