Politics

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

“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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Generations to come will look upon the work of Steward Udall — Secretary of the Interior Department under both Presidents John Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson — as exceptional, a lesson of political survival combined with effective conservation. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/9.23/download-entire-issue

Keith Haggard, the founder and executive director of the New Mexico Solar Energy Association, shares his experiences advocating for solar technology. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/9.13/download-entire-issue

Roderick Nash, whose passion is exploring and preserving wilderness, sees wilderness not as an amenity, but as a powerful aid for overcoming a frontier mentality. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/9.10/download-entire-issue

Mark Skrotzki is spearheading an effort to find alternatives to a plan to push a four-lane interstate through Colorado’s Glenwood Canyon. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/9.7/download-entire-issue

Ellen Williams, the postmaster general in the town of Dutch John in northeastern Utah, has spent the past several years attempting to preserve and restore the historical remnants of nearby Browns Park, an Old West ranch outpost and outlaw hideout. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/8.23/download-entire-issue

Don Erickson is a modest, cautious man. These qualities set him apart from most other solar energy equipment manufacturers eager to build a market for a new product. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/8.19/download-entire-issue

Dick Randall, who grew up in Wyoming’s wide open spaces and at one time in his life shot hundreds of coyotes from a plane, is now an outspoken opponent of predator control. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/8.13/download-entire-issue

Buzz and Mary Anne Youens anticipated a quiet life when they built a cabin in Arizona’s isolated White Mountains in the early 1970s, but a nearby timber sale turned them into activists. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/8.10/download-entire-issue