The Magazine

In 1989 a coalition of park and forest chiefs in what is now called the Greater Yellowstone ecosystem embarked on a pioneering plan to coordinate their management. But something went awry.

A California solar energy company that wants to generate thousands of megawatts of pollution-free electricity is finding surprising success in the sun-drenched American Southwest.

For many of the Navy and Air Force pilots who would fly deadly missions in Operation Desert Storm, their first experience with live bombs was in the Nevada desert.

Twenty articles and four special maps on salmon, dams, and logging.

The Forest Service claims parts of the Big Cimarron grazing allotment on the Uncompahgre National Forest are chronically overgrazed, and says the bulk of the area should be managed for recreation and the protection of its rivers and lakes.

The nation’s nuclear weapons industry has left a dangerous legacy of radioactive wastes strewn around the West.

A four-year drought has humbled the Missouri River and plunged its 10 basin states into a sour quarrel with one another and the Army Corps of Engineers, the river’s federal boss.

The death of Denver’s Two Forks dam project has turned the state’s archetypal Western water establishment on its head.

The Pacific Northwest’s dawning power shortage is adding new impetus to build more hydroelectric dams in Idaho, while the state bills itself as ‘the whitewater capital of the world.’

In the absence of any comprehensive national strategy to handle predatory animals, the Agriculture Department’s Animal Damage Control branch has emerged as the one program to determine the fate of American predators. It does this primarily by killing them.

The Western Shoshone look homeward to Ruby Valley, Nevada.

The $590 million Animas-La Plata water project Congress reauthorized in 1988 continues to generate controversy in Colorado.

The question is whether the grizzly can take recovery on paper and turn it into recovery in the wild. The answer, it now appears, is not entirely up to the bear.

The Northwest rediscovers its ancient forests.

Economic changes and environmental concerns are beginning to force state game and fish departments to accept the more ambitious mission of preserving biological diversity.

A growing grassroots concern for the environment is driving the West’s 1990 elections. See state-by-state election coverage.

Rocky Mountain states bet on pipelines to get gas to the burgeoning California market.

The ski industry, once welcomed in the West, is turning into a pariah.

Is the rural West becoming a dumping ground for toxic waste and garbage?

Midvale, Wyo., farmers worry after the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed last year that the tribes of the Wind River Reservation have rights to over 500,000 acre-feet of water.