The Magazine

The best way to understand the uproar over the Garrison Diversion is to think of the project as a metaphor for North Dakota’s history and an expression of its psyche.

A special issue exploring acid rain’s causes, effects and efforts to curb it.

Louisiana-Pacific will soon have two aspen flakeboard plants on line in western Colorado, raising questions about “multiple use” forest management.

A special issue with six pages on the Taylor Grazing Act, cattle and elk in National Parks and grazing guru Allan Savory.

Tom Gambler, a career Bureau of Reclamation man, wants to show writer Edward Abbey through Glen Canyon Dam.

A special issue on Idaho’s Great Rift, clashing crustal plates, the Henry Mountains and more.

A potential legal and physical reworking of the Colorado River could reshape it as much as did the 1956 Colorado River Storage Project Act, which authorized Glen Canyon Dam and others.

Utah Governor Scott Matheson flatly opposes the Department of Energy’s proposal to bury high-level nuclear wastes just outside Canyonlands National Park.

The Chimney Rock Coal Company wants to mine a Forest Service site in southwestern Colorado that’s home to well-preserved Anasazi ruins.

The West has been obsessed by something it calls “economic development” since the great resource bust of 1981-1982 turned attention from mining, drilling and cutting to tourism, manufacturing, and agriculture.

An issue exploring the role of nature in National Park management, plus a new Department of Interior program to make park management more efficient.

A special issue exploring how and why the latest efforts to cook liquid oil out of oil shale are rapidly failing.

The MX missile deployment in Nebraska and Wyoming is meeting stepped up opposition, with Colorado pressing to be included in an assessment of regional impacts.

The Linowes Commission has found James Watt’s Department of Interior guilty of man-handling coal leasing.

EPA Superfund whistleblower Hugh Kaufman travels the country telling one horror story after another about the Carter and Reagan administrations.

A special issue on Wyoming’s politics, its economics, and the way it welcomed home James Watt. Plus, a centerspread on Wyoming’s marooned antelope.

A special issue on the drowning of Salt Lake City, Colorado Gov. Lamm’s year 2005 vision, and the Rockies’ role in a boomless future.

Grassroots groups, not government regulators, are reacting to problems at the Envirosafe toxic waste landfill in Idaho, a facility once considered the safest in the West.

1984 is ripe for a flood of state wilderness bills to pass Congress, meaning that President Ronald Reagan could end up signing more wilderness legislation into law than any other chief executive.

The biggest earthquake in the United States in 24 years rippled through Idaho on October 28, blasting trees from the ground and causing widespread damage.