Writers on the Range

We are about 150 years into this experiment to see whether it is possible to live year-round in the Rocky Mountains. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/23.20/download-entire-issue

Today, Babbitt said, the main threat to the West is not aridity, but dam builders. Each new water development destroys another chunk of the West, said the man who fought for the Central Arizona Project while Arizona’s governor. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/23.18/download-entire-issue

“Most reports I’ve seen concerning the present feverish discussion of raising the grazing leases on public simply do not reflect a true picture.” Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/23.16/download-entire-issue

Defenders of Wildlife should work to limit, not enhance, the power of the livestock interests, and push for more equitable solutions such as a mandatory insurance policy for ranchers to compensate them for depredation. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/23.6/download-entire-issue

When I went for the interview at Rocky Flats, after the first screening by the temporary agency, it was a bleak, gray, snowy day … Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/23.5/download-entire-issue

When 2,500 anti-nuclear protesters came here to vex the Nevada Test Site early in January, probably the last thing they expected was a lecture on democracy from their Soviet counterparts in the peace movement. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/23.1/download-entire-issue

In the mountains north of Cooke City and in other national forests surrounding Montana’s Absaroka- Beartooth Wilderness, important grizzly hear habitat is being threatened by a “neo-gold rush” — the recent explosion of hard rock mining on public lands. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/22.23/download-entire-issue

Every day we meet with cultural problems, and the mark of the Indian journalist is that he or she must actively confront these problems. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/22.19/download-entire-issue

Ken Knudson represented the Montana Wildlands Coalition in the Kootenai and Lolo Accords negotiation; Bryan Erhart represented over 800 mill workers. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/22.18/download-entire-issue

An array of changes are urgently needed to ensure that the Forest Service is better prepared, that it is more adaptable to variable and unusual conditions, and that large sums of money are not squandered when fighting wildfire. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/22.14/download-entire-issue

The Garrison project may be a greater disaster than the Dust Bowl. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/22.10/download-entire-issue

A rural electrification convention symbolizes the forces that vigorous, progressive elements must overcome if the countryside is to move forward again. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/22.6/download-entire-issue

Given their dubious benefits, few dams are likely to stand up well in contests played on level fields. Both the environment and the economy will be better for the struggle. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/22.4/download-entire-issue

According to documents made available through Freedom of Information Act, the FBI kept track of Abbey’s writing and activities for 20 years, trying to determine whether the controversial author was a security threat to the United States. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/22.1/download-entire-issue

For more than 60 years, very little has changed inside the federal Animal Damage Control division of the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/21.17/download-entire-issue

With all the fuss made about livestock grazing on public lands in the West, it is surprising to learn that they account for only 2 percent of U.S. livestock grazing. But to the rancher who depends on Western rangelands for pasture, it’s a make or break situation. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/21.13/download-entire-issue

The time for an ambiguous attitude toward ecotage passed with the announcement of the arrests in Arizona and the allegations of a plan to attack the Rocky Flats nuclear arsenal. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/21.12/download-entire-issue

Last November, environmental activists waging underfinanced ballon initiative campaigns in South Dakota, Montana and Nebraska took beatings from well-funded experts. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/21.10/download-entire-issue

Coos Bay, Ore., is awash in logs, but for the first time since 1936 there’s not a single plywood or lumber mill operating in the area. Instead, there are foreign-flagged ships. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/21.9/download-entire-issue

The battle against Two Forks Dam was fought with two strategies, one within and one outside of the EIS process. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/21.7/download-entire-issue