Writers on the Range

The Bridger-Teton National Forest personnel is fairly and competently administering this forest according to the will of the people, as expressed by the Congress of the United States. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/17.1/download-entire-issue

What this one wants is to live in a time when no one feels the need to use the word “environmentalist.” Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/16.24/download-entire-issue

After working as a professional environmentalist for over ten years, I have come to the conclusion that environmentalists don’t know what they want. They certainly know what they don’t want, but what they think they want instead often turns out to be worse than what they’ve got. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/16.23/download-entire-issue

Several months ago, we asked: Can the Forest Service be reformed? Now, after seeing that the agency can’t even get along with the Wyoming delegation, we ask: Can the Forest Service survive? Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/16.21/download-entire-issue

I believe that conservationists — and other public lands users — can and should pay their fair share. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/16.16/download-entire-issue

I ask my fellow environmentalists to think and investigate before they make sweeping condemnations of ranchers; and ranchers to be similarly understanding with environmentalists. We have much more in common that most of us know. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/16.13/download-entire-issue

Does it make sense for Colorado to develop its legal entitlement of the waters of the Colorado River to grow low-value crops like alfalfa? The federal investment in the Animas-La Plata would be over a million dollars per farm. Can such an investment rationally be justified? Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/16.11/download-entire-issue

A Federal Energy Regulatory Commission judge makes a startling decision to reject Montana’s Kootenai Falls Project in favor of preserving the falls in their natural state. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/16.10/download-entire-issue

Tom Bell reflects on HCN’s move from Lander, Wyo. to Paonia, Colo., saying that HCN is a useful voice, still needed, wherever it’s situated. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/16.9/download-entire-issue

Especially in the West — where independence and conservatism are an authentic part of the regional consciousness — we all understand the hypocritical and ultimately destructive nature of the cargo cult and pork barrel approaches. But we have been able to pretend we do not really understand what is happening. Download entire issue to view […]

We have followed the agency for a decade. The sum total of the positive, constructive things we can say is that there are good people out in the field. And some of them have the courage and ingenuity to do good work despite their superiors. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/16.5/download-entire-issue

EPA head William Ruckelshaus has repeatedly sounded the theme that the agency needs more flexibility to carry out its mission. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/15.24/download-entire-issue

The existing technological culture won’t be pushed aside without a hard fight. The resilience of the Bureau of Reclamation at Glen Canyon Dam this summer showed that. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/15.23/download-entire-issue

James Watt must be seen as a man with a mission. Unlike a Richard Nixon or a Ronald Reagan, Watt’s mission is more important to him than politics. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/15.18/download-entire-issue

Trickery and half-truths are what the nuclear industry and its appendages fed to America’s journalists for several decades. It used journalists to tell America that nuclear power was perfectly safe, run by well-trained technicians, and would provide the nation with endless amounts of very cheap energy. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/15.16/download-entire-issue

Although the Archaeological Resources Protection Act of 1979 prohibits the taking of Indian artifacts, each year countless pieces of thousand-year-old Anasazi pottery are taken home as souvenirs. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/15.13/download-entire-issue

Has much changed since Rudyard Kipling toured Yellowstone in 1889 and wished he were dead, rather than be among preening American tourists? Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/15.12/download-entire-issue

About 50 environmentalists from Wyoming, Montana and Idaho met in Jackson Hole as the founding convention for a the new Greater Yellowstone Coalition. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/15.11/download-entire-issue

Montana environmentalists waited to see how Governor Schwinden’s administration might deal with the state’s Department of Natural Resources and Conservation. They have now waited and seen, and their patience is growing thin. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/15.11/download-entire-issue

By reorganizing the Office of Surface Mining and by attacking the Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act of 1977, the Reagan administration has rolled back national standards for controlling coal strip mining. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/15.9/download-entire-issue