Writers on the Range

A speech by Dan Kemmis, who has risen quickly to leadership of the state’s House after serving as House Minority Leader in 1981, and was the author of Montana’s 1979 coal slurry ban. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/15.8/download-entire-issue

The latest effort by the federal government to rid itself of part of the public domain is but the latest chapter in an enduring saga. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/15.4/download-entire-issue

The water brought from the Colorado River by the $3.4 billion Central Arizona Project will be expensive. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/15.2/download-entire-issue

The Wyoming Industrial Siting Council is being prudent in considering requiring the Hampshire Energy Company, which is planning a coal-to-gasoline conversion plant in Gillette, Wyo., to post a performance bond to protect local governments. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/14.22/download-entire-issue

The Office of Surface Mining’s proposed changes to coal mining regulations will weaken necessary rules without economic justification. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/14.21/download-entire-issue

We aren’t wholly controlled by economic and scientific laws. There are spiritual values that people have and share and that they sometimes act to preserve. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/14.20/download-entire-issue

Colorado considers a “bottle bill” like those that have deceased littering in other states. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/14.16/download-entire-issue

After weeks of secrecy, the U.S. Bureau of Land Management revealed a list of more than 4.3 million acres of public land that may be sold to reduce the national debt. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/14.15/download-entire-issue

Along with a gradual shift to appropriate technologies there must be a broad commitment to task-sharing and equity in employment so that women do not get shuffled once again to the bottom of the social deck. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/14.14/download-entire-issue

The Reagan administration is systematically tearing apart the contributions of nearly a century of environmental work in this country. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/14.13/download-entire-issue

The mitigation of socioeconomic impacts in western rural communities is a relatively new science, and    we are on the upslope of the learning curve. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/14.11/download-entire-issue

Oil shale is not dead, despite what the daily newspapers may say. The promise or threat of oil shale will always be with us. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/14.10/download-entire-issue

From the outside, the National Environmental Policy Act process might as well be a foreign culture with its own, language and customs. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/14.6/download-entire-issue

To an energy industry stretched thin, Interior Secretary James Watt’s temporary ban on oil and gas drilling in wilderness areas is something of a favor. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/14.5/download-entire-issue

As the West’s uranium industry declines, it should reclaim mines, not wait for economics to swing back in the industry’s favor. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/14.1/download-entire-issue

Although the Reagan administration preaches free market ideals, it has increased funding for nuclear power, retained some subsidies for synthetic fuels, and backed away from its promise to deregulate the price of natural gas. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/13.22/download-entire-issue

As long as we have the federal government in our front yard, we will attempt to work with them to arrive at decisions that are mutually beneficial to Montanans and to the nation as a whole. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/13.21/download-entire-issue

Virtually every hotel, store, gas station and restaurant in the national parks is a private, profit-making enterprise. Regulation of these businesses is one of the most important and least understood issues in public land management. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/13.20/download-entire-issue

Given the press of time and circumstances, the vocabulary of environmental organizations increasingly reflects a new technological style. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/13.14/download-entire-issue

The environmental perspective embraces not only the interests of the well-established environmental community, but many other interests as well, including the business sector. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/13.13/download-entire-issue