Writers on the Range

Environmental Defense Fund staff member Kathy Fletcher doesn’t hide the fact that her group is upset about the rush to develop the coal resources of the Northern Great Plains. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/6.25/download-entire-issue

One person’s view of experiences drawn from a recycling program, pointing out major problems and giving tips to others who are interested in recycling. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/6.18/download-entire-issue

I submit that perhaps in our zeal to prevent the extinction of threatened species we have not sufficiently evaluated the seriousness of the threat to ourselves — Homo sapiens. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/6.17/download-entire-issue

Eastern power utilities have been telling the press that they are being forced to pay high prices for coal from nearby sources, and that they can buy Western coal and ship it across the country more cheaply. But then they file monthly reports with the Federal Power Commission that tell a different story. Download entire […]

Despite efforts by some legislators, a federal bill to regulate coal strip-mining is woefully weak and filled with the kind of loopholes that coal and utility lobbyists have written into state strip-mining regulations over the past 30 years. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/6.11/download-entire-issue

A National Park Service plan to use “safe,” prescribed wildfires to restore pristine ecological conditions in Grand Teton National Park may signal the end of the Smoky Bear era. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/6.7/download-entire-issue

We talk about the growing problem of solid waste disposal, about the wonders of landfills-turned-parks, and about the ways we could reuse our solid waste at home, but we haven’t quite made the point that we as individuals must attack the source of the solid waste problem. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/5.25/download-entire-issue

HCN author Bruce Hamilton recalls testifying against the proposed Grand Teton Jetport at a hearing in Jackson, Wyo. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/5.19/download-entire-issue

Riding a trail-type motorcycle along a challenging trail through broken terrain or a remote scenic area can provide a genuine thrill, no matter what your age. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/5.15/download-entire-issue

Overpopulation in our national parks of the two-legged and 4-wheeled varieties threatens to destroy the very thing visitors come to see. Wilderness quality is rapidly being displaced by quantity in the growing numbers of visitors, vehicles and facilities in the parks. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/5.3/download-entire-issue

The congressional and presidential decision to finance a $2.2 million airport expansion to accommodate jets in Grand Teton National Park is an extension of an already flagrant violation of the park’s stated conservation policy. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/5.2/download-entire-issue

The second part of a two-part series about a backpack trip into Colorado’s La Garita Wilderness. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/4.22/download-entire-issue

The most critical question of our times is: can man use his reason well enough to reverse his attack on the life systems of the planet that supports him. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/4.21/download-entire-issue

A scientist’s scathing reflection on resistance by the Bureau of Land Management, the Idaho Fish and Game Department and the U.S. Forest Service to addressing the die-off of bighorn sheep in Idaho’s Morgan Creek Winter Range. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/4.18/download-entire-issue

Letters from Gov. Hathaway of Wyoming, Gov. Anderson of Montana, and Gov. Guy of North Dakota respond to the question of how coal resources should be treated in those states. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/4.17/download-entire-issue

We should be angry with those thoughtless or deliberately destructive people who smear, daub, or spray names, initials, and obscenities in paint across the landscape, destroying in the process one of our basic natural resources, the beauty of our land. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/4.15/download-entire-issue

Wyoming’s Governor Stanley K. Hathaway has fired verbal broadsides at environmentalists for always criticizing but never offering “specifics.” The Governor seems not to be a dedicated or consistent reader of High Country News, else he would find much food for thought therein. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/4.14/download-entire-issue

A letter sent by 17 men and women from Moab, Utah, to the Supervisor of the Manti-La Sal National Forest criticizes policies such as the 1872 Mining Law and advocates for wilderness designation. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/4.13/download-entire-issue

The Bureau of Reclamation concealed its study of the Montana-Wyoming aqueduct — a key part of the plan to radically expand coal energy production in the Powder River Basin — by distorting the Freedom of Information Act. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/4.11/download-entire-issue

Two anonymous federal employees tally up the total potential impacts — on water, community development, wildlife, and more — of the energy projects like the North Central Power Study project that are proposed for the Powder River Basin. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/4.11/download-entire-issue