In a move that’s either desperate or practical, proponents of southwestern Colorado’s Animas-La Plata water project applied “tough love” to their aging proposal and unveiled a leaner alternative in early July. The reservoir and pumping project that was supposed to provide water for irrigators and cities in Colorado and New Mexico is also key to […]
Becky Rumsey
Posted inJanuary 20, 1997: Bees under siege
They’re still talking about A-LP
With four meetings down and who knows how many more to come, talks on Animas-La Plata, the $714 million dam and irrigation project proposed near Durango, Colo., continued this winter (HCN, 11/11/96). Ten options remain on the table – down from 70 – and some involve downsizing the project. Others propose alternatives to bring water […]
Posted inNovember 11, 1996: Cease-fire called on the Animas-La Plata front
Maggie Fox, Sierra Club
Note: This article is a sidebar to this issue’s feature story. “It’s interesting how we see history differently. Rep. Scott McInnis, R-Colo., talked about the settlement 10 years ago as if everyone in the whole world was there. In fact, the conservation community was not there because we were expressly excluded. I think if we […]
Posted inNovember 11, 1996: Cease-fire called on the Animas-La Plata front
The rules
Note: This article is a sidebar to this issue’s feature story. Colorado Lt. Gov. Gail Schoettler’s ground rules for A-LP consensus: * Don’t attack; be positive. * Work to develop a feeling of collaboration. * No legal nitpicking (nervous laughter since more than half the people at the table are lawyers). * Listen to each […]
Posted inNovember 11, 1996: Cease-fire called on the Animas-La Plata front
What $710 million buys
Note: This article is a sidebar to this issue’s feature story. It’s fitting that the story of Reclamation’s last big project should also be a story about one of the West’s last free-flowing rivers. From its headwaters in the San Juan Mountains near the Continental Divide, the Animas River descends about 125 miles south through […]
Posted inNovember 11, 1996: Cease-fire called on the Animas-La Plata front
Stella Montoya, La Plata Conservancy District
Note: This article is a sidebar to this issue’s feature story. “My husband worked on the A-LP project all his life and was in Washington in 1968 when President Lyndon Johnson signed the A-LP project. He chaired the conservancy district for over 30 years, and now I hold the position. “The La Plata River has […]
Posted inNovember 11, 1996: Cease-fire called on the Animas-La Plata front
Ray Frost, Southern Ute councilman
Note: This article is a sidebar to this issue’s feature story. “I have always been against the A-LP project, even when I was running for a seat on the tribal council three years ago. “The Southern Ute Grassroots Organization believes that the development of the Animas-La Plata project, as currently thought about, is not in […]
Posted inMay 16, 1994: Babbitt is trying to nationalize the BLM
Court rains on title to Colorado land grant
The “little cloud” on the title of the Taylor Ranch in Colorado’s San Luis Valley remains, thanks to a landmark Colorado Supreme Court ruling in favor of Costilla County residents. On May 2, the court said there should be a trial to determine whether the constitutional rights of residents were violated in 1960, when landowner […]
Posted inDecember 13, 1993: Jack Ward Thomas: Hail to the chief
Western women wild with joy!
A look back at women’s suffrage efforts in the West. To read this article, download this HCN issue in PDF format. This article appeared in the print edition of the magazine with the headline Western women wild with joy!.
Posted inOctober 18, 1993: A lost land grant: Can it be reclaimed?
A lost land grant: Can it be reclaimed?
A community mobilizes to regain a lost Mexican land grant. To read this article, download this HCN issue in PDF format. This article appeared in the print edition of the magazine with the headline A lost land grant: Can it be reclaimed?.
Posted inApril 23, 1990: HCN's Annual Guide to Outdoor Education in the West
How the outdoors got into the West’s schools
In 1970, when Earth Day was born and Rudy Schafer was working for the California Department of Education, he managed the state’s environmental education program but wasn’t content to leave it at that. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/22.8/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inSeptember 11, 1989: Two Forks dam: EPA reaffirms its veto intent
Our first wilderness: The Gila Turns 65
In 1924, quietly and with little fanfare, the U.S. Forest Service created the first federal wilderness reserve: the Gila Wilderness of New Mexico. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/21.17/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E