Ever since he ate Little Red Riding Hood’s grandma and blew down the houses of two-thirds of the little pigs, the wolf has been Big and Bad. Everyone knows what big teeth he has. But can those gleaming incisors explain the startling decline of elk herds in the Yellowstone area? Some people think so. Hunters […]
Dan Whipple
Posted inDecember 17, 2001: Bad moon rising
National grasslands up for review
The grasslands of the Northern Plains – primarily under U.S. Forest Service jurisdiction – are home to abundant wildlife, from deer and elk to endangered swift foxes, mountain plovers and ferruginous hawks. But they are also the site of promising oil and gas deposits. With the release of the final environmental impact statement for the […]
Posted inOctober 9, 1989: WIPP is dazed, but not dead
A flagship forest in Wyoming shifts away from timber
In the Bridger-Teton National Forest, timber is losing and wildlife and recreation may be winning. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/21.19/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inSeptember 25, 1989: Special issue: High Country News is 20
The fatal accident: An Indian, a coyote and readers come to the rescue
“I saw God when I worked for High Country News, and it surprises me that I have never been mentioned in the voluminous literature on the subject.” Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/21.18/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inNovember 26, 1984: A Guide to the 99th Congress
Montana fears Wyoming’s ‘water shovel’
Wyoming and Montana are apparently approaching gridlock as they try to work out the details of apportioning water from the Yellowstone River Basin under the Yellowstone Compact. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/16.22/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inAugust 5, 1983: Missiles, men and Armageddon
Missiles, men and Armageddon
The Rockies and Great Plains are home to virtually all of the United States’ land-based nuclear intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs). Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/15.15/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inJuly 8, 1983: Playing presidential politics in Colorado ski country
Playing presidential politics in Colorado ski country
Gary Hart, Colorado’s senior senator and the Rocky Mountain West’s own presidential candidate, talks conservation in Snowmass Village. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/15.13/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inFebruary 4, 1983: WIPPing into shape in New Mexico
They built it with silver and gold
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://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/15.2/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inJanuary 21, 1983: Selling every seat in the House -- and Senate
Selling every seat in the House — and Senate
Widespread use of political action committees, a relatively new phenomenon on the American political scene, is driving politics in many Western states. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/15.1/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inDecember 24, 1982: Discovering the Rockies
The puzzle of the Rocky Mountain high
Does the Rocky Mountain identity really exist? Do people here feel the pull of regionalism like, say, midwesterners or New England natives? Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/14.25/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inDecember 10, 1982: Washington nuke plant has unsafe welds
All MXed up in Cheyenne
The basic paradox of the powerful nuclear weapons that reside in Cheyenne, Wyo. and other Western locales is that they are too powerful to be used. But if this is so, they lose all their strategic and diplomatic value — so we have to keep threatening to use them. To read this article, click the […]
Posted inNovember 26, 1982: Whitewater trespass
The MX finds its home in the West
President Reagan announced Monday night that the controversial MX missile would be deployed at Warren Air Force Base near Cheyenne, Wyoming. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/14.23/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inOctober 15, 1982: The Best and Worst of the West in Congress
The Best and Worst of the West in Congress
A review of the West’s congressional delegates, based on how well they accomplished their own agendas, regardless of whether they were pro- or anti-environment. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/14.20/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inOctober 1, 1982: A talk with James Watt
A talk with James Watt
An HCN exclusive interview with Interior Secretary James Watt during a visit to Lander, Wyo. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/14.19/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inSeptember 17, 1982: Rain, rain, go away
Rain, rain, go away
Acid rain, which could be exacerbated by oil and gas development, is harming lakes in Colorado and elsewhere in the West. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/14.18/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inJune 25, 1982: A $40 million pork barrel
A $40 million pork barrel
The water bill passed by Wyoming’s 1982 Legislature is being criticized by environmental groups, who say it lacks comprehensive, long-term water planning. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/14.13/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inMay 14, 1982: Coyote: Predator and Prometheus
Oil shale: no tears, but lots of tangle
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://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/14.10/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inMarch 19, 1982: Wilderness on the rocks
Wilderness on the rocks
Environmentalists oppose bills, supported by snowmobiling and timber interests, that would establish more wilderness in Montana and Wyoming. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/14.6/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inFebruary 19, 1982: Feds study nuke dump near Canyonlands
Feds study nuke dump near Canyonlands
The U.S. Department of Energy may build a nuclear waste storage facility in Davis or Lavender canyons, near Utah’s Canyonlands National Park. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/14.4/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inFebruary 19, 1982: Feds study nuke dump near Canyonlands
Trying a “Bold” land swap
Utah Gov. Scott Matheson is requesting a long-delayed federal public land swap, as well as other land exchanges to consolidate Utah’s widely dispersed state lands into more manageable blocks. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/14.4/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E