High Country News — January 25, 1993 The new Secretary of the Interior – Bruce Babbitt The new Secretary of Interior once explained why he became head of the League of Conservation Voters: “I always wanted to be president of something.” Bruce Babbitt had wanted to be president of the United States; but his thoughtful […]
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Posted inJanuary 25, 1993: Can Bruce Babbitt make Interior hum?
Can Bruce Babbitt make Interior hum?
Bruce Babbitt will manage a fragmented and dysfunctional Department of the Interior. To read this article, download this HCN issue in PDF format. This article appeared in the print edition of the magazine with the headline Can Bruce Babbitt make Interior hum?.
Posted inJanuary 25, 1993: Can Bruce Babbitt make Interior hum?
Big changes are coming to Interior, Udall says
The former Secretary of the Interior, Stewart Udall, speculates on Babbitt’s effect on the agency. To read this article, download this HCN issue in PDF format. This article appeared in the print edition of the magazine with the headline Big changes are coming to Interior, Udall says.
Posted inJanuary 25, 1993: Can Bruce Babbitt make Interior hum?
Senior BLMer recalls how James Watt did things
Senior BLM director, Bob Moore, gives his opinion on appointees and career people. To read this article, download this HCN issue in PDF format. This article appeared in the print edition of the magazine with the headline Senior BLMer recalls how James Watt did things.
Posted inNovember 16, 1992: The 1992 Election: Nationally a revolution, in the West an evolution
The 1992 Election: Nationally a revolution, in the West an evolution
The West has come late and gradually to the experience of cultural diversity and aggressive minorities. But the 1992 election tells us that the region is finally experiencing what it means to be part of America in the late 20th century. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/24.21/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inNovember 2, 1992: The nuclear age: 1945, the beginning; 1992, the beginning of the end
The West’s nuclear Mandarins have reaped what they sowed
To those of us who grew up in the 1950s reading I.F. Stone’s Weekly, with its regular exposes of the dangers of above-ground nuclear testing, the accompanying coverups and denials, and the silence of the mass media on those subjects, the end of all nuclear testing is a shock. Download entire issue to view this […]
Posted inOctober 5, 1992: Western voters face clear choices
Western voters face clear choices
The 1992 election will redraw the West’s political map, but the new shape is almost impossible to predict. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/24.18/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inJuly 13, 1992: Special issue: Part 2 of The Electric Revolution
PacifiCorp bets on coal, and against efficiency
One of the West’s largest utilities may be betting that the future lies with coal-fired power plants rather than efficiency and alternative fuels. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/24.13/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inJuly 13, 1992: Special issue: Part 2 of The Electric Revolution
Power could come from a shared vision
These two special issues of High Country News say that we have overbuilt our electric power system by up to five times. We could shut down up to four out of five power plants, coal mines, and hydroelectric dams while providing the same services and a higher quality of life. Download entire issue to view […]
Posted inJune 29, 1992: Special Issue: Part 1 of The Electric Revolution
How clean coal helped kill a utility
Rebuilding the Colorado-Ute Electric Association power plant at Nucla, Colo., was a technical success. Unfortunately, although the operation went well, the patient died a lingering and painful death. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/24.12/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inMay 18, 1992: A small town fights a large mine
Rural economies can reform or go the way of Detroit
Environmentalism is the vanguard of urban America, which is giving the rural West the choice of adapting to the larger society’s vision or of dying. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/24.9/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inMarch 23, 1992: Special issue: An alternative to the bumpersticker approach to grazing
Wilderness and cattle don’t mix
The leader of the Oregon Natural Desert Association explains why participation in grazing-reform working groups by environmentalists is a waste of time, or even a sabotage of environmentalist goals. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/24.5/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inMarch 23, 1992: Special issue: An alternative to the bumpersticker approach to grazing
Ranching’s charismatic reformers
In Oregon, Doc and Connie Hatfield combine ecology, politics and marketing to strengthen the economics of ranching. To read this article, click the “View a PDF from the original” link below, or download the entire issue: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/24.5/download-entire-issue This article appeared in the print edition of the magazine with the headline Ranching’s charismatic reformers.
Posted inMarch 23, 1992: Special issue: An alternative to the bumpersticker approach to grazing
A neighborly approach to sustainable public-land grazing
An experiment is under way in Oregon that may be an alternative to all-out war over use of the public lands. To read this article, click the “View a PDF from the original” link below, or download the entire issue: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/24.5/download-entire-issue This article appeared in the print edition of the magazine with the headline A […]
Posted inFebruary 24, 1992: Sagebrush Rebellion II: Some rural counties seek to influence federal land use
In search of sustainability
The foresters, economists, sociologists, public land managers and foundation executives at the Defining Sustainable Forestry Workshop came surprisingly close to describing what sustainable forestry might look like. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/24.3/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inOctober 7, 1991: Two say politics rules their agencies
Is Babbitt just funny, or is he also shrewd?
Today, Babbitt said, the main threat to the West is not aridity, but dam builders. Each new water development destroys another chunk of the West, said the man who fought for the Central Arizona Project while Arizona’s governor. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/23.18/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inAugust 12, 1991: West's grand old water doctrine dies
Charles Wilkinson crows over the corpse of the West’s traditional approach to water
A eulogy of an old scourge and warning against a new one.
Posted inOctober 8, 1990: Can natural gas fuel a Rocky Mountain high?
Metamorphosis at the Forest Service
The Forest Service is becoming experienced in listening to messages it would not have chosen to hear a few years ago. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/22.19/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inMay 7, 1990: Readers react: A sequel to the special issue on grazing
Ranchers’ hold on agency revealed
When his Forest Service superiors told him he had so angered the ranchers he was working with that he should apply for a transfer, District Ranger Don Oman refused. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/22.9/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inMay 7, 1990: Readers react: A sequel to the special issue on grazing
The public range begins to green up
Grazing reform appears to be a sustainable and unstoppable movement to recover lost land. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/22.9/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E