An HCN interview with Michael McCloskey, who succeeded David Brower as executive director of the Sierra Club. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/5.20/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
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Posted inSeptember 28, 1973: Disaster waits in the wings, but our wastefulness continues
Disaster waits in the wings, but our wastefulness continues
Little known or understood by the average American is his prodigious use — and waste — of all forms of energy. So wasteful have Americans been that we now find ourselves on the brink of energy disaster. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/5.19/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inSeptember 14, 1973: Our land is finite ...
John Bermington: The governor’s land use man
An HCN interview with Colorado Gov. John Venderhoof’s advisor on state planning and the environment, John Bermington. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/5.18/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inAugust 17, 1973: "Land of Bewilderment"
A conservation portrait: Ernie Day
Ernie Day fell in love with the White Clouds high mountain country of central Idaho about 10 years ago but at that time he never dreamed his love affair would square him off against the second largest mining company in the United States, or put him in the thick of an Idaho gubernatorial election. Download […]
Posted inAugust 17, 1973: "Land of Bewilderment"
Coal controversy continues
The first environmental impact statement (EIS) for any project in the massive program to develop the coal resources of the Northern Plains is being prepared. The EIS will analyze Peabody Coal Company’s plans to mine federal coal near their Big Sky Mine south of Colstrip, Mont. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/5.16/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inAugust 3, 1973: Off the road
Club criticizes Kaiparowits
Marga Raskin, a representative of the Sierra Club has, commended Secretary of the Interior Rogers C.B. Morton for halting construction of the Kaiparowits power plant on the grounds that it would significantly degrade southern Utah’s air. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/5.15/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inJuly 6, 1973: We're alive and well, thank you!
Court requires breeder study
A Washington D. C. federal appeals court overruled a lower court decision and said that the Atomic Energy Commission needs to do an environmental impact statement on their proposed liquid metal fast breeder reactor (LMFBR) program. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/5.14/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inJuly 6, 1973: We're alive and well, thank you!
We’re alive and well, thank you!
HCN hasn’t gone from rags to riches, exactly, but we are alive and well. Happily, it’s a story not only of this paper but also you, our readers and stockholders. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/5.14/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inJune 22, 1973: The crisis in energy: stampede corralled
Colstrip challenged
A recent ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court saying that the Environmental Protection Agency cannot allow “significant deterioration” of air quality may deter construction of Montana Power’s Colstrip Units One and Two. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/5.13/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inJune 22, 1973: The crisis in energy: stampede corralled
1973: The crisis in energy – stampede corralled
The stampede into coal development in the northern Great Plains may be suddenly halted. Citizens and conservationists have filed suit to stop development until comprehensive analysis is made of the development’s regional impacts. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/5.13/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inMay 25, 1973: No more trade-offs!
Another disaster in the wings
Following the disastrous episode of the oil spill in the San Juan River, and the consequent danger of oil pollution in Lake Powell, the question has been raised of other potential disasters in that southern Utah area. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/5.11/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inMay 11, 1973: 'I'd hate to pay for another!'
‘Where it’s at’ in environment
A recent report by the National Center for Voluntary Action stresses that one of the major problems facing the environmental movement is lack of government cooperation and encouragement. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/5.10/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inApril 27, 1973: 'Landmark' case heard
Big bang set for Colorado
Project Rio Blanco, a partnership between CER Geonuclear Corp. and the Atomic Energy Commission, will detonate three 30-kiloton nuclear devices underground in northwest Colorado to stimulate extraction of hydrocarbons. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/5.9/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inApril 13, 1973: The crisis in energy: confront or cooperate?
Rancher reprimanded for eagle incident
Acting Secretary of Interior John Whitaker has issued a letter of reprimand to Dean Visintainer, a rancher who pleaded guilty to shooting several golden eagles from an aircraft in northwestern Colorado. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/5.8/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inMarch 30, 1973: Thanks! (to our dedicated readers)
‘Squeaky wheel’ gets the ‘grease’
Many of the sheep ranchers who have been complaining loudest about losses they claim to have suffered from coyotes, according to the National Audubon Society, are those who have been getting the fattest subsidy checks from the federal government. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/5.7/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inMarch 16, 1973: Optimism reigns
Optimism reigns
The miracle may be happening. Reaction to our decision to cease publication was so swift and decisive that now, barring unforeseen circumstances, High Country News appears to be saved. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/5.6/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inMarch 2, 1973: Water report analyzed
Take pork-barrel out of water projects
A report by the National Water Commission offers America a chance to take the pork-barrel politics out of federal financing of dams, flood control projects, canals and irrigation, says the National Audubon Society. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/5.5/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inFebruary 16, 1973: The crisis in energy: strip-mining laws
Sierra Club sets energy policy
The Sierra Club is proposing energy economics reforms that would rapidly phase out all kinds of economic subsidies to fossil-fuel energy industries. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/5.4/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inJanuary 19, 1973: The crisis in energy: impact on Montana
The crisis in energy: impact on Montana
Nothing in recent years has stirred the people of Montana quite so much as the problems of the energy crisis — in particular, how the rapid build-up of industry around the state’s vast coal fields will change the state’s character. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/5.2/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inDecember 22, 1972: A look back
Wild Horse Annie: A Western legend
An HCN interview with Wild Horse Annie, whose discoveries about the condition of wild horses shocked her so deeply that she would dedicate her life to becoming an advocate on the horses’ behalf. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/4.26/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E