The West’s fire problem helps Navajos return to their roots
James Bishop Jr.
Posted inOctober 23, 2000: Stalking Slade
Learning from John Sawhill
Dear HCN, Fine piece on the late John Sawhill by Jon Margolis (HCN, 9/11/00: Remembering an establishment revolutionary). Lest anyone forget, he was one helluva public servant, and that rare breed, a GOP conservationist. As a Newsweek Washington correspondent, I covered him in the Nixon and Ford administrations during which he put the first ax […]
Posted inOctober 25, 1999: Monumental chaos
Bones of Contention
For reasons still debated among scientists today, Anasazi culture in the Southwest had collapsed by 1300, creating what is known to academics as “The Great Abandonment.” According to Navajo oral histories, the Anasazi were dispersed by a whirlwind because they had abandoned the ways of their ancestors. Whatever the causes, the eastern part of […]
Posted inMarch 30, 1998: A bare-knuckled trio goes after the Forest Service
A giant plume into the air
Note: in the print edition of this issue, this article appears as a sidebar to a back-page opinion piece, “We can have electricity, jobs and clean air.” Hard by the Colorado River at Laughlin, Nev., Southern California Edison’s controversial Mohave power plant began generating electricity in 1971. Its 500-foot stack throws a giant plume into […]
Posted inAugust 19, 1996: Western voices
New rules seek to cap canyon flights
GRAND CANYON, Ariz. – Nearly 10 years ago, when Congress set a national goal to restore natural quiet here, surveys indicated that only 43 percent of the park was unaffected by aircraft noise. Now only 31 percent of the park is considered quiet, defined as free from aircraft noise at least 75 percent of the […]
Posted inJune 24, 1996: Catron County's politics heat up as its land goes bankrupt
Pact promises cleaner canyon air
GRAND CANYON NATIONAL PARK – As thunder rumbled in the distance and a hawk wheeled overhead, Grand Canyon Park Superintendent Rob Arnberger stood on the canyon’s rim and stared into a bank of television cameras. He said what a year ago he doubted he would ever get to tell the world: “Today we are saying […]
Posted inApril 29, 1996: A park boss goes to bat for the land
Here’s a chance to speak up for clean air
Nineteen years ago Congress directed the EPA to clean up “any existing impairment of visibility” in the nation’s cleanest areas, called Class 1, and prevent further degradation caused by pollution from man-made sources such as coal-fired power plants and vehicles. The Environmental Protection Agency failed to act. It will be 1999 before any improvement takes […]
Posted inApril 29, 1996: A park boss goes to bat for the land
Erasing the Southwest’s grandest vista
It was Barry Lopez who said that one of the dreams of man must be to find some place between the extremes of nature and civilization where it is possible to live without regret. Until the 1970s, when air pollution from California, Mexico and coal-fired power plants in the region began to limit visibility, the […]
Posted inApril 4, 1994: Who speaks for the Colorado Plateau?
Who speaks for the Colorado Plateau?
A locally based group tries to set the agenda for 130,000 square miles
Posted inApril 4, 1994: Who speaks for the Colorado Plateau?
The West is hard at work, destroying its past
Note: This article is a sidebar to this issue’s feature story, Who speaks for the Colorado Plateau? The Colorado Plateau is internationally famous for its canyons and spectacular natural beauty, but it also contains the largest concentration of prehistoric ruins, rock art and artifacts in the world. Those traces of its past are being lost, […]
Posted inSeptember 20, 1993: Triumph, Idaho, to EPA: Get out
Forest Service proposals rile Arizonans
The Forest Service’s plans to build a campground and trade land with developers galvanize resistance residents of Sedona and Prescott, Ariz. To read this article, download this HCN issue in PDF format. This article appeared in the print edition of the magazine with the headline Forest Service proposals rile Arizonans.
Posted inJune 15, 1992: Tribe wins back stolen water
Tribe wins back stolen water
A century-long battle for water rights waged by the Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community in Arizona ended as Western film rarely do: The Indians won. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/24.11/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inJune 1, 1992: National forest grazing cuts are stalled by politics
Everett Ruess: ‘I have really lived’
Unless he returns to tell it himself, we’ll never know his fate for certain, but it appears that he began to realize that his love of wilderness, his quest for oneness with nature, had him trapped. He knew he could never go back. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/24.10/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inJanuary 27, 1992: Nuclear Waste: In 10,000 years, how will we say 'Keep Out'?
Group wants to bag the Animal Damage Control Agency
Tucson, Ariz.-based Wildlife Damage Review spreads the word about how taxpayers finance the killing of predators. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/24.1/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E