HOUSE OF GARBAGE Call it the house that Goodwill built. A recently completed home in Missoula, Mont., carries the concept of second-hand construction materials to new levels. Built by the Center for Resourceful Building Technology, the 2,400-square-foot house showcases dozens of innovative products. Recycled newspaper went into its wall panels, shelving and insulation; light bulbs […]
Jim Stiak
Posted inAugust 23, 1993: Timber theft: Logging firms rob a lax agency
Logging firms rob a lax agency
Forest Service practices permit logging fraud by the Columbia River Scaling and Grading Bureau. To read this article, download this HCN issue in PDF format. This article appeared in the print edition of the magazine with the headline Logging firms rob a lax agency.
Posted inJune 14, 1993: Oregon's Trojan horse
Oregon’s Trojan horse
Fatally flawed nuclear power plant is shut
Posted inJune 14, 1993: Oregon's Trojan horse
WPPSS’s endless saga
After Trojan closes, Oregon’s last nuclear power plant faces an uncertain future. To read this article, download this HCN issue in PDF format. This article appeared in the print edition of the magazine with the headline WPPSS’s endless saga.
Posted inJune 14, 1993: Oregon's Trojan horse
How to repack and shut Pandora’s box
The decommissioning of the Trojan nuclear power plant may serve as a model for other plants. To read this article, download this HCN issue in PDF format. This article appeared in the print edition of the magazine with the headline How to repack and shut Pandora’s box.
Posted inOctober 19, 1992: Water & Power
Eugene: A gathering of green energy
Eugene, Ore., boasts a concentration of conservationists perhaps unmatched in the rest of the country. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/24.19/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inApril 22, 1991: Special issue: Northwest salmon at the crossroads
Why logging and salmon don’t mix
Clearcut logging allows rain to wash away the gravel salmon need for spawning. The loss of shade also can raise the temperature of the water to lethal levels. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/23.7/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inSeptember 24, 1990: The West's ailing ski industry turns to all-season mega-resorts
Raw-log export ban helps Northwest
Trees cut on state lands in the West can no longer slip past local mills onto foreign-bound ships. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/22.18/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inJuly 16, 1990: Wolves make a comeback in Montana
Bush team quick-kicks the spotted owl issue to Congress
Federal officials recently announced plans to dilute the Endangered Species Act and continue logging the owl’s habitat. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/22.14/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inApril 9, 1990: Groups plot political strategies for ancient forest protection
Ancient forest protection: Groups plot political strategies
As the effects of last year’s congressional compromise trickle down to the ground and the ancient forests of the Northwest continue to fall as fast as ever, conservationists and politicians have been wrestling to draft new legislation that would save the remaining trees. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/22.7/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inApril 9, 1990: Groups plot political strategies for ancient forest protection
The most complex ecosystems on earth
Scientists have discovered that old-growth forests, far from being biological deserts, are among the most complex ecosystems on earth, habitat for dozens of animals that might not be able to survive anywhere else. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/22.7/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inDecember 4, 1989: The West's fouled waters, Part II: The new reclamation
Bringing back the range
In Oregon, ranchers, academics and environmentalists are managing watersheds of small creeks with chainsaws, fire and cattle to bring those creeks back to life and save an endangered trout. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/21.23/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inJuly 31, 1989: Nuclear plant's cover is blown
The old growth fight and logging go on
Twenty-four people were arrested July 11 while protesting the logging of old-growth forests in southern Oregon’s North Kalmiopsis area. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/21.14/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inJune 5, 1989: Forester challenges his agency to a discussion
Forester challenges his agency to a discussion
It wasn’t until timber sales planner Jeff DeBonis was transferred to the Willamette National Forest — the biggest timber-producing national forest in the country — that what he saw made him open his mouth. 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/21.11/download-entire-issue This […]
Posted inFebruary 15, 1988: South Dakota Sioux demand the Black Hills
Dynamiteer makes instant old-growth
Larry Wineberg makes the biggest birdhouses in the Pacific Northwest by blowing Douglas firs in half. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/20.3/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inJanuary 5, 1988: Is the grizzly adapting fast enough?
It is very early springtime on Mt. St. Helens
Above, there once was a mountain; below, a new one is rising, a jumbled mound of steaming magma. Surrounding it, striped spires of rock shoot 2,000 feet straight up from the bottom of North America’s most famous volcano. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/20.1/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inNovember 23, 1987: The wolf in the West: Singing a sad song
Cancer strikes indirectly at the slow-growing yew
With the discovery that it may help cure cancer, a long-ignored tree has become the center of a lively debate in the Pacific Northwest. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/19.22/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inJanuary 19, 1987: Rebottling the nuclear genie
An attempt to save the last 10 percent
In one of the more contested timber sales last year, 20 people were arrested while demonstrating against the logging of 63 acres near Detroit, Ore. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/19.1/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E