I lucked out when I landed in Anaconda, Mont. I didn’t have to tell my friends I was a Helen or a Malted. I became an Anacondan. Newspaper folks like to find shortcuts when writing news stories, and one of the best ones around is the ability to describe the people in a town with […]
Jon Klusmire
Posted inJune 12, 1995: The Southwest's last real river: Will it flow on?
Can land trades stop a subdivision and clean up a mine?
REDSTONE, Colo. – The public doesn’t often benefit from the closure and cleanup of a Western mining operation. But it could at Mid-Continent Resources’ defunct coal mines outside this small town. Through an ambitious series of land swaps, the Forest Service hopes to add about 5,800 acres of the mining company’s land to the adjoining […]
Posted inAugust 23, 1993: Timber theft: Logging firms rob a lax agency
Does Windstar have a future or only a past?
The National Wildlife Federation draws fire for the mis-management of Colorado’s Windstar Foundation. To read this article, download this HCN issue in PDF format. This article appeared in the print edition of the magazine with the headline Does Windstar have a future or only a past?.
Posted inMay 17, 1993: Fore! in Santa Fe
Ute Indians return to their homeland
A landmark agreement between tribes and government agencies could protect Ute sacred sites. To read this article, download this HCN issue in PDF format. This article appeared in the print edition of the magazine with the headline Ute Indians return to their homeland.
Posted inFebruary 27, 1989: Synthetic Fuels Revisited, Part I
An oil shale project hangs on, but barely
Unocal did not leave with the rest of the shale crowd in 1982. But all isn’t well with the nation’s first and only commercial-scale oil shale plant. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/21.4/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E