Note: This article is a sidebar to this issue’s feature story, The fight for Reclamation. So far, it is the rivers of the region that have suffered the greatest change in canyon country. This is not the fault of Major John Wesley Powell, a largely self-taught naturalist, geologist and ethnologist. Powell went on to organize […]
T.H. Watkins
Posted inMay 17, 1993: Fore! in Santa Fe
We’re in this fight together
Some grass-roots workers and Washington-based politicians are partners for the environment. To read this article, download this HCN issue in PDF format. This article appeared in the print edition of the magazine with the headline We’re in this fight together.
Posted inOctober 8, 1990: Can natural gas fuel a Rocky Mountain high?
Ickes, Part II: ‘So long as I am Secretary …’
Harold L. Ickes, President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s Secretary of the Interior, once described himself to a congressional committee as being “as hard-boiled a conservationist as there is in this country.” Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/22.19/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inSeptember 24, 1990: The West's ailing ski industry turns to all-season mega-resorts
Ickes, Part I: Interior’s noisy reformer
If life were intended to be simple, God would not have invented Harold L. Ickes, Franklin D, Roosevelt’s spiky Secretary of the Interior, who was not one man, but several. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/22.18/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E