A four-year drought has humbled the Missouri River and plunged its 10 basin states into a sour quarrel with one another and the Army Corps of Engineers, the river’s federal boss. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/23.4/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
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Posted inMarch 12, 1991: Missouri: a river basin at war
Preservation or development for Idaho’s Oregon Trail?
As most of the Oregon Trail is lost to development, preservationists and developers are wrangling over a segment of the trail in Idaho that still contains visible wagon ruts. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/23.4/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inFebruary 25, 1991: Colorado enters a new water era
Oregon’s Enola Hill: ‘diseased forest’ or sacred site?
The Forest Service wants to log the steep, forested rise near Mount Hood. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/23.3/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inFebruary 25, 1991: Colorado enters a new water era
The perils of illegal action
The more one becomes involved in conscious law-breaking, whether nonviolent civil disobedience or monkeywrenching, the more one needs to be scrupulously deliberate about doing so. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/23.3/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inFebruary 25, 1991: Colorado enters a new water era
Colorado enters a new water era
The death of Denver’s Two Forks dam project has turned the state’s archetypal Western water establishment on its head. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/23.3/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inFebruary 11, 1991: Idaho savors its waters as region seeks more hydropower
Montana’s bison extermination policy to continue
A national animal-rights group failed to convince a federal judge that the state of Montana should stop killing free-roaming Yellowstone National Park bison. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/23.2/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inFebruary 11, 1991: Idaho savors its waters as region seeks more hydropower
The rural West: a playground for the rich?
A posh development near Santa Fe riles locals. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/23.2/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inFebruary 11, 1991: Idaho savors its waters as region seeks more hydropower
Idaho savors its waters as region seeks more hydropower
The Pacific Northwest’s dawning power shortage is adding new impetus to build more hydroelectric dams in Idaho, while the state bills itself as ‘the whitewater capital of the world.’ Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/23.2/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inJanuary 28, 1991: Coyote slaughter: A federal killing machine rolls on
Coyote slaughter: A federal killing machine rolls on
In the absence of any comprehensive national strategy to handle predatory animals, the Agriculture Department’s Animal Damage Control branch has emerged as the one program to determine the fate of American predators. It does this primarily by killing them. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/23.1/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inJanuary 28, 1991: Coyote slaughter: A federal killing machine rolls on
1990 Index
See a list of all High Country News articles published in 1991, categorized by subject. Click link to view PDF. This article appeared in the print edition of the magazine with the headline 1990 Index.
Posted inJanuary 28, 1991: Coyote slaughter: A federal killing machine rolls on
Nevada Test Site protesters hear it in Kazakh
When 2,500 anti-nuclear protesters came here to vex the Nevada Test Site early in January, probably the last thing they expected was a lecture on democracy from their Soviet counterparts in the peace movement. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/23.1/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inJanuary 28, 1991: Coyote slaughter: A federal killing machine rolls on
The sudden demise of the whitebark pine
In the upper reaches of North America’s alpine terrain, the whitebark pine has lived for centuries, with many trees surviving for as long as 800 years. But today the species is on a serious decline, and some scientists believe the trees are waving a red flag at us. Download entire issue to view this article: […]
Posted inDecember 31, 1990: The land no one wanted
How a gold mining company keeps expanding in Montana
Zortman Mining Co., a wholly-owned subsidiary of Pegasus Gold Inc., recently proposed and won approval of a major expansion at its mine in the Little Rocky Mountains. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/22.25/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inDecember 31, 1990: The land no one wanted
Montana bison hunts presage a range war
Montana’s largest hunting organization has joined animal-rights activists and conservationists in condemning the state’s hunt on bison leaving Yellowstone National Park this winter. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/22.25/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inDecember 31, 1990: The land no one wanted
The land no one wanted
The Western Shoshone look homeward to Ruby Valley, Nevada. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/22.25/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inDecember 17, 1990: Animas-La Plata: still flawed
Animas-La Plata: still flawed
The $590 million Animas-La Plata water project Congress reauthorized in 1988 continues to generate controversy in Colorado. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/22.24/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inDecember 17, 1990: Animas-La Plata: still flawed
How to remedy overgrazing
This reader, for one, does not agree with HCN’s analysis of why overgrazing has occurred and the proper course for resolving its tragic environmental legacy. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/22.24/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inDecember 17, 1990: Animas-La Plata: still flawed
Timber cuts raised in northern Rockies
Supervisors of many national forests in the northern Rockies have been ordered to cut more timber than they recommended. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/22.24/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inDecember 3, 1990: A dead end for the grizzly?
Gold and grizzlies: a bad combination
In the mountains north of Cooke City and in other national forests surrounding Montana’s Absaroka- Beartooth Wilderness, important grizzly hear habitat is being threatened by a “neo-gold rush” — the recent explosion of hard rock mining on public lands. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/22.23/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inDecember 3, 1990: A dead end for the grizzly?
Mules dance a backwoods ballet
Cal Samsel, based in Huson, Mont., runs a nine-mule team, delivering supplies to places in national forests in Idaho, Montana and the Dakotas where trucks can’t drive and helicopters can’t land. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/22.23/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E