The Northwest’s energy surplus is the latest battleground in the decades-long trench warfare between salmon and steelhead advocates and the Bonneville Power Administration. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/19.2/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
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Posted inFebruary 2, 1987: The West cleans up its act
The West cleans up its act
An acid rain-causing copper smelter in Douglas, Ariz., closes. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/19.2/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
Posted inJanuary 19, 1987: Rebottling the nuclear genie
The West’s top stories: land, land, land, land
The 1986 High Country News index beginning on page 8 lists hundreds of individual stories, but all are about the same question: the use and control of the land. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/19.1/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inJanuary 19, 1987: Rebottling the nuclear genie
1986 Index
See a list of all High Country News articles published in 1986, categorized by subject. Click link to view PDF. This article appeared in the print edition of the magazine with the headline 1986 Index.
Posted inJanuary 19, 1987: Rebottling the nuclear genie
Rebottling the nuclear genie
A spill at a United Nuclear Corp. uranium mill highlights problems in New Mexico’s uranium belt. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/19.1/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inDecember 22, 1986: An America that did not happen
An America that did not happen
The closure of Camp Grisdale, a planned community for a permanent workforce of loggers on Washington’s Olympic Peninsula, marks the end of a sustained-yield program that was supposed to last at least a century. To read the full text, click on the “View a PDF from the original” link below, or download a PDF of […]
Posted inDecember 22, 1986: An America that did not happen
Post mortem on FOE
With the closure of Friends of the Earth’s western Colorado office in Palisade and its branch offices in Tucson, Ariz., Crested Butte, Colo., and Moab, Utah, FOE’s 17-year conservation program in the intermountain West is now history. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/18.24/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inDecember 22, 1986: An America that did not happen
Treaty ends Colorado water wars
The City of Denver, the West Slope’s Colorado River Water Conservation District and the Northern Colorado Water Conservation District have decided to end decades of courtroom and political bloodletting by signing a tripartite agreement. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/18.24/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inDecember 8, 1986: With isolation and great vats of time
Not with bangs or whimpers, but with luxuries
“Perfect skipping stones” sold in the Early Winters catalogue provide the strongest single piece of evidence yet that Western civilization is collapsing on itself like a dwarf star. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/18.23/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inDecember 8, 1986: With isolation and great vats of time
Bridger-Teton forest plan is very flexible
It’s 10 inches thick, weighs 12 pounds and will do just about anything you want it to. That malleability, according to observers, is the major weakness of the 1,800-page proposed plan for western Wyoming’s Bridger-Teton National Forest. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/18.23/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inDecember 8, 1986: With isolation and great vats of time
With isolation and great vats of time
Art Cuelho, in his 20-by-24-foot garage studio in Big Timber, Mont., runs Seven Buffaloes Press, perhaps the only independent rural press still around. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/18.23/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inNovember 24, 1986: The two-party system is back
As acidic as the driven snow
Mark Story, a hydrologist for the San Juan National Forest, monitors acid rain and snow high in Colorado’s mountains as part of the National Atmospheric Deposition Program. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/18.22/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inNovember 24, 1986: The two-party system is back
In the West: Sen. James McClure and the Forest Service are big losers
Among Western Republicans, McClure is the biggest loser from the Senate shift. For six years he has kept Forest Service timber and roadbuilding budgets high and Bureau of Land Management grazing fees low. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/18.22/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inNovember 24, 1986: The two-party system is back
South Dakota: Reagan’s farm policy leads to a defeat
In a U.S. Senate contest, Democrat Tom Daschle wins after hammering on his opponent’s support of Reagan’s farm policies. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/18.22/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inNovember 10, 1986: The Colorado River as plumbing
Sharing water with the colossus of the North
An account of the settlement of Mexico’s Mexicali Valley; the escape and subsequent recapture of the Colorado River in the early 1900s; the shattering of a made-in-the-U.S.A. hacienda; and the settlement of an international dispute over the river’s saltiness. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/18.21/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inNovember 10, 1986: The Colorado River as plumbing
The Bureau’s Rube Goldberg machines
In the high arid plains of southwest Wyoming, the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation has built Rube Goldberg irrigation systems that keep farmers on the edge of poverty and load up the rivers with salt. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/18.21/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inNovember 10, 1986: The Colorado River as plumbing
They built better than they knew
The upper Colorado River was plumbed to put water on arid lands and to generate electricity. Today those uses are in decline while recreation, urbanization and aesthetics come on strong. Through luck or forethought, the river’s plumbing is proving adaptable to the new demands. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/18.21/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inNovember 10, 1986: The Colorado River as plumbing
What size shoe does and acre-foot wear?
A glossary of water terms for those who wonder why water diversions are not diverting and why it is morally offensive to leave water flowing in a stream. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/18.21/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inOctober 27, 1986: The Missouri River: In Search of Destiny
How could anyone oppose, or favor, the Garrison Project?
North Dakota’s Garrison Project would irrigate hundreds of thousands of acres, cost about $1 million per farm, devastate wildlife habitat, and add only a tiny fraction to the state’s farmland. But the project would also reassure a remote, hurting and suspicious part of America. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/18.20/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E