Does it make sense for Colorado to develop its legal entitlement of the waters of the Colorado River to grow low-value crops like alfalfa? The federal investment in the Animas-La Plata would be over a million dollars per farm. Can such an investment rationally be justified? Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/16.11/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
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Posted inJune 11, 1984: The Big Dam Era on the Colorado River enters a new stage
The Big Dam Era on the Colorado River enters a new stage
A potential legal and physical reworking of the Colorado River could reshape it as much as did the 1956 Colorado River Storage Project Act, which authorized Glen Canyon Dam and others. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/16.11/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inMay 28, 1984: Utah Governor declares war on a Canyonlands nuclear dump
Kootenai Falls decision is different
A Federal Energy Regulatory Commission judge makes a startling decision to reject Montana’s Kootenai Falls Project in favor of preserving the falls in their natural state. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/16.10/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inMay 28, 1984: Utah Governor declares war on a Canyonlands nuclear dump
The Forest Service’s backcountry workers demand higher pay, better treatment
Backcountry workers have long been dissatisfied by the fact that they are on the ground, doing the actual work and dealing with the public, while their status and job security within the Forest Service is low to non-existent. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/16.10/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inMay 28, 1984: Utah Governor declares war on a Canyonlands nuclear dump
Utah Governor declares war on a Canyonlands nuclear dump
Utah Governor Scott Matheson flatly opposes the Department of Energy’s proposal to bury high-level nuclear wastes just outside Canyonlands National Park. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/16.10/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inMay 14, 1984: A stripmine clashes with an ancient Anasazi ruin
A coal miner takes on the safety bureaucracy
Pat Conkle, a former Paonia, Colo. coal miner, has succeeded in forcing the Mine Safety and Health Administration to defend itself before the House Safety and Health Subcommittee. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/16.9/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inMay 14, 1984: A stripmine clashes with an ancient Anasazi ruin
Salt Lake could pickle its surroundings
The Great Salt Lake continues to rise inexorably, possibly to a new high in recorded history. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/16.9/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inMay 14, 1984: A stripmine clashes with an ancient Anasazi ruin
Taking the broad geographical view
Tom Bell reflects on HCN’s move from Lander, Wyo. to Paonia, Colo., saying that HCN is a useful voice, still needed, wherever it’s situated. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/16.9/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inMay 14, 1984: A stripmine clashes with an ancient Anasazi ruin
A stripmine clashes with an ancient Anasazi ruin
The Chimney Rock Coal Company wants to mine a Forest Service site in southwestern Colorado that’s home to well-preserved Anasazi ruins. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/16.9/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inApril 30, 1984: Can the West swim upstream to jobs and happiness?
Yoo-hooing our way to decline
Especially in the West — where independence and conservatism are an authentic part of the regional consciousness — we all understand the hypocritical and ultimately destructive nature of the cargo cult and pork barrel approaches. But we have been able to pretend we do not really understand what is happening. Download entire issue to view […]
Posted inApril 30, 1984: Can the West swim upstream to jobs and happiness?
Phoenix works to turn a Salt River floodplain into a billion-dollar development
A prime example of Arizona’s ambitious plans for Central Arizona Project water is the Rio Salado project in Phoenix, a 20,000 acre development slated for a worthless, debris-filled floodplain on the Salt River. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/16.8/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inApril 30, 1984: Can the West swim upstream to jobs and happiness?
Solar energy is about life rather than lifestyle in the San Luis Valley
A practical homesteading couple spreads their enthusiasm for solar energy through the non-profit group they founded, People’s Alternative Energy Services. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/16.8/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inApril 30, 1984: Can the West swim upstream to jobs and happiness?
1983 Index
See a list of all High Country News articles published in 1983, categorized by subject. Click link to view PDF. This article appeared in the print edition of the magazine with the headline 1983 Index.
Posted inApril 16, 1984: The Park Service mission hangs in the balance
Are National Park employees fighting for their parks or against efficiency?
Department of Interior program A-76, which would trim inefficiencies from the National Park Service, is drawing opposition. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/16.7/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inApril 16, 1984: The Park Service mission hangs in the balance
A cruel Mother Nature rules the Parks
The keystone of the National Park Service’s management policy is to allow nature to run its course. And that means forest fires, drowned bison and, perhaps, vanishing grizzlies. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/16.7/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inApril 16, 1984: The Park Service mission hangs in the balance
1983 Index
See a list of all High Country News articles published in 1985, categorized by subject. Click link to view PDF. This article appeared in the print edition of the magazine with the headline 1983 Index.
Posted inApril 2, 1984: Oil shale comes on hard times
A tri-state wilderness area causes strife
A recently released Bureau of Land Management Draft EIS for wilderness within Owyhee Canyonlands in Oregon, Idaho and Nevada has sparked controversy. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/16.6/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inApril 2, 1984: Oil shale comes on hard times
Industry and government charge environmentalists with bad faith negotiating
An ambitious attempt to create once-and-for-all comprehensive national oil shale legislation has collapsed amidst bitterness and mistrust. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/16.6/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inApril 2, 1984: Oil shale comes on hard times
Union Oil’s Fred Hartley fights Wall Street vultures and conservationists
Fred Hartley is a proud, hard-driving oil company chief executive officer who doesn’t understand why he or Union Oil should have to explain a damn thing to the media or the public. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/16.6/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inMarch 19, 1984: Foes launch first-strike attack on MX
Nation’s last caribou get federal protection
The last remaining herd of caribou in the lower 48 states, in the Selkirk Mountains of northern Idaho, has been listed as an endangered species by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/16.5/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E