Bruce Babbitt, secretary of the Interior Department, represents the face of the emerging West. To read this article, download this HCN issue in PDF format. This article appeared in the print edition of the magazine with the headline The West, according to The New York Times.
Essays
Posted inMarch 8, 1993: A famous skeleton returns to the earth
Don’t look for free inquiry at the West’s land-grant colleges
Essay on the role of western academics in policy decisions. To read this article, download this HCN issue in PDF format. This article appeared in the print edition of the magazine with the headline Don’t look for free inquiry at the West’s land-grant colleges.
Posted inMarch 8, 1993: A famous skeleton returns to the earth
How two logging towns were lost
An essay on growing up in Hilt, Calif., and Happy Camp, Calif. To read this article, download this HCN issue in PDF format. This article appeared in the print edition of the magazine with the headline How two logging towns were lost.
Posted inMarch 8, 1993: A famous skeleton returns to the earth
The rooted meet the transient at Taos Pueblo
An insect infestation in Taos Pueblo runs its course. To read this article, download this HCN issue in PDF format. This article appeared in the print edition of the magazine with the headline The rooted meet the transient at Taos Pueblo.
Posted inFebruary 22, 1993: The continuing saga of New Mexico's Gray Ranch
The only hope for wilderness is to save all the parts
Mike Bader, executive director of the Alliance for the Wild Rockies, advocates preserving the Northern Rockies in its entirety as an ecosytem. To read this article, download this HCN issue in PDF format. This article appeared in the print edition of the magazine with the headline The only hope for wilderness is to save all […]
Posted inFebruary 8, 1993: Lawmakers turn the Fifth into sharp-pointed sword
A unique ecumenism at Snoqualmie Falls
Dam relicensing threatens the social and spiritual significance of Snoqualmie Falls in Washington state. To read this article, download this HCN issue in PDF format. This article appeared in the print edition of the magazine with the headline A unique ecumenism at Snoqualmie Falls.
Posted inJanuary 25, 1993: Can Bruce Babbitt make Interior hum?
Wilderness politics are anything but simple
The President of the Montana Wilderness Association’s governing council offers an opinion on the Montana Wilderness bill. To read this article, download this HCN issue in PDF format. This article appeared in the print edition of the magazine with the headline Wilderness politics are anything but simple.
Posted inNovember 16, 1992: The 1992 Election: Nationally a revolution, in the West an evolution
This bird fills more niches than a cowpie has bugs
The author reflects in magpies. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/24.21/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inNovember 16, 1992: The 1992 Election: Nationally a revolution, in the West an evolution
This process is out of control
If the Spanish explorers could have foreseen the many bitter conflicts over the Colorado, speculated historian Norris Hundley, they might have named it “River of Controversy.’ Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/24.21/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inNovember 2, 1992: The nuclear age: 1945, the beginning; 1992, the beginning of the end
The West’s nuclear Mandarins have reaped what they sowed
To those of us who grew up in the 1950s reading I.F. Stone’s Weekly, with its regular exposes of the dangers of above-ground nuclear testing, the accompanying coverups and denials, and the silence of the mass media on those subjects, the end of all nuclear testing is a shock. Download entire issue to view this […]
Posted inAugust 24, 1992: Leave it to beaver
Let’s stop dirt-bike noise and ‘the-end-is-here’ noise
“Wise-users” may not have much influence, but they should give environmentalists pause to reconsider their long-run strategies. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/24.15/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inJuly 13, 1992: Special issue: Part 2 of The Electric Revolution
Power could come from a shared vision
These two special issues of High Country News say that we have overbuilt our electric power system by up to five times. We could shut down up to four out of five power plants, coal mines, and hydroelectric dams while providing the same services and a higher quality of life. Download entire issue to view […]
Posted inJune 15, 1992: Tribe wins back stolen water
‘I lay lizard-like on a boulder, basking and sun-drying’
I’d always had this urge, possibly primeval, to live in a cave for a while. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/24.11/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inJune 1, 1992: National forest grazing cuts are stalled by politics
Everett Ruess: ‘I have really lived’
Unless he returns to tell it himself, we’ll never know his fate for certain, but it appears that he began to realize that his love of wilderness, his quest for oneness with nature, had him trapped. He knew he could never go back. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/24.10/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inMay 18, 1992: A small town fights a large mine
How you and a bear can survive a chance meeting
When meeting a black bear, friendly or otherwise, it is best simply not to move … Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/24.9/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inDecember 30, 1991: Animal rights group takes aim at hunters
Where neighbor is a verb
Minutiae matters in rural South Dakota. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/23.24/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inDecember 16, 1991: Are the bison coming?
Death and anarchy above Tucson
A head-on. From the skid marks it looked like the Camaro had been cutting the inside of the curve, way over the double-yellow centerline … Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/23.23/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inAugust 26, 1991: Government tames its wild, destructive dam
Politics can’t save endangered species
We proudly say that ours is a government of laws, not of men. But there are times when we expect too much of laws and not enough of women and men. This is the case with the failure of the Endangered Species Act. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/23.15/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inJuly 15, 1991: Special issue: The Central Arizona Project story
A father’s view of a dam proposal
One weekend in April, I was planning to be on the Colorado River, spending some time in Horsethief and Ruby canyons. Winds and cold temperatures cancelled my plans. Instead I found myself in the office reviewing the” Application for Preliminary Permit” for the Horsethief Canyon Water Power Project. Download entire issue to view this article: […]
Posted inJune 17, 1991: A wilderness war: Utah's canyons cut to the bone
Echoes from a fire at Beaver Creek
Today I sat in a stand of lodgepole pine trees that met death during the Beaver Creek fire in Grand Teton National Park. Their charred trunks bristled the hillside like quills on the back of a porcupine huddled in self-protection. Unlike people, these trees remain standing after their deaths, sentinels in their own graveyard. Download […]