The Magazine

Can several million people ski down Colorado’s mountain slopes each winter without destroying the state’s wildlife?

A spectacular chunk of land that Congress designated as wilderness in 1984 has become a new battleground in the dispute between environmentalists and energy companies in Utah.

For three years, Peter Maier, a renegade engineer, fought Utah’s water establishment over its water pollution-control program.

The Church Universal and Triumphant, a wealthy religious group from southern California, recently moved to a ranch called the Royal Teton on the northern boundary of Yellowstone National Park.

Ranchers and the Forest Service butt heads over management of South Dakota’s national grasslands.

To the Rocky Mountain West, the $4.4 billion atom-smashing Superconducting Super Collider represents economic development of the most desirable kind.

Denver faces an annual battle with unhealthy carbon monoxide emitted by cars, trucks, woodstoves and fireplaces.

People living near the Nevada Test Site got as much radiation from a few years of fallout from government testing as they would from natural sources during their entire lifetimes.

Park Service Director William Penn Mott doesn’t agree with U.S. Interior Department official William Horn on many things, including wolf reintroduction.

The Red Desert is quiet now, but the marks remain from a period of oil, gas and uranium exploration and extraction.

A neighborhood suspects the Tucson International Airport, where military aircraft are built and serviced, as the source of cancer-causing pollution.

Preservationists oppose construction of an astronomical observatory on Mount Graham.

Guru of false hopes and an overstocked range, or creator of a Socratic approach to
land management?

Wharf Resources’s open pits, roads, parking lots, heap leach piles, holding ponds and refinery are a vast, complex earth-moving enterprise in the Black Hills.

In a little-noticed battle, 2,500 members of the Northern Ute Indian tribe have re-established sovereignty over three million acres in Utah’s Uintah Basin.

The number of horses on the range doubles roughly every seven years, creating conflict between ranchers, land managers and those who see the animals as a last remnant of the Wild West.

“It sucks” is what an unidentified staffer for U.S. Department of Energy concluded about his agency’s choice of the Hanford Nuclear Reservation as a candidate for the nation’s first high-level nuclear waste dump.

The jerry-built system of wildlife management on a mix of state-owned, federal and private lands is under pressure from private landowners.

An acid rain-causing copper smelter in Douglas, Ariz., closes.

A spill at a United Nuclear Corp. uranium mill highlights problems in New Mexico’s uranium belt.