The Magazine

Although the mines around Leadville, Colo., have closed, acid mine drainage continues to sicken the Arkansas River.

Tourist planes, helicopters and military aircraft make it hard to find peace and quiet in the Grand Canyon.

After a year of negotiation between cattle growers, nine national conservation organizations and congressional aides, no compromise was reached on the controversial issue of fees for livestock grazing on public land.

A federal judge has ruled that when Congress creates a wilderness area, it also creates water rights to go with the wilderness.

A special issue exploring how Indian tribes are forcing the United States to make good on a few of the promises made to them in the 19th century.

Investigative journalist Ray Ring digs into Forest Service reports to explain why Arizona has been logged more intensively than any other Western state.

The U.S. Air Force will soon deploy the first operational MX nuclear missile near Cheyenne, Wyo.

Half of Utah — and the vast majority of its BLM wilderness candidates — lies in the hotly contested and spectacular Colorado Plateau.

For decades, the Missouri River basin has gotten along without interstate water compacts and lawsuits — but now that’s changing.

A special issue on forestry, based on the belief that what happens on the ground counts as much as what the Forest Service decides, the lawyers argue or the Congress legislates.

There are simple pleasures in being a fire lookout in Idaho.

Most former staff from the Wilderness Society are still doing grassroots wilderness work in the West. They just aren’t working for the Wilderness Society.

Heavy runoff has overflowed the Cochiti Reservoir, threatening the Anasazi ruins and wildlife of Bandelier National Monument.

Fruitgrowers in the North Fork Valley in Delta County, Colo., wake up to the dangerous health effects of pesticides.

If a court ruling holds up, federal bureaucrats may have to re-think how they write Environmental Impact Statements.

A special issue examines how, despite the 1973 Endangered Species Act, plants and animals continue to vanish from the earth at a rapid pace.

A special issue on wilderness management.

Taking advantage of the 1872 Mining Law and the exemption in the Wilderness Act, U.S. Borax and the American Smelting and Refining Company want to mine in Montana’s Cabinet Mountains.

Priest Lake’s future is tangled in a web of money-making through the doings and undoings of British financier Sir James Goldsmith.

In the wake of the collapse of the early 1980s oil shale boom in and around Palisade, Colo., fruitgrowing is one of the few games in town.