The Magazine

Grants Pass, N.M., was a thriving town built on the uranium boom that peaked in 1980. But in the wake of the uranium bust, businesses are hurting and unemployment has hit 25 percent.

In Part 2 of a two-issue series on boom and bust in Wyoming, Lander is still reeling from U.S. Steel’s decision last April to permanently close its Atlantic City iron ore mine.

The Navy and Air Force are planning to convert 8,500 square miles of public air space in Nevada into a supersonic jet training area.

In Part 1 of a two-issue series on boom and bust in Wyoming, Exxon has announced plans to double the size of its giant Shute Creek gas processing plant already under construction, possibly needing a workforce of 5,000 people.

Down the dusty back roads of the Navajo Nation, scientists are tracking an invisible killer which may be responsible for the maiming of hundreds of Navajo children.

Forest Service Chief Max Peterson comes to Casper, Wyo., and San Francisco, Calif., to speak about recreational user fees, logging subsidies and other controversial issues.

As forest plans are applied to the National Forests over the next fifty years, how are the forests going to look?

To some, the issue with a vetoed Indian health care bill is simply the delivery of health services on and off reservations. But to others it is a possible plot to put the tribes in a position where they must deal away their natural resources at low prices in order to survive.

A special issue with analysis of the November 1984 election, plus a look ahead at how Congress may treat wilderness, water and other issues.

One of the curious paradoxes of the American experience is that many of those who live in closest proximity to wilderness exhibit the greatest contempt for it.

The Central Arizona Project is at least a year away from watering lawns, golf courses and crops in the Phoenix area. But the multibillion-dollar diversion of water out of the Colorado River is already rearranging the way water is viewed in the West.

A special issue putting into perspective the last year’s timber sales, road building and herbicide spraying, the “threat” of RARE III and other debates over “multiple use.”

A report on the Institute of the American West’s conference, Parks in the West and American Culture.

The best way to understand the uproar over the Garrison Diversion is to think of the project as a metaphor for North Dakota’s history and an expression of its psyche.

A special issue exploring acid rain’s causes, effects and efforts to curb it.

Louisiana-Pacific will soon have two aspen flakeboard plants on line in western Colorado, raising questions about “multiple use” forest management.

A special issue with six pages on the Taylor Grazing Act, cattle and elk in National Parks and grazing guru Allan Savory.

Tom Gambler, a career Bureau of Reclamation man, wants to show writer Edward Abbey through Glen Canyon Dam.

A special issue on Idaho’s Great Rift, clashing crustal plates, the Henry Mountains and more.

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.