The Magazine

An HCN exclusive interview with Interior Secretary James Watt during a visit to Lander, Wyo.

Acid rain, which could be exacerbated by oil and gas development, is harming lakes in Colorado and elsewhere in the West.

The Bureau of Land Management is again processing homestead applications authorized by the Desert Land Act, which has long been used to claim marginal farmland in Idaho.

Wildlife killed by poisonous hydrogen sulfide-laden “sour gas” leaking from a natural gas well raises concerns about future oil and gas drilling in Wyoming.

Outside Meeteetse, Wyo., the debate has shifted from whether black-footed ferrets exist to how to ensure their survival.

A special issue with articles on Reagan’s energy policies, the Montana’s National Center for Appropriate Technology, and solar power.

The water bill passed by Wyoming’s 1982 Legislature is being criticized by environmental groups, who say it lacks comprehensive, long-term water planning.

As the Midwest demands Western coal, the West eyes the Midwest’s bountiful water, brewing lively political rhetoric and difficult questions in the Midwest.

A special issue on boom and bust in Wyoming, with articles on troubled ranch subsidies, transport of hazardous materials, and construction of a giant coal-fired power plant.

Coyotes continue to survive and adapt, despite decades of efforts to exterminate them.

It’s been five years since Congress passed the Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act requiring coal companies to reclaim strip-mines, but the science and methods of reclamation are still being developed.

A special issue on agriculture, with articles on agriculture economics, soil erosion and the secrecy surrounding the use of pesticides in Rocky Mountain states.

Despite becoming the bustling hub of the West’s energy boom, Denver is tied to an outside business elite, and remains a secondary center of power whose major role consists of dominating more exploited regions of the interior.

Environmentalists oppose bills, supported by snowmobiling and timber interests, that would establish more wilderness in Montana and Wyoming.

Forest managers are responding to the mountain pine beetle epidemic, which is killing trees across the Rocky Mountain region, with an environmentally-based method called “integrated pest management.”

A special issue on Utah, with articles on a proposed nuclear waste disposal facility near Canyonlands National Park, illegal workers, a controversial land swap, and Utah Governor Scott Matheson.

Questionable hunting practices on the Wind River Indian Reservation raise issues about tribal autonomy and wildlife management.

Is U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service head Robert Jantzen cutting an already undernourished budget and favoring ranching interests over wildlife in his predator control and grazing policies?

A special winter issue with articles on snowmobiling in national parks, avalanche know-how and swow camping.

Many domestic uranium producers fear that even if the market revived, a flood of foreign uranium could smother the future of the domestic industry.