For the Shoshone and Arapahoe Indian tribes, everything is at stake in a suit filed by the state of Wyoming requiring more than 20,000 water users in the Bighorn River basin to defend their water rights.


Bighorn water battle goes to court

For the Shoshone and Arapahoe Indian tribes, everything is at stake in a suit filed by the state of Wyoming requiring more than 20,000 water users in the Bighorn River basin to defend their water rights. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/9.8/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E

Stubborn tree farmer rescues forest

Gifford Pinchot is best remembered as the first head of the U.S. Forest Service, but he was also a man who for 20 years pined for his dead girlfriend, who astounded his own Republican party by appointing women and blacks to office, and who thought John Muir demented. The first in a two-part series about…

The bald eagle: our endangered emblem

Roughly two hundred years after the bald eagle was chosen as America’s national symbol, population studies conducted by the Department of Interior reveal a devastating nose-dive in the numbers of bald eagles. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/9.8/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E