1984 is ripe for a flood of state wilderness bills to pass Congress, meaning that President Ronald Reagan could end up signing more wilderness legislation into law than any other chief executive.


Rancher fights missiles with six-shooter

Ranchers are standing up to the U.S. Army, which in the 1940s acquired their land to create the White Sands Missile Range, because they feel they were never adequately compensated for the loss of that land. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/15.23/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E

A fable for our time

The existing technological culture won’t be pushed aside without a hard fight. The resilience of the Bureau of Reclamation at Glen Canyon Dam this summer showed that. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/15.23/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E

How Lake Powell almost broke free of Glen Canyon Dam

A harrowing, in-depth account of how the Bureau of Reclamation responded to the Colorado River’s wrathful 1982 summer runoff that nearly broke the Glen Canyon Dam. (To read the full text, click on the “View a PDF from the original” link below, or download a PDF of the entire issue: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/15.23/download-entire-issue.) This article appeared in…

1984 may be a Wilderness Year

1984 is ripe for a flood of state wilderness bills to pass Congress, meaning that President Ronald Reagan could end up signing more wilderness legislation into law than any other chief executive. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/15.23/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E