With bats in the attic, skunks and marmots under the floor, deer mice in the corners and cluster flies throughout the house, Kathleen Meyer may want to sleep on the deck, but at least she no longer has to shit in the woods. In Barefoot Hearted: A Wild Life Among Wildlife, Meyer, author of the […]
Bert Lindler
Posted inDecember 30, 1991: Animal rights group takes aim at hunters
Animal rights group takes aim at hunters
Animal-rights activist Wayne Pacelle has his sights set on hunting in the West. So far, he’s wounded or killed hunts for black bears in California and Colorado, grizzly bears and buffalo in Montana, and elk in Arizona. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/23.24/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inOctober 7, 1991: Two say politics rules their agencies
Experts learn how man used to stick it to mammoths
Before Bob Perkins of Bozeman, Mont., applied beer, engineering and thought to the problem, archaeologists really didn’t know how early hunters used the atlatl, or throwing stick. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/23.18/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inMay 20, 1991: Solar power becomes a reality
A Vietnam vet tries to preserve the Blackfeet culture
Twenty years after a Viet Cong rocket left him with a concussion and flesh wounds, Ron West has become a warrior for Blackfeet spiritual leaders fighting to preserve the Badger-Two Medicine area south of Glacier National Park. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/23.9/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inDecember 17, 1990: Animas-La Plata: still flawed
Timber cuts raised in northern Rockies
Supervisors of many national forests in the northern Rockies have been ordered to cut more timber than they recommended. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/22.24/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inJuly 16, 1990: Wolves make a comeback in Montana
Wolves make a comeback in Montana
While politicians, scientists and bureaucrats argue over reintroduction of the wolf to the western United States, the animals have moved south into Montana to occupy long-vacant habitat. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/22.14/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inOctober 23, 1989: In Hells Canyon's: timber cutting, jet boats and general neglect
Grass-eating tanks are fought by ranchers in Montana
Montana’s National Guard tank brigade wants to train in a 1,500-square-miles part of the state. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/21.20/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inApril 10, 1989: Drought, fire and cold ravage Yellowstone's elk
Drought, fire and cold ravage Yellowstone’s elk
As a harsh winter follows a summer of fire, up to one-third of Yellowstone National Park’s 21,000 northern herd elk may die, either at the hands of hunters or from starvation. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/21.7/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inSeptember 26, 1988: The bust in agriculture and mining
Life without fanciness: Getting by on the Plains
When the thermometer drops to 35 degrees below zero and winds whip off the Sweetgrass Hills to sift snow through the cracks of his homestead shack near the Canadian border, Lloyd Oswood turns up the fuel oil burner in his converted wood stove. “It’s not the best goddamn thing,” he said as he took another […]
Posted inFebruary 3, 1986: Leadville's poisoned past ... and present
Mountain goats are up against the wall
Increased public access to mountain areas has brought increased sport hunting and poaching, which biologists now realize was heavier at first than many mountain goat populations could withstand. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/18.2/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E