Conflict over the Challis Planning Unit in east-central Idaho, managed by the Bureau of Land Management, is an example of the difficulties faced by that agency when it tries to balance the demands of multiple user groups. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/8.15/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Bruce Hamilton
Posted inJuly 2, 1976: San Luis Valley shows rural ingenuity
What ever happened to the federal land use bill?
David Calfee, an Environmental Policy Center lobbyist for the federal land use planning bill that narrowly failed in the U.S. House of Representatives in 1975, gives insight into what caused the effort to falter. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/8.14/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inJune 18, 1976: An invitation to a very strange place
Dick Randall: a life with coyotes
Dick Randall, who grew up in Wyoming’s wide open spaces and at one time in his life shot hundreds of coyotes from a plane, is now an outspoken opponent of predator control. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/8.13/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inApril 23, 1976: Kaiparowits coal power plans scuttled
Cartoons, counseling, and butterflies
When HCN cartoonist Rob Pudim isn’t slaying social dragons, he’s often out catching butterflies or helping out with Boulder’s methadone program. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/8.9/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inMarch 26, 1976: Jackson Hole wrestles with growth
How to get out the conservation message
KOA-TV Science Editor Don Kinney gives tips on press releases, editorials, and other methods for spreading a conservation message. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/8.7/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inMarch 12, 1976: Saving swamps for ducks and men
Saving swamps for ducks and men
Although swamps have historically been viewed as unattractive and worthless, a building movement — buoyed by federal laws — recognizes wetlands as havens for wildlife that also hold and purify water used by humans. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/8.6/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inFebruary 27, 1976: Salesmen with sun power woo West
A lifetime watching the wilderness
Ann and Myron Sutton are students and teachers of the wilderness, having studied hundreds of wilderness areas in nearly 40 countries and written over 20 books on the wild outdoors. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/8.5/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inFebruary 13, 1976: BLM farm plans hold promise, problems
BLM farm plans hold promise, problems
Lack of clear goals for Idaho agriculture becomes more evident as the U.S. Bureau of Land Management wrestles with plans to convert thousands of acres of desert lands managed by that agency into individual private farms sanctioned by the Desert Land Act and the Carey Act. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/8.4/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inJanuary 16, 1976: Court lifts Powder River injunction
Court lifts Powder River injunction
The U.S. Supreme Court has lifted an injunction barring four coal companies and a railroad from proceeding with coal development in Wyoming’s eastern Powder River Basin, opening the way to full-scale development of the region’s coal. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/8.2/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inJanuary 16, 1976: Court lifts Powder River injunction
Mineral withdrawals: death of 1,000 cuts?
A wave of controversial mining proposals has led to a call for putting certain public lands off-limits to mining, but the mining industry is concerned that too much land is being considered for these restrictions. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/8.2/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inNovember 21, 1975: Phosphate-hungry world after Idaho
Phosphate-hungry world after Idaho
A rush for phosphate in Idaho could mean 22,000 new residents, a substantial loss of wildlife habitat, increased air pollution, and an uncertain future for two resident endangered species. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/7.23/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inOctober 24, 1975: Battle over Teton jetport still rages
Battle over Teton jetport still rages
Two years after public hearings, the National Park Service is still embroiled in a national controversy over whether or not to allow the establishment of a commercial jetport in Grant Teton National Park in Wyoming. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/7.21/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inOctober 10, 1975: S.D. farmers fight Oahe Diversion
S.D. farmers fight Oahe Diversion
The Bureau of Reclamation’s Oahe Diversion Project, ballyhooed for nearly 30 years as the savior of South Dakota’s family farm agricultural economy, is now being bitterly opposed by many of its supposed beneficiaries as construction begins. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/7.20/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inAugust 1, 1975: Power plant ahead
Power plant ahead
Wheatland, Wyoming, has so far dodged the energy boom, but it may be the future home of the Missouri Basin Power Project, a 1,500 megawatt coal-fired power plant. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/7.16/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inJuly 18, 1975: Wilderness endangered by overuse
Life in a heron rookery
Entering a blue heron rookery is like stepping back into prehistoric times with great, reptilian birds. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/7.15/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inJune 6, 1975: Game range transfer threat to wildlife?
Who owns the West’s water?
Tight competition for water in the West is forcing the U.S. government to assert its rights under the federal water reservation doctrine, which maintains that the federal government reserved all the water necessary to operate Indian reservations, national forests, national parks, and oil reserves. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/7.12/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inApril 11, 1975: Ford taps Stan Hathaway for Interior
Ford taps Stan Hathaway for Interior
To understand newly appointed Secretary of the Interior Stan Hathaway, one must understand the history of Wyoming. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/7.8/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inMarch 28, 1975: Taking the lifeblood from the land
Taking the lifeblood from the land
Traditionally, cities on Colorado’s Front Range have turned to the state’s western slope when local water supplies were exhausted. But with strong environmentalist protest to trans-mountain diversion schemes, thirsty growth centers are looking elsewhere — to agricultural water. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/7.7/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inFebruary 14, 1975: Who's getting to your legislator? (and what are they saying?)
A saga of Steamboat Springs
In 1970, faced with rapid growth, Steamboat Springs residents’ opinions of zoning had turned from opposition to action, but it is looking like their efforts were too late. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/7.4/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inJanuary 31, 1975: State roadblock at Beaver Creek
State roadblock at Beaver Creek
The state of Colorado has expressed doubt about whether Beaver Creek can be developed into a Vail-like ski resort without compromising environmental imperatives and local human needs. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/7.3/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E