Don Snow

In Montana, a construction workers’ union has joined the state’s leading environmental group in a lawsuit against a power company and state agencies that granted permits for a 200-mile-long natural gas pipeline. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/15.21/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E

For three years, Dave Odell has dedicated himself to the resurrection of Montana’s irrigation-stressed Bitterroot River. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/15.18/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E

What this administration needs now — according to its spokesman — is a good $4 billion tritium producer to help produce enough strategic fuel for the neutron bomb, the cruise missile, the MX and the other additions to the nuclear arsenal. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/15.15/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E

Yellowstone area residents, mining proponents and others are still quarreling over how much protection to give to Yellowstone National Park’s boundary lands, such as Montana’s Beartooth Range, home to a rich platinum deposit. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/15.12/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E

Inflammatory Interior Secretary James Watt is merely the prominent tip of a large iceberg — a mass of anti-environmentalist individuals and organizations who believe what Watt believes, and worse. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/15.10/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E

The five-year Flathead Basin Environmental Impact Study has brought together biologists, geologists and social scientists to predict potential impacts of growth on a northwest Montana valley. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/15.9/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E

Development finance, coal slurry, hardrock mineral taxation, and the regulation of pesticides consumed the energies of the conservation lobby during the 1983 Montana legislature. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/15.8/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E

Defense of a coal-slurry ban by environmentalists and railroad workers is one example of Montana’s populism, which responds to the needs and desires of the citizens as opposed to the desires of big business. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/15.8/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E

As a result of slower than expected demand, due in part to conservation efforts, dozens of proposed power facilities have been cancelled or delayed. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/15.3/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E

ARCO has closed not only its infamous Washoe Smelter at Anaconda, but also the copper refinery at Great Falls, the mile-wide Berkeley Pit and the entire underground mining operation underlying Butte, Montana. (Plus articles on copper depression in Arizona and Utah.) Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/14.21/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E

Established by Congress in 1976, the National Center for Appropriate Technology, based in Butte, Mont., is surviving despite a slashed budget. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/14.14/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E

The Western Montana Generation and Transmission Association wants to build a dam at the last major water fall in the Northern Rockies, on northwestern Montana’s Kootenai River. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/14.12/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E

Most energy experts now agree that the United States will never again supply a majority of its petroleum needs through production of conventional reserves. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/14.10/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E

Many domestic uranium producers fear that even if the market revived, a flood of foreign uranium could smother the future of the domestic industry. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/13.24/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E

Conservation is simply a grateful recognition of connections, the self in two-way contact with a world of elements and lives. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/13.22/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E