An enterprising reporter has uncovered the secret of low air fares out of Stapleton Airport. Airlines are indeed losing money on each ticket sold. But they are simultaneously raking in enormous commissions from parking lots, news stands, food dispensers and bars. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/18.7/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Ed Marston
Posted inMarch 18, 1986: Nevada debates the virtues of wilderness
Sagebrush Rebellion has been crushed
Gov. Bruce Babbitt, D-AZ, and a possible presidential aspirant, declared the Sagebrush Rebellion “utterly dead, buried and forgotten.” To read this article, click the “View a PDF from the original” link below. This article appeared in the print edition of the magazine with the headline Sagebrush Rebellion has been crushed.
Posted inFebruary 17, 1986: Wolves make a comeback in the West
The BLM closes access to 75,000 acres of wilderness
The public has lost the only practicable, two-wheel-drive access to Western Colorado’s 75,000-acre Dominguez Wilderness Study Area managed by the Bureau of Land Management. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/18.3/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inFebruary 17, 1986: Wolves make a comeback in the West
A feudal mentality holds back the West
Unless the trashing and privatization stops, the intermountain Rockies will never escape their feudal social and economic situation. Those who now control the land and the land managers don’t have a glimmer of how to lead the region out of its downward slide. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/18.3/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inFebruary 3, 1986: Leadville's poisoned past ... and present
Environmental leaders stand up for orthodoxy
Things are grim if you identify the vigor of the environmental movement with the major groups — but they are not the movement. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/18.2/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inJanuary 20, 1986: The 'eternal silence' is shattered
Conservationists spent much of 1985 fighting roading and logging
Wilderness legislation in 1984 that protected millions of acres of new wilderness also opened millions of acres to new roading and logging. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/18.1/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inJanuary 20, 1986: The 'eternal silence' is shattered
The West’s energy dominoes came crashing down
Dropping oil prices ripple through the West. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/18.1/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inDecember 9, 1985: Sierra Club wins water lawsuit
The life and death of Rocky Mountain towns
Sadly for both the towns and for progressive editors, the times are changing much faster in these towns than the local cultures. It is highly unlikely that these cultures can adapt, even though their survival is at stake. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/17.23/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inDecember 9, 1985: Sierra Club wins water lawsuit
Sierra Club wins water lawsuit
A federal judge has ruled that when Congress creates a wilderness area, it also creates water rights to go with the wilderness. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/17.23/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inNovember 25, 1985: Tribes struggle for sovereignty and power
Indians breathe life into old treaties
Attorneys for tribes in the arid West have sued for and won millions of acre-feet of water over the past two decades. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/17.22/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inNovember 25, 1985: Tribes struggle for sovereignty and power
Tribes struggle for sovereignty and power
Indian tribes are forcing the United States to make good on a few of the promises made to them in the 19th century. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/17.22/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inNovember 11, 1985: One man's indictment of forestry in Arizona
After decades of trying, opponents get the Central Utah Project in the ring
Residents in 12 counties covering one-third of Utah will vote on whether to back or kill the Bonneville Unit of the multibillion-dollar Central Utah Project. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/17.21/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inSeptember 30, 1985: Let the brawl begin
Let the brawl begin
For decades, the Missouri River basin has gotten along without interstate water compacts and lawsuits — but now that’s changing. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/17.18/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inSeptember 16, 1985: Seeing the forest through the eyes of its users
Montana Power wins a big one at Colstrip
The Montana Public Service Commission has reversed an aggressive decision it made in 1984 to deny Montana Power Company a rate increase to fund an expansion of its Colstrip coal-fired power plant. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/17.17/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inAugust 19, 1985: How to articulate the delight?
Colorado is the Appalachia of the West
At one time, all Western states had a similar approach to water. But Colorado now lags in terms of building the public interest into water matters. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/17.16/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inAugust 19, 1985: How to articulate the delight?
Forest logging plan squashed from above
The U.S. Department of Agriculture has taken a giant step into the debate over below-cost timber sales in the Rockies and aspen cutting in Colorado. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/17.16/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inAugust 5, 1985: The Wilderness Society's outstanding alumni
The Wilderness Society’s outstanding alumni
Most former staff from the Wilderness Society are still doing grassroots wilderness work in the West. They just aren’t working for the Wilderness Society. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/17.15/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inJuly 22, 1985: Bailing out a National Monument in New Mexico
Bailing out a National Monument in New Mexico
Heavy runoff has overflowed the Cochiti Reservoir, threatening the Anasazi ruins and wildlife of Bandelier National Monument. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/17.14/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inJune 24, 1985: Murky language lands an EIS in deep water
Murky language lands an EIS in deep water
If a court ruling holds up, federal bureaucrats may have to re-think how they write Environmental Impact Statements. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/17.12/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inApril 15, 1985: Peaches and apples roar back
Peaches and apples roar back
In the wake of the collapse of the early 1980s oil shale boom in and around Palisade, Colo., fruitgrowing is one of the few games in town. (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/17.7/download-entire-issue) This article appeared […]