Department of Interior program A-76, which would trim inefficiencies from the National Park Service, is drawing opposition. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/16.7/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Ed Marston
Posted inApril 2, 1984: Oil shale comes on hard times
Industry and government charge environmentalists with bad faith negotiating
An ambitious attempt to create once-and-for-all comprehensive national oil shale legislation has collapsed amidst bitterness and mistrust. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/16.6/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inApril 2, 1984: Oil shale comes on hard times
Union Oil’s Fred Hartley fights Wall Street vultures and conservationists
Fred Hartley is a proud, hard-driving oil company chief executive officer who doesn’t understand why he or Union Oil should have to explain a damn thing to the media or the public. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/16.6/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inMarch 19, 1984: Foes launch first-strike attack on MX
Can the Forest Service be reformed?
We have followed the agency for a decade. The sum total of the positive, constructive things we can say is that there are good people out in the field. And some of them have the courage and ingenuity to do good work despite their superiors. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/16.5/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inMarch 5, 1984: Linowes Commission raps coal leasing
Linowes Commission raps coal leasing
The Linowes Commission has found James Watt’s Department of Interior guilty of man-handling coal leasing. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/16.4/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inFebruary 20, 1984: How Hugh Kaufman moves the ball
This year, the Colorado River will bury us in electricity
Last year’s precipitation came late in the season and flooded the Colorado River with water. This year the snows came early, and will flood the region with electricity. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/16.3/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inFebruary 20, 1984: How Hugh Kaufman moves the ball
How Hugh Kaufman moves the ball
EPA Superfund whistleblower Hugh Kaufman travels the country telling one horror story after another about the Carter and Reagan administrations. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/16.3/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inJanuary 23, 1984: The future of the West
Does a rising Great Salt Lake portend a wet Western future?
For the seventh year in a row, the Great Salt Lake is rising, threatening Interstate highways, wildlife sanctuaries, thousands of homes and businesses, and possibly downtown Salt Lake City itself. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/16.1/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inDecember 26, 1983: Residents fight to control a toxic dump
Watt’s coal commission pushes for leasing
The Linowes Commission, born of Congressional dissatisfaction with Secretary James Watt’s approach to coal leasing, is pushing for changes in laws and procedures that will allow the federal government to make leasing more attractive. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/15.24/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inDecember 12, 1983: 1984 may be a Wilderness Year
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
Posted inDecember 12, 1983: 1984 may be a Wilderness Year
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
Posted inOctober 14, 1983: A lawsuit drills oil and gas leases
The busted West competes for a TV-dinner factory
Three Western communities recently went all out to attract a $75 million Stouffer Corporation factory and its 1200 jobs. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/15.19/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inOctober 14, 1983: A lawsuit drills oil and gas leases
A lawsuit drills oil and gas leases
The battle over oil and gas drilling in the Palisades area straddling the Idaho-Wyoming border illustrates the chaotic way in which natural resource development and wilderness preservation decisions are made. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/15.19/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inOctober 3, 1983: Floods reveal water policy chaos
Watt calls out the ‘True America’
James Watt must be seen as a man with a mission. Unlike a Richard Nixon or a Ronald Reagan, Watt’s mission is more important to him than politics. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/15.18/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inSeptember 19, 1983: Acid rain: a corrosive issue across the nation
Acid rain won’t boom the West’s coal
Although the passage of the Clean Air Act in 1970 created higher demand for low-sulfur coal, quadrupling Western coal production in a decade, the 1980s acid rain legislation won’t have the same effect. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/15.17/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inSeptember 19, 1983: Acid rain: a corrosive issue across the nation
Acid rain: a corrosive issue across the nation
Despite a few rearguard skirmishes over the “scientific” question, the real issue has become: how much reduction in acidic emissions will there be, and how will those reduction be achieved? Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/15.17/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inSeptember 5, 1983: Dollars no longer flow uphill
Nuking the media
Trickery and half-truths are what the nuclear industry and its appendages fed to America’s journalists for several decades. It used journalists to tell America that nuclear power was perfectly safe, run by well-trained technicians, and would provide the nation with endless amounts of very cheap energy. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/15.16/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inSeptember 5, 1983: Dollars no longer flow uphill
Dollars no longer flow uphill
Everyone from dam builders to dam blockers agrees that no new, large and federally funded dams are likely to be built. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/15.16/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inApril 15, 1983: Life after oil shale
Life after oil shale
On Colorado’s western slope, the collapse of the rising oil shale boom has been both deep and wide. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/15.7/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E