A wild river is “a necessity of the human spirit.”
Geoffrey O'Gara
Posted inApril 16, 1982: The Big Secret: Highly toxic pesticides in the Rockies
The Big Secret: Highly toxic pesticides in the Rockies
Although the use of toxic chemicals for agriculture in the Rocky Mountains is a public health concern, it is not a matter of public record. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/14.8/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inAugust 16, 2004: Journey of Rediscovery
Bicentennial bash is more than a party for tribes
Note: This article is a sidebar to this issue’s feature story, “The living, breathing natives who made Lewis and Clark.” Four years ago, the late historian Steven Ambrose took his rawhide-tassel jacket on a lecture swing through the Western states, warning of “crowds beyond any of our imagining” when the bicentennial of the 1804 Lewis […]
Posted inMarch 1, 2004: The Last Open Range
The Last Open Range
From Wyoming’s windswept high desert, a question for the West: Do we have to fence it all in?
Posted inAugust 27, 1990: Waterless in Wind River?
Waterless in Wind River?
Midvale, Wyo., farmers worry after the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed last year that the tribes of the Wind River Reservation have rights to over 500,000 acre-feet of water. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/22.16/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inSeptember 25, 1989: Special issue: High Country News is 20
Saga of a High Country Newsman
The effort to get the word out — about wilderness, about archaic mining laws, about illegal shooting of golden eagles, and so many more issues besides — would cost Bell his ranch, many of his friends, and, very nearly, his sanity. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/21.18/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inJune 24, 1983: Breaking faith with Old Faithful
The middle of the madding crowd
Has much changed since Rudyard Kipling toured Yellowstone in 1889 and wished he were dead, rather than be among preening American tourists? Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/15.12/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inAugust 20, 1982: Gas sours wildlife in Wyoming
Gas sours wildlife in Wyoming
Wildlife killed by poisonous, hydrogen sulfide-laden “sour gas” leaking from a natural gas well raises concerns about future oil and gas drilling in Wyoming. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/14.16/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inMarch 5, 1982: Pine beetles munch on, policies differ
Watt’s wilderness proposal sets agenda for energy industry
To an energy industry stretched thin, Interior Secretary James Watt’s temporary ban on oil and gas drilling in wilderness areas is something of a favor. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/14.5/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inJanuary 22, 1982: Juggling wildlife and 'other needs'
Juggling wildlife and ‘other needs’
Is U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service head Robert Jantzen cutting an already undernourished budget and favoring ranching interests over wildlife in his predator control and grazing policies? Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/14.2/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inOctober 30, 1981: Montana
Getting no breaks at C.M Russell
Livestock grazing and wildlife clash in the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s management plan for the Charles M. Russell National Wildlife Refuge. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/13.21/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inJune 26, 1981: The Overthrust moneybelt: Difficult dispersal of impact dollars
The Overthrust moneybelt: Difficult dispersal of impact dollars
A natural gas boom around Evanston, Wyoming, has brought a rise in violent crime, traffic and disintegration of rural culture, but funds set aside to mitigate the impacts haven’t been properly applied. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/13.13/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inMay 29, 1981: Rolling down the road -- the invisible network of nuclear transport
Project Lighthawk gets conservationists off the ground
With his small plane, Michael Stewartt flies journalists, government officials and activists around the Rocky Mountain region to give them a birds-eye view of strips mines, coal-fired power plants and areas of scenic beauty. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/13.11/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inMay 1, 1981: Blowing it: 'ecotage' in Jackson Hole
‘Ecotage’ seeks wild ends but won’t make friends
No philosophical or psychological rationale speaks to the effectiveness of ecotage, Politically, what made sense for the Sixties activists is unlikely to work for wilderness advocates in the Eighties. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/13.9/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inDecember 26, 1980: Jeffrey City: "I don't know a person in town who isn't thinking of leaving"
Jeffrey City: “I don’t know a person in town who isn’t thinking of leaving”
In Jeffrey City, Wyo., a 25-year-old boom town that lies in one of the most hostile environments in the country, the local union struggles to hold the town together amid layoffs caused by a downturn in the uranium industry. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/12.25/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inNovember 14, 1980: Anaconda: The smelter shuts down, and so does the town
Anaconda: The smelter shuts down, and so does the town
Citing antiquated equipment, pollution control problems and foreign competition, Atlantic Richfield Co. announced recently that it will not reopen its Anaconda, Montana, copper smelter, which employs nearly 1,000 people. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/12.22/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inOctober 31, 1980: Archeologists dig for points, paydirt
Powder River’s new rail track moves forward despite foes
Chicago and North Western Transportation Corp. is inching its locomotives towards the coal fields of the Powder River Basin in Wyoming. But local ranchers, Wyoming’s governor and the powerful Burlington Northern Railroad are all trying to keep it out. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/12.21/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inJuly 11, 1980: States, courts, cutbacks put pressure on strip mine agency
States, courts, cutbacks put pressure on strip mine agency
Even as strip mines multiply throughout the Rocky Mountain states, the federal agency responsible for overseeing reclamation of mined lands — the Office of Surface Mining — is reeling under a series of blows. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/12.14/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inJune 13, 1980: Digging up the West for shipment to Japan
In situ uranium project springs leak, but pumps again
The fate of Wyoming’s first commercial-size in situ uranium mine remains uncertain following a Nuclear Regulatory Commission decision giving the operation 90 days to prove it can operate without polluting ground water near Buffalo, Wyo. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/12.12/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inMay 2, 1980: Park Service director ousted in continuing policy strife
Cache la Poudre River: last Front Range chance to flow
Farmers and advocates of Front Range growth winced last month when the U.S. Forest Service and State of Colorado recommended that most of the Cache la Poudre River be protected from major development. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/12.9/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E