A federal sting stirs up Blanding, Utah, which lies in one of the richest archaeological regions in the United States. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/18.15/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Jim Robbins
Posted inApril 15, 1985: Peaches and apples roar back
A Montana rancher struggles against stripmines and an unravelling rural fabric
Since the late 1800s when Patty Kluver’s ancestors and thousands of other pioneer families established ranches across the West, there have been few real changes in that way of life. Now the region is convulsed by change. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/17.7/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inJuly 23, 1984: Grazing in the West
A grazing guru says he can restore the range by doubling the number of cattle
Allan Savory is the guru of a new kind of livestock grazing, anxious to tell the world that many of the present ‘truths’ about range management are not only wrong and contributing to the economic collapse of ranching, but steering the world to the precipice of environmental disaster. Download entire issue to view this article: […]
Posted inApril 16, 1984: The Park Service mission hangs in the balance
A cruel Mother Nature rules the Parks
The keystone of the National Park Service’s management policy is to allow nature to run its course. And that means forest fires, drowned bison and, perhaps, vanishing grizzlies. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/16.7/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inJune 12, 1982: A Midwestern water OPEC
Rest-Rotation: restoring the range
The rest-rotation method could restore grazing land by working with the regenerative properties of range grasses, but some environmentalists have concerns about the method’s effects on wildlife. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/14.12/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inApril 2, 1982: Denver: Power center of the Rockies
Montana’s machine politician
Montana Governor Ted Schwinden has a folksy style, but he he has built a powerful political network to establish a following that defies political parties. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/14.7/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inOctober 30, 1981: Montana
Where prairies and mountains class
The Rocky Mountain Front’s Pine Butte Swamp, an area facing oil development, is the last place in the contiguous United States where grizzly bears come down from the mountains to forage in the lowlands. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/13.21/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inSeptember 18, 1981: Crying wolf -- restoring the 'rapacious predator' to the Rockies
1981: Crying wolf — restoring the ‘rapacious predator’ to the Rockies
Since the completion of the Northern Rocky Mountain Wolf Recovery Plan in 1980, a team of biologists has been working to re-establish breeding populations of wolves in Montana, Idaho and Wyoming. To read this article, click the “View a PDF from the original” link below, or download entire issue: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/13.18/download-entire-issue This article appeared in the […]
Posted inOctober 17, 1980: Politics 1980
“Lee Metcalf” wilderness may shrink to BN, Melcher’s size
A proposal to create the Lee Metcalf Wilderness Area in southwest Montana is being countered by Montana Sen. John Melcher and Burlington Northern Inc., which owns a checkerboard of timber lands in the area. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/12.20/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E