The residents of Phoenix, Albuquerque and Tucson are no more southwesterners than the American employees of oil companies, living in Saudi Arabia in sealed compounds complete with Wataburger stands, are Saudi Arabians. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/14.25/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Peter Wild
Posted inApril 3, 1981: Oil shale future: Jewel or synfuel?
Greeley said, ‘Go West,’ but fought the 19th century ‘Great Barbeque’ of public land
Horace Greeley, best know for saying ‘Go West, young man,” also said “Nature offers us good bargains, but she does not trust and will not be cheated.” Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/13.7/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inNovember 28, 1980: Channeling the stream of toxic wastes
The prodigal son became a conservation father
John James Audubon, an amateur painter and inept storekeeper in various towns along the American frontier, made remarkable contributions to art and science that became a force for conservation. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/12.23/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inOctober 3, 1980: Tampering with the elements: success or failure?
Catlin took his palette West to paint Indians
By steamboat, canoe, horse and sometimes staggering fever-ridden on his own two legs, George Catlin covered thousands of miles along the Missouri River and Rocky Mountains. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/12.19/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inMarch 7, 1980: How many coal bucks should a smart state lasso?
Influential ‘techno-twit’ mines U.S. energy inefficiencies
Amory Lovins says the industrialized world suffers not from energy want but from energy waste, and foresees a future where energy bills go down, benefiting both utilities and consumers. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/12.5/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inJanuary 25, 1980: Study of radioactive homes 'lost' for eight years
How Grinnell and the buffalo rescued Yellowstone
George Bird Grinnell, commissioned to explore the newly formed Yellowstone National Park and report on its wonders, found in the buffalo a concrete symbol to generate deep public sentiment. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/12.2/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inDecember 28, 1979: Fending off nature's bill collector with planning
Fending off nature’s bill collector with planning
President Franklin Delano Roosevelt understood stewardship — understood the significance of an America overgrazed, overfarmed and carelessly logged. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/11.25/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inNovember 30, 1979: Agency's wilderness grazing policies 'too pure'
Lone Ranger Nader: Just what does he want?
A look at Ralph Nader’s background lends support to a view of him as a product of America’s traditional idealism — an idealism that has generated conflicts throughout the country’s history because it is frequently at odds with political and economic realities. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/11.23/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inOctober 19, 1979: Sizing up a new fuel that may be coming soon to a pump near you
Barry Commoner boils ecology down to basics: ‘There’s no free lunch.’
Barry Commoner, the ‘Paul Revere of Ecology,’ is now stepping into the political arena to shape the Citizens Party, a group that he says will address such issues as jobs, inflation, alternative energy and citizen control of natural resources in the 1980 election. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/11.20/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inSeptember 21, 1979: Northern Tier oil pipe likely to go if dollars flow
The gentle, genial man behind the Wilderness Act
Howard Zahniser, although lesser known than Bob Marshall or John Muir, was an unlikely and humble champion of wilderness who rallied the nation behind the Wilderness Act of 1964. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/11.18/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inJune 29, 1979: Roosevelt led charge for conservation
Roosevelt led charge for conservation
Rarely in the history of the country has there been a relationship as close and as symbiotic — and as effective for conservation — as existed between President Teddy Roosevelt and Gifford Pinchot, the first chief of the newly formed U.S. Forest Service. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/11.13/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inMay 18, 1979: The nation's hottest spot for cheap solar homes
MacKaye’s reinvasion of nature galvanized conservation forces
Benton MacKaye’s vision of regional planning and advocacy for the Appalachian Trail set in motion forces of conservation that would later affect the public lands of the West. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/11.10/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inApril 20, 1979: Feds eye West for radioactive garbage dump
Frederick Law Olmsted, ‘playground pioneer’
Frederick Law Olmsted offered the nation a vision of what it might be — a land of humane cities surrounded by the sweeps of national parks and forests. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/11.8/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inMarch 9, 1979: States ponder: who should pay to keep air clean?
Bob Marshall, last of the radical bureaucrats
Uniquely talented and well connected — and known to hike 70 miles in a day — Bob Marshall became the pivot on which the country turned toward a firm wilderness commitment. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/11.5/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inFebruary 9, 1979: Colorado donors fear nongame double-cross
After Silent Spring, the issue became life itself
A reflection on the life of Rachel Carson and the impact of her groundbreaking book, Silent Spring, on the nation’s emergent environmental consciousness. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/11.3/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inDecember 29, 1978: BLM catches flak for wilderness inventory
John o’ Birds tempered industrialists
John Burroughs, a student of Walt Whitman and a companion to industrialist Henry Ford, may have had a spotty record of activism, but his part in protecting the nature he loved was far greater than he himself imagined. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/10.25/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inDecember 1, 1978: TVA to be first at cleaning up old uranium site
Stout-hearted Hornaday waged a war for wildlife
The forerunner of the militant environmentalism of the 1960s and 1970s was William T. Hornaday, a man who had been dead and largely ignored for 30 years — a man not wholly admired for making fellow conservation leaders blush by his overzealous and often unjust attacks. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/10.23/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inOctober 6, 1978: Merson flaunts environmental bias
Schurz preached conservation to a profligate nation
During his tenure as Secretary of the Interior Department, at a time when settlers simply took what they wanted from public lands, Carl Schurz pushed to put into practice the conservation ethic developed by George Perkins Marsh and others. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/10.19/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inAugust 25, 1978: Congress, Carter lock horns on water projects
An observer who inspired reformers
George Perkins Marsh’s seminal book Man and Nature would be his lasting contribution, but it was only a sideline to his lifelong curiosity over man’s role in nature’s changes. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/10.16/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inJanuary 27, 1978: Defenders of nature in the nation's highest court
Defenders of nature in the nation’s highest court
William O. Douglas has articulated one of the most progressive environmental concepts of recent times: that the natural world should have legal rights. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/10.2/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E