With the five-year drought worsening in the Colorado River Basin, two Western icons are emerging like sore thumbs aching for attention. One is the casino-hotels of Las Vegas, their resplendent fountains and the waterways on which gondolas float and water spurts in time to music. The other is the graceful arch of Glen Canyon Dam […]
Philip Fradkin
Posted inOctober 15, 1971: Mike Frome 'expurgated'
Wilderness exists in name only
There are 53 million acres of federal lands which qualify as potential wilderness areas under the 1964 Wilderness Act. But so far, with only three years left for federal agencies to propose wilderness under the act, only 10.1 million acres have been set aside as wilderness. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/3.20/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E