In the 1970s, all that stood between the people of southeastern Utah and their dreams of high paying jobs in the mineral and energy industries, was the federal government and its wilderness study areas. In this first of a four-part series, Ray Wheeler describes how southeastern Utah routed the feds and, for all practical purposes, […]
Raymond Wheeler
Posted inMarch 3, 1986: In defense of running cows on the public's land
Utah: A heavy EIS but little wilderness
After studying nearly 22 million acres of the most rugged, remote and spectacular landscape in the nation, Bureau of Land Management found 1.9 million acres worth preserving as wilderness. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/18.4/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E