As Big Ag flourishes, this massive waterway suffers.
Richard Manning
Posted inMarch 17, 1997: Working the Watershed
Working the Watershed
Washington’s Willapa Alliance melds science, economic development and plenty of time to plot the restoration of a battered coastal ecosystem
Posted inMarch 17, 1997: Working the Watershed
Defender of fish
Note: This article is a sidebar to this issue’s feature story. Les Clark has fished the lower Columbia and Willapa Bay for 52 years. He is a third-generation gillnetter and his sons are the fourth. Les Clark: “When we first moved here, paper mills dumped everything in the Columbia River. It finally got so bad […]
Posted inMarch 17, 1997: Working the Watershed
An optimistic man
Note: This article is a sidebar to this issue’s feature story. Spencer Beebe is the founder of the nonprofit Ecotrust, based in Portland, Oregon. Spencer Beebe: “To think that we can destroy the planet is a kind of backhanded pride. It reflects an inflated sense of our own importance and a contempt for the power […]
Posted inJuly 25, 1994: 'Unranchers' reach for West's state lands
How love of gold moves mountains
Through the centuries of our mythology, gold has gathered such a mystical sheen that we forget it is just another commodity. This is a critical oversight, especially for those people fighting gold mines in the West. We oppose gold mines and proposals for mines through the usual government channels, meager as these might be with […]
Posted inDecember 28, 1992: Audubon's 'ranch' ungrazed, but used
Forest Service is trying to turn over a new leaf, but critics have doubts
The U.S. Forest Service believes there is a clear patch of land in Montana that affords a clear view of the future’s enlightened forestry. The problem is, the agency’s own past sometimes sullies the view. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/24.24/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inSeptember 23, 1991: How a Montana reporter wrote what he saw ... and lost his job
How a Montana reporter wrote what he saw … and lost his job
Missoulian reporter Richard Manning told how the logging business in Montana had taken a brutal turn that would punish the land, the local economy, and the small-time loggers and mills. (To read the full text, click on the “View a PDF from the original” link below, or download a PDF of the entire issue: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/23.17/download-entire-issue.) This […]
Posted inJuly 2, 1990: Sagebrush Rebels try to call the shots in Nevada
Union and Montana environmentalists reach agreement on what should be wilderness
As a result of four months of negotiations between unionized lumber mill workers and a coalition of conservationists, separate accords have emerged drawing wilderness boundaries for two of the state’s 10 national forests. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/22.13/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inMarch 27, 1989: In Montana: Grass-roots group may be Astroturf
In Montana: Grass-roots group may be Astroturf
At first it looked like simply another battle over trees, but this particular environmental war in Montana has a political twist. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/21.6/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E