The success of environmentalists in protecting what’s left of the old-growth forests in the Northwest and Southwest means that logging corporations are often forced to look elsewhere. So they have looked at Colorado and southern Wyoming, where, according to a coalition of more than 15 environmental groups, the U.S. Forest Service plans in 1998 to […]
Ron Baird
Posted inNovember 24, 1997: Restoring a refuge: Cows depart, but can antelope recover?
A rancher sees red over a timber sale
Of all the timber sales currently being proposed in Colorado and southern Wyoming, the Sheep Flats timber sale on Grand Mesa has been called the worst – so bad ranchers and environmentalists have united against it. Sharon Jordan, who has been ranching with her husband in Collbran for 25 years, is rallying support among her […]
Posted inFebruary 17, 1997: No home on the range
A tragic blend of wild and domestic
“Rowdy,” born in a cage at a Texas roadside circus and sold as a wolf-hybrid pup to a 10-year-old boy in Colorado, used his mouth the way people use their hands. As he grew larger, Rowdy would drag the boy around his pen by an arm or a leg. It was all in good fun, […]
Posted inJuly 31, 1989: Nuclear plant's cover is blown
Nuclear plant’s cover is blown
On June 6, 75 agents from a joint FBI-EPA task force raided the Rocky Flats nuclear weapons plant near Denver. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/21.14/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E