It’s an awful job, but somebody has to do it – register an afterthought to Kathie Durbin’s story on the Hart Mountain National Antelope Refuge, “Cows depart, but can antelope recover?” (HCN, 11/24/97). I have no problem accepting as fact that livestock grazing wrecked the place, that cows broke the cryptogamic crust, that Eurasian cheatgrass […]
Sam Bingham
Posted inNovember 11, 1996: Cease-fire called on the Animas-La Plata front
The Last Ranch: The truth is stranger than the book
In 1992, I followed a year in the life of a third-generation ranch family named Whitten in the San Luis Valley of southern Colorado. I was exploring an idea. I supposed that a fresh understanding of nature might save the world from becoming desert. The impetus came from a long association with the ideas of […]
Posted inMarch 12, 1990: Bucking tradition
Barbarians within agriculture’s gates
Do we need a nationwide policy to fight the war against noxious weeds? Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/22.5/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inApril 27, 1987: Two views of Allan Savory
Allan Savory: Creator of a Socratic approach to land management
Savory’s schematic rendition of holistic analysis can be used to make management decisions, analyze a policy, diagnose a problem or define a research project. Everything depends on the functioning of four interrelated processes that define the ecosystem. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/19.8/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inJuly 7, 1986: Taking on the farm banks
The farm banks cut and run
An historic policy change at the Production Credit Associations in recent years came from the highest levels of its bureaucracy, and dictated that the credit system would be saved, whatever the costs to individual farm families. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/18.13/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inJune 9, 1986: The dismal science grabs agriculture by the throat
The land has got to cash flow
Breakdown on the ever-expanding fringes of the farm economy has made long-fixed attitudes and policies about rural America negotiable. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/18.11/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E