I was touched by Ana Maria Spagna’s essay, “Staying Put” (HCN, 3/03/08). As parents to two elderly-but-still-healthy, but nonetheless dependent and emotionally needy cats, we stay home quite a bit. And I’ve been hoping for a long time to hear someone in authority, or aspiring to authority, suggest to the American people that we might […]
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Posted inSeptember 9, 1977: Firms buy out opposition
Geologists document off-road vehicle damage
As President Jimmy Carter issued restrictions to off-road vehicle (ORV) use, building on the restriction issued in 1972 by then-President Richard Nixon, the Geological Society of America released a report detailing the impacts of ORV use, primarily in California. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/9.17/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inJune 17, 1977: Officials measure charms of Sweetwater Canyon
Antelope losing home on the range
A brief natural history of the pronghorn antelope and discussion of concerns about habitat loss in Wyoming’s Seven Lakes area, where energy development is accelerating. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/9.12/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inJuly 2, 1976: San Luis Valley shows rural ingenuity
Dams take their toll
Each successive dam that has been built in the Columbia River and its tributaries has posed new problems for the salmon and steelhead that return to the streams each year to spawn. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/8.14/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E