The Bureau of Reclamation’s grandiose plans — laid out in the 1971 North Central Power Study — to turn parts of Montana, Wyoming and the Dakotas into an energy sacrifice area haven’t come to pass. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/21.5/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Steve Hinchman
Posted inFebruary 27, 1989: Synthetic Fuels Revisited, Part I
Oil shale oozes legal decision and congressional debate
The West’s immense deposits of oil shale are estimated to hold more than 1.8 trillion barrels of oil, but so far they have proven far more valuable to lawyers and land speculators than to oil men. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/21.4/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inJanuary 3, 1989: In southern Utah: Voters reject an industrial future
Don’t waste us, say Nevada and Utah
Although the proposed Cisco toxic waste incinerator was rejected by Grand County voters, Utah still faces major decisions on toxic waste disposal. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/21.1/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inDecember 19, 1988: The West's nuclear revolt
The West’s nuclear revolt
Plagued by mistakes, accidents and incompetence, the Department of Energy’s nuclear weapons production system is grinding to a halt, and the West, alarmed by the pollution in its midst, has begun to revolt. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/20.24/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inDecember 5, 1988: Oil industry rolls over opponents
Oil industry rolls over opponents
Jackson Hole environmentalists and local government suffered two big defeats recently in the ongoing war over oil and gas leasing on Wyoming’s Bridger-Teton National Forest. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/20.23/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inAugust 1, 1988: City slickers strike it rich in South Dakota
Water marketing is becoming respectable
Water marketing is increasing because of the rising cost of water and public resistance to dams. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/20.14/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inJuly 18, 1988: Can nuclear waste be salted away?
Can nuclear waste be salted away?
All is not well with the nation’s first planned nuclear-waste dump, the Waste Isolation Pilot Project. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/20.13/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inMay 23, 1988: How do you combine birds and bombs?
The fight for rowing room in the Grand Canyon
One of the fastest growing and most lucrative sports in the West is river running, and river runners who once rafted at will now run on restricted launch dates and compete for access. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/20.10/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inApril 25, 1988: Ecotage versus infiltrage: A tale of two environmental strategies
The fine art of infiltrage
The Nature Conservancy is an anomaly in the environmental movement. It is apolitical, silent almost to the point of secrecy, friendly with corporate America, and run more like a successful business than a non-profit organization. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/20.8/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inMarch 28, 1988: Off-road vehicles and the public's land
Exxon tangles with Wyoming over taxes
Wyoming, already hard-hit by the long decline in oil and gas prices and exploration, is further strapped without the taxes it expected from Exxon’s LaBarge project. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/20.6/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inMarch 14, 1988: Montana's Clark Fork River: An industrial drain
Wyoming tribes win huge water victory
Wyoming’s Shoshone and Arapahoe Indian tribes are happily drowning in water rights following a victory over the state in the Wyoming Supreme Court. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/20.5/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inFebruary 1, 1988: Idaho's potato king proposes 100 power plants
Two western states still in collider race
Of the 11 sites proposed by nine Western states, one near Phoenix, Ariz., and another outside Denver, Colo., advanced to the Department of Energy’s list of eight finalists in the intense national competition for the $6 billion Superconducting Super Collider. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/20.2/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inDecember 7, 1987: Is Montana being (de)railroaded?
$1/pound copper stops a Utah dust storm, for the moment
Reopening the old Kennecott copper mine in Bingham Canyon outside Salt Lake City was happy news for Utah’s economy. But it is a mixed blessing for Magna, a nearby town that sits next to what is probably the world’s largest mine-tailings pond. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/19.23/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inOctober 12, 1987: The fight over Box-Death Hollow Wilderness
Watt and Hodel succeeded in turning back the clock at Interior
The war fought by the Reagan administration for the Department of Interior and the 500 million acres of public land it manages occurred in two great battles, waged by Secretary James Watt and his successor, Donald Hodel. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/19.19/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inSeptember 28, 1987: Sewage industry beats critic
Clean Water Act hasn’t done the job
Few of our waters are free of polluting discharges. There are local success stories, but many state water agencies say they are barely able to maintain water quality at 1972 levels. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/19.18/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inSeptember 28, 1987: Sewage industry beats critic
Sewage industry beats critic
For three years, Peter Maier, a renegade engineer, fought Utah’s water establishment over its water pollution-control program. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/19.18/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inSeptember 14, 1987: Beauty, isolation and cheap land bring a sect to Montana
Court ruling may ignite chain reaction in uranium industry
The nation’s ailing uranium industry is glowing with anticipation now that a federal appeals court has barred the importation of foreign uranium for enrichment in the United States. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/19.17/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inAugust 31, 1987: Range war in South Dakota
Yet another unneeded power plant starts generating
The Intermountain Power Project, the latest in a series of large power plants in the Southwest that keep California cities lighted, fired up this summer. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/19.16/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inAugust 17, 1987: Hoover Dam, 1990s version: The Superconducting Collider
Hoover Dam, 1990s version: The Superconducting Collider
To the Rocky Mountain West, the $4.4 billion atom-smashing Superconducting Super Collider represents economic development of the most desirable kind. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/19.15/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inMarch 30, 1987: The Northern Utes take on Utah
An Indian tribe regains its sovereign rights over 3 million acres
In a little-noticed battle, 2,500 members of the Northern Ute Indian tribe have re-established sovereignty in Utah’s Uintah Basin. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/19.6/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E