Tom Bell

The Multiple Use and Sustained Yield Act of 1960, the Wilderness Act of 1964 and a string of court cases during the past decade have laid the groundwork for preserving the West’s wild lands — but the next few years will be a critical time of decision-making. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/5.3/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E

The coming energy crunch will cause a frenzied battle over the West’s coal, gas and oil in the name of sustaining America’s oversized appetite for energy and economic growth. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/5.1/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E

The dead eagles of Wyoming still wait for justice to be done. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/4.24/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E

A highway proposed for a scenic canyon stretch of Wyoming’s Clarks Fork of the Yellowstone River could drastically alter the canyon environment. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/4.22/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E

In the Forest Service’s ranger districts, President Richard Nixon’s order to harvest 300 million board feet of timber through thinning and salvage operations could easily be interpreted as an order to increase the cut of timber. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/4.21/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E

Earlier this year the Sierra Club won a major victory for air quality based on the Clean Air Act of 1970, but ambiguities in the ruling leave open the possibility of worsening air pollution. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/4.20/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E

The Bureau of Land Management has pleased conservationists by enacting management policies that will protect many of the natural resources of Wyoming’s Red Desert, a unique geologic area. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/4.19/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E

Nebraska Public Power District’s proposed 600-megawatt coal-fired power plant is another example of proliferating energy demands upon a land unmarked and unsullied by the march of “progress.” Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/4.17/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E

When the history of the environmental movement is written, it will be found that a small band of unpaid, unsung volunteers blazed the trail. Imbued with little more than clear vision, bulldog tenacity, and a thick skin, they have taken unpopular stands in the causes loosely termed “the environment.” (To read the full text, click on […]

As Wyoming Senator Clifford Hansen pushes legislation to construct an aqueduct system that would divert water for industrial use in the Powder River Basin in Montana and Wyoming, plans for escalating extraction of coal are coming out into public view. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/4.11/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E

The Bureau of Reclamation faces off with local opponents over a proposed dam that would inundate China Meadows, a choice spot in Utah’s Uinta Mountains. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/4.10/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E

Reynolds Metals Co. has announced a proposal to build a uranium enrichment plant near Buffalo, Wyo., that would cost at least $2.2 billion. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/4.8/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E

The Wilderness Act set a 1974 deadline for considering all remaining primitive and roadless areas for wilderness designation, and as that deadline approaches, controversy is stirring in the Rocky Mountains about how to treat those wild lands. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/4.6/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E

It has now been seven months since helicopter pilot James Vogan went before a Senate subcommittee and revealed the illegal deaths of hundreds of eagles on Herman Werners’s Wyoming ranch — what has happened to justice? Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/4.5/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E

Montana Governor Forrest Anderson effectively sabotaged that state’s air pollution program by refusing to sign the proposed implementation of federal standards. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/4.4/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E

Poisoning banned! The news burst like a bombshell over the rangelands of the West. And repercussions are still echoing from Montana to Texas. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/4.4/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E

Big game herds, hit with the harsh winter of 1971-72 and faced with steady shrinkage of winter range, continue to decline. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/4.3/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E