Most people remember Charles Lindbergh for his flight across the Atlantic. They are less likely to recall that he also wrote The Spirit of St. Louis, winner of the Pulitizer Prize for autobiography in 1954. Most people know Antoine de Saint-Exupéry for his children’s classic, The Little Prince. They are less likely to remember that […]
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Posted inMarch 1, 1999: Working the land back to health
The ranch restored: An overworked land comes back to life
Note: in three sidebar articles accompanying this feature story, environmentalist Kathleen Simpson Myron, environmentalist Rose Strickland, and retired BLM range conservationist Earl McKinney give their perspectives in their own words. McDERMITT, Nev. – The Trout Creek Mountains of southeastern Oregon will never rank among America’s most magnificent peaks. Although beautiful in their way, the Trout […]
Posted inMarch 1, 1999: Working the land back to health
‘I was mocked and set up’
Note: This article is a sidebar to this issue’s feature story. Kathleen (Kathi) Simpson Myron, an artist from Canby, Ore., joined the Trout Creek Mountain Working Group members in 1988 as a representative of Oregon Trout. She left the group in 1994. “I got along fine until I became what they called a pushy broad […]
Posted inMarch 1, 1999: Working the land back to health
‘I will try anything’
Note: This article is a sidebar to this issue’s feature story. Rose Strickland is a member of the Public Lands Committee of the Sierra Club and co-author of How Not to be Cowed – Livestock Grazing on the Public Lands: An Owner’s Manual. She is not an official member of the Trout Creek Mountain Working […]
Posted inMarch 1, 1999: Working the land back to health
‘The concept is simple’
Note: This article is a sidebar to this issue’s feature story. Earl McKinney, a retired BLM range conservationist, was an early participant in the Trout Creek Mountain Working Group. He is based in Carson City, Nev. “Riparian areas are super simple to recover. All you have to do is let them regrow a little bit. […]
Posted inJune 22, 1998: Western water: Why it's dirty and in short supply
Western water: Why it’s dirty and in short supply
Note: in two sidebar articles that accompany this feature story, rancher Patrick O’Toole and chair of the Western Water Policy Review Advisory Commission Denise Fort share their views in their own words. First, you notice the coyotes. Then shadows swirl near shore – a group of razorback suckers, an endangered species, moving in to spawn. […]
Posted inJune 22, 1998: Western water: Why it's dirty and in short supply
This report could destroy irrigated agriculture
Note: This article is a sidebar to this issue’s feature story. Patrick O’Toole raises cattle, sheep and hay near the Wyoming-Colorado border. He serves on the Wyoming Open Space Committee, the Colorado River Coordinating Council and is a director of the Family Farm Alliance. The lone agricultural member of the Western Water Policy Review Advisory […]
Posted inJune 22, 1998: Western water: Why it's dirty and in short supply
We wanted to democratize Western water
Note: This article is a sidebar to this issue’s feature story. Denise Fort, a faculty member at the University of New Mexico’s School of Law, chairs the Western Water Policy Review Advisory Commission. She is a former director of New Mexico’s Environmental Improvement Division and is a member of the National Research Council’s Water, Science […]
Posted inFebruary 2, 1998: Looking at dams in a new way
Looking at dams in a new way
We float rivers for fun. For adventure. For discovery. We do it for the magic around the bend. The smooth hiss of water and stone. A canyon wren concerto. The slap of a beaver’s tail. The solitary stare of a bighorn sheep. Last spring, I stumbled across something unusual on the Colorado River in the […]
Posted inMarch 6, 1995: The fires next time
How the West’s asbestos fires were turned into tinderboxes
BOISE, Idaho – Sluggish all morning, the Rabbit Creek fire swept up the North Fork of the Boise River with a fury Kevin Brown will not soon forget. “It is very difficult to put into words,” said Brown, who was monitoring air traffic from a helicopter over the wildfire last September. “Awesome seems understated,” he […]
Posted inMarch 6, 1995: The fires next time
After the fire comes the real devastation
Note: This article is a sidebar to this issue’s feature story, How the West’s asbestos fires were turned into tinderboxes. BOISE – John Thornton, a hydrologist for the Boise National Forest, remembers staring out of the helicopter in disbelief. Below him, a major wildfire was raging, devouring trees and brush. But what caught his eye […]
Posted inAugust 8, 1994: Glitz and growth take a major hit in Santa Fe
FBI was out to get freethinking DeVoto
Nearly 40 years after his death, Bernard DeVoto is remembered as a brilliant historian, pungent social critic and one of the West’s earliest and most outspoken conservationists. The Federal Bureau of Investigation, however, knew him differently. To the FBI, DeVoto was an “intellectual revolutionary,” “the son of a fallen away priest of the Roman Catholic […]
Posted inJanuary 1, 1990: The decline of the West's made-in-Washington economy continues
Edward Abbey got the FBI interested in literature
According to documents made available through Freedom of Information Act, the FBI kept track of Abbey’s writing and activities for 20 years, trying to determine whether the controversial author was a security threat to the United States. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/22.1/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E