“It sucks” is what an unidentified staffer for U.S. Department of Energy concluded about his agency’s choice of the Hanford Nuclear Reservation as a candidate for the nation’s first high-level nuclear waste dump.


Congress to look again at oil-shale lands

A bill to prevent further transfer of federal oil-shale lands to private hands was introduced in Congress last month, marking what its co-sponsors say is a renewed effort to end the Reagan administration’s policy of privatizing federal lands. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/19.4/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E

Ruminations on the ecology of wilderness trash

The great wilderness experience, at times, becomes a continuing obsession with inappropriately placed pop-tops, cigarette butts and Jiffy Pop tins. I am hopelessly addicted to collecting wilderness trash. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/19.4/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E

The Hanford Nuclear Reservation: Poor engineering, worse PR

“It sucks” is what an unidentified staffer for U.S. Department of Energy concluded about his agency’s choice of the Hanford Nuclear Reservation as a candidate for the nation’s first high-level nuclear waste dump. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/19.4/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E