Animal-rights activist Wayne Pacelle has his sights set on hunting in the West. So far, he’s wounded or killed hunts for black bears in California and Colorado, grizzly bears and buffalo in Montana, and elk in Arizona. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/23.24/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
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Posted inDecember 16, 1991: Are the bison coming?
Tiny snails could affect eight dams
The Bliss Rapids snail, along with about 30 other species in the Snake River, appear to be declining due to pollution and development. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/23.23/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inDecember 16, 1991: Are the bison coming?
Death and anarchy above Tucson
A head-on. From the skid marks it looked like the Camaro had been cutting the inside of the curve, way over the double-yellow centerline … Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/23.23/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inDecember 16, 1991: Are the bison coming?
Are the bison coming?
Frank and Deborah Popper see themselves as carrying a timely, well-meant warning to the Great Plains. But most Great Plains residents see the two New Jersey academics as alarmists, and their Buffalo Commons idea as malicious. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/23.23/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inDecember 2, 1991: The public gets a chance to revamp dams built 50 years ago
A Montana forest slashes its planned timber cut
Even after Regional Forester John W. Mumma was ousted, apparently for reigning in overcutting, the 2.1 million-acre Lolo National Forest will reduce its projected timber sales by half for the next five years. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/23.22/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inDecember 2, 1991: The public gets a chance to revamp dams built 50 years ago
Water fight sinks wilderness bill
How water rights language killed Colorado’s wilderness bill (S-1029). Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/23.22/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inDecember 2, 1991: The public gets a chance to revamp dams built 50 years ago
The public gets a chance to revamp dams built 50 years ago
Native Americans are in the best position to alter the way dams are operated as developers ask the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) to renew licenses for 170 of the nation’s oldest hydropower projects. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/23.22/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inNovember 18, 1991: A passive town in Utah awaits its fate
Battered Targhee seeks a new course
For years environmentalists wrote off the Targhee National Forest as a sacrifice zone, but as the Targhee re-writes its forest plan, the area is under close scrutiny. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/23.21/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inNovember 18, 1991: A passive town in Utah awaits its fate
New fight looms over Kaiparowits
Southern Utah’s vast and unspoiled Kaiparowits Plateau is once again at the center of a battle over large-scale coal development. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/23.21/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inNovember 18, 1991: A passive town in Utah awaits its fate
A passive town in Utah awaits its fate
Overwhelmed by the current wave of tourism, federal administrators of the public land surrounding Moab say they are unprepared to handle the environmental impacts of off-trail biking, four-wheeling and unregulated camping. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/23.21/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inNovember 4, 1991: Mining law is no longer a sacred cow
Carrot-and-stick tactics are wearing down Nevada
The nuclear industry is betting nearly a million dollars that Nevadans can learn to love a nuclear waste dump. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/23.20/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inNovember 4, 1991: Mining law is no longer a sacred cow
The angrier they get you, the more they make you think
We are about 150 years into this experiment to see whether it is possible to live year-round in the Rocky Mountains. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/23.20/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inNovember 4, 1991: Mining law is no longer a sacred cow
Mining law is no longer a sacred cow
Congress could consider comprehensive reforms to the 1872 Mining Law for the first time since the Mineral Leasing Act of 1920. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/23.20/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inOctober 21, 1991: Sting uncovers eagle-killers
Eco-grazing: Shepherd follows his flock, and the seasons
Sheepman Sam Robinson says sheep have not only failed to harm the mountains near Vail, Colo., where he has grazed them for the last 11 summers, they’ve also done the ecosystem some good. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/23.19/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inOctober 21, 1991: Sting uncovers eagle-killers
Four scientists analyze ancient forests for a congressional committee
A new report looks at ecosystems and dependent species in the Pacific Northwest, including loggers. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/23.19/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inOctober 21, 1991: Sting uncovers eagle-killers
Some ranchers keep an old tradition alive
Working undercover, agents bought an array of illegal poisons, learned how to lace carcasses with them, and visited ranches where deadly baits were left for predators. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/23.19/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inOctober 7, 1991: Two say politics rules their agencies
Experts learn how man used to stick it to mammoths
Before Bob Perkins of Bozeman, Mont., applied beer, engineering and thought to the problem, archaeologists really didn’t know how early hunters used the atlatl, or throwing stick. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/23.18/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inOctober 7, 1991: Two say politics rules their agencies
Is Babbitt just funny, or is he also shrewd?
Today, Babbitt said, the main threat to the West is not aridity, but dam builders. Each new water development destroys another chunk of the West, said the man who fought for the Central Arizona Project while Arizona’s governor. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/23.18/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inOctober 7, 1991: Two say politics rules their agencies
Two say politics rules their agencies
John Mumma came alone to a packed subcommittee hearing Sept. 24 to denounce the agency that — for three decades — he put above family and friends … Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/23.18/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inSeptember 23, 1991: How a Montana reporter wrote what he saw ... and lost his job
Foes try to swamp wetlands protection
Environmentalists are calling a new Bush administration proposal the undoing of wetlands protection in the West. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/23.17/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E