When a persistent real estate agent arranged for Alonzo and Robert Rogers to sell 1,200 acres of the southwestern South Dakota ranch, the bachelor brothers had no idea their land was part of a plan to build a massive garbage dump serving faraway cities. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/22.17/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
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Posted inSeptember 10, 1990: Dumps 'R' Us
Strange tales along the Powwow Highway
We are dying today in droves while liberal Americans profit in the billion-dollar-a-year New Age industry, which sells overpriced and artificial Thunderbird shields and sexy doeskin dresses to bored, rich cosmopolitans. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/22.17/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inAugust 27, 1990: Waterless in Wind River?
Japan’s Daishowa mum on dam removal in Olympic park
Daishowa Paper Co. stalls effort to remove two hydroelectric dams on Washington’s Elwha River. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/22.16/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inAugust 27, 1990: Waterless in Wind River?
Our living desert is becoming a new Sahara
The sad fact is that trespass by cows is a constant on Western public lands. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/22.16/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inAugust 27, 1990: Waterless in Wind River?
Waterless in Wind River?
Midvale, Wyo., farmers worry after the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed last year that the tribes of the Wind River Reservation have rights to over 500,000 acre-feet of water. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/22.16/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inAugust 22, 1980: Focus on the sun
Solar center’s bright future now clouded
The Solar Energy Research Institute’s connections with the federal Department of Defense have the private-sector solar industry doubting the impact the institute will have on spreading solar technology. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/12.16/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inJuly 30, 1990: Revolution at Utah's grassroots
Revolution at Utah’s grassroots: Navajos seek political power
The Navajos, like most reservation Indians, have historically been excluded from county politics by a mix of subtle and not-so-subtle barriers. But now they are creating a new political force. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/22.15/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inJuly 30, 1990: Revolution at Utah's grassroots
We must stop devouring the West
We are blessed with an astounding base of natural assets: clean air, good water, open land and the many sturdy folk who live here. But instead of feeding, repairing and taking care of these natural assets, we have been running them down in a way that would destroy any automobile or business in very little […]
Posted inJuly 30, 1990: Revolution at Utah's grassroots
Hells Canyon: Should it be a park?
Members of a revived council want to run the Forest Service out and bring in the National Park Service to administer a Hells Canyon National Park and Preserve. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/22.15/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inJuly 16, 1990: Wolves make a comeback in Montana
Bush team quick-kicks the spotted owl issue to Congress
Federal officials recently announced plans to dilute the Endangered Species Act and continue logging the owl’s habitat. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/22.14/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inJuly 16, 1990: Wolves make a comeback in Montana
Present policy burns trees and money
An array of changes are urgently needed to ensure that the Forest Service is better prepared, that it is more adaptable to variable and unusual conditions, and that large sums of money are not squandered when fighting wildfire. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/22.14/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inJuly 16, 1990: Wolves make a comeback in Montana
Wolves make a comeback in Montana
While politicians, scientists and bureaucrats argue over reintroduction of the wolf to the western United States, the animals have moved south into Montana to occupy long-vacant habitat. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/22.14/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inJuly 2, 1990: Sagebrush Rebels try to call the shots in Nevada
Sitting out the Greed Decade in Wyoming
The workers who came to Wyoming in the 1970s to make unmentionable riches throwing chain on oil rigs are now working at minimum wage “service” jobs in the toadying tourism industry. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/22.13/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inJuly 2, 1990: Sagebrush Rebels try to call the shots in Nevada
Union and Montana environmentalists reach agreement on what should be wilderness
As a result of four months of negotiations between unionized lumber mill workers and a coalition of conservationists, separate accords have emerged drawing wilderness boundaries for two of the state’s 10 national forests. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/22.13/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inJuly 2, 1990: Sagebrush Rebels try to call the shots in Nevada
Sagebrush Rebels try to call the shots in Nevada
A corner of Nevada is the last stronghold of the Sagebrush Rebels — the group that sought to transfer public land into private hands in the late 1970s and early 1980s. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/22.13/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inJune 18, 1990: Uranium has decimated Navajo miners
Toxics from Canada pile up in U.S. reservoir
Lake Roosevelt was largely unnoticed until 1986, when the Washington Department of Ecology first studied heavy metals contamination in the lake. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/22.12/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inJune 18, 1990: Uranium has decimated Navajo miners
Yvon Chouinard: A mutinous captain of industry
“I never wanted to be a businessman,” says the owner of Patagonia clothing and gear company, “because I thought businessmen were real greaseballs. In fact I still do.” Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/22.12/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inJune 18, 1990: Uranium has decimated Navajo miners
Uranium has decimated Navajo miners
In a Navajo community of 1,000 just west of the New Mexico state line, many families are trying to cope with the loss of loved ones and the sight of numerous others slowly dying from lung cancer. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/22.12/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inJune 4, 1990: The stake in the West's heart
A glossary of mining terms
Definitions of “reclamation,” “bonding,” and “sensitive areas.” Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/22.11/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inJune 4, 1990: The stake in the West's heart
A new gold rush hits the West
The new American gold rush is after a different kind of deposit than the veins, nuggets and flakes which tantalized the imagination of the forty-niners. These days the hunt is for low-grade, ore bodies with microscopic gold. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/22.11/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E