Development of a mine under the 1872 Mining Law is radically different from development of any other public resource. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/22.11/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
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A tenacious law may lose its grip
The fight over mining in the West may tum out to be one of the bloodiest environmental battles of the 20th century. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/22.11/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Dying Nevada town bets its last bucks on a speculative power plant
In Wells, Nevada, local residents would gladly trade the fresh air for jobs. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/22.10/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
North Dakota: a Garrison junkie
The Garrison project may be a greater disaster than the Dust Bowl. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/22.10/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Will Las Vegas drain rural Nevada?
The city’s boom could come to a screeching halt in as little as four years unless Las Vegas gets more water. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/22.10/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Ex-BLMer says industry prevents resource management
“I believe proper grazing management can allow recovery and still maintain the land. But before grazing can be sustainable, the BLM must be reformed.” Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/22.9/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Ranchers’ hold on agency revealed
When his Forest Service superiors told him he had so angered the ranchers he was working with that he should apply for a transfer, District Ranger Don Oman refused. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/22.9/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
The public range begins to green up
Grazing reform appears to be a sustainable and unstoppable movement to recover lost land. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/22.9/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Senate’s new air bill would further dirty the West’s air
The 1990 Senate compromise bill would increase pollution 23 percent throughout the West. It would also weaken the power of the federal government to protect the air over pristine areas. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/22.8/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
How the outdoors got into the West’s schools
In 1970, when Earth Day was born and Rudy Schafer was working for the California Department of Education, he managed the state’s environmental education program but wasn’t content to leave it at that. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/22.8/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Forestry newspeak prevents us from seeing the ecosystem
Terminology has a big influence on our way of thinking and the way we perceive issues. It also affects the way we allot funds for public lands. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/22.7/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
The most complex ecosystems on earth
Scientists have discovered that old-growth forests, far from being biological deserts, are among the most complex ecosystems on earth, habitat for dozens of animals that might not be able to survive anywhere else. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/22.7/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Ancient forest protection: Groups plot political strategies
As the effects of last year’s congressional compromise trickle down to the ground and the ancient forests of the Northwest continue to fall as fast as ever, conservationists and politicians have been wrestling to draft new legislation that would save the remaining trees. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/22.7/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Old-growth forests fight global warming
Three Northwest forest researchers conclude that converting old-growth to young forests won’t slow down global warming. Their results may help settle one question in the Northwest’s intense debate over its remaining ancient forests. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/22.6/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Is there room for everyone?
The tranquil snowscape of Yellowstone has become a symbol of efforts to expand commercial development in the national parks. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/22.6/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
The decayed core at the center of rural life
A rural electrification convention symbolizes the forces that vigorous, progressive elements must overcome if the countryside is to move forward again. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/22.6/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Barbarians within agriculture’s gates
Do we need a nationwide policy to fight the war against noxious weeds? Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/22.5/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Call 1-800-SABOTAGE
Ranchers in Nevada stand guard against vandalism from radical environmentalists. Has the confrontation hurt or helped the push for better land stewardship? Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/22.5/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
The West’s real cattle heritage: Damaged land and political paralysis
It has taken more than a century for livestock grazing on public lands in the West to reach maximum pain and minimum profit. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/22.5/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
The West’s time capsules
Livestock have obliterated almost all of the West’s original grasslands. But here and there, a few patches of native range survive. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/22.5/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
