Given their dubious benefits, few dams are likely to stand up well in contests played on level fields. Both the environment and the economy will be better for the struggle. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/22.4/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
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Posted inFebruary 26, 1990: Is the Forest Service changing?
Is the Forest Service changing?
A former timber sale planner says “it’s all talk.” To read this article, click the “View a PDF from the original” link below, or download the entire issue: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/22.4/download-entire-issue This article appeared in the print edition of the magazine with the headline Is the Forest Service changing?.
Posted inFebruary 12, 1990: U.S. military plots vast land coups
Sheepmen told: The wolf is at the door
The gray wolf is coming back to Montana, and those who raise sheep and other livestock are going to have to learn to live with it. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/22.3/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inFebruary 12, 1990: U.S. military plots vast land coups
Utah takes aim at the Olympics, and at Colorado ski areas
The taxpayers of Utah have decided to enter one of the most demanding and expensive international competitions — the contest to host the winter Olympic Games. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/22.3/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inFebruary 12, 1990: U.S. military plots vast land coups
U.S. military plots vast land coups
If the U.S. military has its way, 3.5 million acres in the West — a vast playground for hikers, sportsmen, arrowhead-collectors, river rats and wildlife — would be converted into a make-believe war zone. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/22.3/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inJanuary 29, 1990: James McClure shakes up the Senate, and the West
Former ranger wishes he had raised hell earlier
“What I didn’t know about then was the peculiar world of bureaucracy. It thinks even nature must bend to what bureaucrats decide is best.” Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/22.2/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inJanuary 29, 1990: James McClure shakes up the Senate, and the West
You knew where James McClure stood
Even as McClure stood firm on his values, he tried to work with his adversaries, and for that reason he was effective on many issues. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/22.2/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inJanuary 29, 1990: James McClure shakes up the Senate, and the West
1989 Index
See a list of all High Country News articles published in 1989, categorized by subject. Click link to view PDF. This article appeared in the print edition of the magazine with the headline 1989 Index.
Posted inJanuary 29, 1990: James McClure shakes up the Senate, and the West
James McClure shakes up the Senate, and the West
The surprise announcement by Sen. James McClure that he will not seek a fourth term had an earthquake-like effect on the relatively stable structure of Idaho’s congressional politics. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/22.2/download-entire-issue This article appeared in the print edition of the magazine with the headline James McClure shakes up the Senate, […]
Posted inJanuary 1, 1990: The decline of the West's made-in-Washington economy continues
Colleges for Native Americans deserve more support
An exhaustive study of tribal colleges is a scathing indictment of the federal government for its failure to adequately support the nation’s 24 tribally controlled two- and four-year colleges. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/22.1/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inJanuary 1, 1990: The decline of the West's made-in-Washington economy continues
Dig shows wolves in Yellowstone area
A paleontologist has unearthed evidence suggesting wolves existed in Yellowstone National Park for hundreds of years, rebutting critics of restoring wolves who say the area was never home to the animals. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/22.1/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
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
Posted inJanuary 1, 1990: The decline of the West's made-in-Washington economy continues
The decline of the West’s made-in-Washington economy continues
What sense are we to make of the inland West’s last 10 years? And what possible futures can we imagine for the 1990s and beyond, based on our interpretation of the 1980s? Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/22.1/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inDecember 18, 1989: Poachers: Driving wild things to extinction
Oil exploration foes hope to lock up the Bridger-Teton
Critics charge that planners created a giant hole in the protection of the forest: Almost all its non-wilderness lands will be open to potential oil and gas development. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/21.24/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inDecember 18, 1989: Poachers: Driving wild things to extinction
Tribe undertakes a huge reclamation job
In 1986, Anaconda Minerals, a division of Atlantic Richfield Co., signed over to the Laguna Pueblo $43.6 million and the responsibility for reclaiming the Jackpile-Paguate uranium mines. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/21.24/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inDecember 18, 1989: Poachers: Driving wild things to extinction
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Posted inDecember 18, 1989: Poachers: Driving wild things to extinction
Poachers: Driving wild things to extinction
As habitat dwindles around the world, the Rocky Mountain West has become a stronghold for commercial poachers and illegal hunters seeking the last concentrations of trophy animals. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/21.24/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inDecember 4, 1989: The West's fouled waters, Part II: The new reclamation
The Grand Canyon is just another turbine
The Colorado River through the Grand Canyon rises and falls in lockstep with the West’s demand for electric power. Now environmentalists are asking federal power authorities to let the river off its very short leash. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/21.23/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inDecember 4, 1989: The West's fouled waters, Part II: The new reclamation
Bringing back the range
In Oregon, ranchers, academics and environmentalists are managing watersheds of small creeks with chainsaws, fire and cattle to bring those creeks back to life and save an endangered trout. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/21.23/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inDecember 4, 1989: The West's fouled waters, Part II: The new reclamation
Idaho points the way to stream quality
For a variety of reasons, Idaho is the first Western state to seriously attempt to control nonpoint source water pollution. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/21.23/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E