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Posted inMay 30, 2016: Trial by Fire
Bears Ears, Lead’s big unknown, Hike like a girl
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Posted inMay 16, 2016: Grizzly Face-Off
Opiates on the rise; Northwest tribal members fight disenrollment; ‘Best idea?’
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Posted inMarch 21, 2016: Making Sense of Malheur
Clean Power jolt, East Coast meddling and shrinking wetlands
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Posted inFebruary 22, 2016: Fractured
A strong Western snowpack, sexual harassment in the Grand Canyon and leaky oil and gas production
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Posted inFebruary 2, 2016: Sagebrush Insurgency
Obama moves on coal and readers respond to Sagebrush coverage.
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Posted inArticles
Forty years of Sagebrush Rebellion
The Oregon occupation, the 2014 Bundy standoff and many other stories are all related to a long-simmering movement.
Posted inArticles
Which stories held your attention this year?
From the Animas to Washington wildfire, here are the stories that our readers spent most time on in 2015.
Posted inNovember 23, 2015: Water Hustle
High Country News: The reopening
The third in a series celebrating our 45th anniversary.
Posted inAugust 17, 2015: Little Big Bird
The Endangered Species Act’s biggest experiment
Will an unprecedented collaborative effort and lots of tax dollars be enough to finally save sage grouse?
Posted inOctober 13, 2014: Charles Bowden's Fury
Charles Bowden’s Fury
The Southwest loses its strongest voice.
Posted inJune 22, 1973: The crisis in energy: stampede corralled
My neighbor is an addict
No, he’s not addicted to drugs, good whiskey, or even bad women. He is addicted to the gasoline engine and the various vehicles and devices to which it has been adapted. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/5.13/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inOctober 26, 1973: Black clouds gather
Superb wilderness considered
The Forest Service will hold hearings on management proposals for the primitive areas that border Idaho’s Salmon River, a chunk of land that could become one of the largest wilderness areas in the lower 48 states. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/5.21/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inJanuary 3, 1975: Western site sought for A-wastes
N. Great Plains report: preview of disaster?
Coal development in the Northern Great Plains already seems to be progressing at a level higher than anticipated when the Northern Great Plains Resource Program completed its draft interim report last fall. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/7.1/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inAugust 1, 1975: Power plant ahead
Clif Merritt: he leads from behind
Clifton Merritt, the western regional director of the Wilderness Society, is an atypical environmental leader — not flashy or full of fire and brimstone, but good at motivating people positively. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/7.16/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inMay 21, 1976: Navajo Nation faces development
Don Redfearn, elk refuge manager
Don Redfearn manages the wintering ground for the largest elk herd in North America — the National Elk Refuge outside of Jackson Hole, Wyoming. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/8.11/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inDecember 16, 1977: Yellowcake spilled; clean up slow, disorganized
Family gaining independence with sun, wind, wood
The Ricks family in Rexburg, Idaho experiments with new technology and makes much of it themselves, including an all-electric car. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/9.24/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inJanuary 11, 1980: New kind of 'public interest' group pushes growth
Farmers to try do-it-yourself sediment clean-up
In Idaho, the Environmental Protection Agency is giving farmers a shot at regulating themselves and voluntarily applying techniques to manage soil erosion. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/12.1/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inApril 4, 1980: Debate roils over Utah's troubled waters
Fish hawks herald man’s fate
Good news about the osprey — which was almost wiped out as a species in some parts of the U.S. before the pesticide DDT was banned in 1972 — is good news about man and the environment. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/12.7/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inSeptember 4, 1981: Super-trains breed super-terminals
The strategic minerals debate
Two writers debate whether the U.S. should become more self-sufficient in its extraction of minerals critical to industry. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/13.17/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E