The Gray Ranch stretches north from the Mexican border in the far west corner of the state to take in most of the 45-mile-long Animas Mountains and surrounding desert. Seventy-five species of mammals, more than are found in any national park or wildlife refuge, live in habitats that range from dry grasslands to a forested […]
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Posted inJune 5, 1989: Forester challenges his agency to a discussion
Forester challenges his agency to a discussion
It wasn’t until timber sales planner Jeff DeBonis was transferred to the Willamette National Forest — the biggest timber-producing national forest in the country — that what he saw made him open his mouth. 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/21.11/download-entire-issue This […]
Posted inMay 22, 1989: The charring of Wyoming
Biff! Pow! Bang! Three initiatives lose to big money
Last November, environmental activists waging underfinanced ballon initiative campaigns in South Dakota, Montana and Nebraska took beatings from well-funded experts. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/21.10/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inMay 22, 1989: The charring of Wyoming
Group says coal tax cut hurts Montana
According to a February report published by the Western Organization of Resource Councils, the new tax rates have significantly reduced state income and not produced new jobs. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/21.10/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inMay 22, 1989: The charring of Wyoming
The charring of Wyoming
In the midst of Wyoming’s energy depression, Char-Fuels of Wyoming, Inc. seemed to offer a dream come true. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/21.10/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inMay 8, 1989: Nevada fights its second nuclear war
Logging our way to economic poverty
Coos Bay, Ore., is awash in logs, but for the first time since 1936 there’s not a single plywood or lumber mill operating in the area. Instead, there are foreign-flagged ships. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/21.9/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inMay 8, 1989: Nevada fights its second nuclear war
Wyoming land for ‘sale’: only $2.68/acre
Nearly 30,000 acres of federal land in Wyoming have been sold to private owners in the last 12 years — at an average price of $2.68 an acre, federal records show. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/21.9/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inApril 24, 1989: HCN's Guide to Outdoor Education in the West
Cold fences and warm milk
At the Colorado Rocky Mountain School, “Our students become very sensitized to the whole issue of how you live your life in conjunction with a certain type of environment.” Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/21.8/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inApril 24, 1989: HCN's Guide to Outdoor Education in the West
Outdoor educators must stop playing it safe
My theories of education begin with the principle that learning derives from life, all of life, as an unending process from birth to death. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/21.8/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inApril 24, 1989: HCN's Guide to Outdoor Education in the West
Outward Bounds’ roots are in compassion and strength
Mark Udall says the Colorado school will continue to do what it always has: “teaching through and for the wilderness.” Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/21.8/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inApril 10, 1989: Drought, fire and cold ravage Yellowstone's elk
EPA to Denver: Wake up and smell the coffee!
Denver, Colorado’s giant Two Forks Dam received a crippling blow on March 24, when Environmental Protection Agency national administrator William Reilly ordered his Denver office to begin a veto of the project. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/21.7/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inApril 10, 1989: Drought, fire and cold ravage Yellowstone's elk
Drought, fire and cold ravage Yellowstone’s elk
As a harsh winter follows a summer of fire, up to one-third of Yellowstone National Park’s 21,000 northern herd elk may die, either at the hands of hunters or from starvation. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/21.7/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inApril 10, 1989: Drought, fire and cold ravage Yellowstone's elk
How dam opponents developed and refined a strategy
The battle against Two Forks Dam was fought with two strategies, one within and one outside of the EIS process. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/21.7/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inApril 10, 1989: Drought, fire and cold ravage Yellowstone's elk
Why Denver’s concrete proposal got beat
Two Forks Dam is on the verge of veto because the economic currents are flowing against it, and the political currents are following. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/21.7/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inMarch 27, 1989: In Montana: Grass-roots group may be Astroturf
Nation’s duck factories are drained away
Prairie potholes of Montana, the Dakotas, Minnesota and Iowa are the most productive ecosystems in the U.S., says a Department of Interior study. They are also the most threatened. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/21.6/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inMarch 27, 1989: In Montana: Grass-roots group may be Astroturf
The West mourns Abbey’s death
Writer Edward Abbey’s sudden death on March 14th left the nation’s environmental movement and lovers of wild and untrammeled land everywhere stunned and grieving. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/21.6/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inMarch 27, 1989: In Montana: Grass-roots group may be Astroturf
Edward Abbey: druid of the arches
The sudden death last week of Edward Abbey recalled to us this superb profile of the writer by Bruce Hamilton, who was HCN managing editor in 1976, when this story appeared. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/21.6/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inMarch 27, 1989: In Montana: Grass-roots group may be Astroturf
In Montana: Grass-roots group may be Astroturf
At first it looked like simply another battle over trees, but this particular environmental war in Montana has a political twist. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/21.6/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inMarch 13, 1989: Synthetic Fuels Revisited, Part II
If everything else fails, we may behave wisely
The West was saved from the wrath of the energy industry by the genius of a free market, even though that market was far from perfect. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/21.5/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inMarch 13, 1989: Synthetic Fuels Revisited, Part II
What did not happen on the Great Plains
The Bureau of Reclamation’s grandiose plans — laid out in the 1971 North Central Power Study — to turn parts of Montana, Wyoming and the Dakotas into an energy sacrifice area haven’t come to pass. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/21.5/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E