The West is empty, but it’s not rural. In fact, it is the most urban of all regions, with most of its population living in a few large metropolitan areas. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/20.17/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
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Posted inSeptember 12, 1988: The Reopening of the Western Frontier, Part 1
Good fences make good calluses
To an economist, this is a subversive piece because it talks about the meaning of work, rather than about the price of labor and material. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/20.17/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inAugust 29, 1988: Backhoe roots around in Indian graves
Idaho nuclear lab faces massive cleanup
The Department of Energy predicts it will take 20 years to remove the haphazardly dumped material that has already contaminated the Snake River Plain Aquifer with toxic organic chemicals and has leaked plutonium into deep sediments below the site. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/20.16/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inAugust 29, 1988: Backhoe roots around in Indian graves
Backhoe roots around in Indian graves
After nearly a century of neglect and vandalism, an area called Fourmile Ruin near Taylor, Ariz., is being excavated, not in a search for information about its original inhabitants but for its valuable pottery. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/20.16/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inAugust 29, 1988: Backhoe roots around in Indian graves
Save the forests: Let them burn
There is no getting around this ecological fact of life: Within nearly all forest communities of the Rocky Mountains, fires are essential form maintaining a healthy ecosystem. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/20.16/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inAugust 15, 1988: Growing up among the ruins in Blanding, Utah
Hikers versus telescopes versus squirrels
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service releases its Biological Opinion on the effects of telescopes on the Mount Graham red squirrel, an endangered species. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/20.15/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inAugust 15, 1988: Growing up among the ruins in Blanding, Utah
Growing up among the ruins in Blanding, Utah
How do you explain what it is like to be able to walk five miles in any direction from town and find a rubble mound or masonry ruin? Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/20.15/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inAugust 1, 1988: City slickers strike it rich in South Dakota
Rangers are dangerous: Do not annoy or feed them
This is a practical survival guide to the national parks, with down-to-earth advice on how to co-exist with park rangers. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/20.14/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inAugust 1, 1988: City slickers strike it rich in South Dakota
Water marketing is becoming respectable
Water marketing is increasing because of the rising cost of water and public resistance to dams. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/20.14/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inAugust 1, 1988: City slickers strike it rich in South Dakota
City slickers strike it rich in South Dakota
A plan to invigorate the state’s economy by taking sewage ash from the Twin Cities backfires. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/20.14/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inJuly 18, 1988: Can nuclear waste be salted away?
O’Toole is the Adam Smith of forest economics
O’Toole has done all of us, including the Forest Service, a great favor. His genius and hard work have shown us that the national forests are governed by a welter of laws whose purpose and workings are exactly the same as those of the 1872 Mining Law. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/20.13/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inJuly 18, 1988: Can nuclear waste be salted away?
Can nuclear waste be salted away?
All is not well with the nation’s first planned nuclear-waste dump, the Waste Isolation Pilot Project. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/20.13/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inJuly 18, 1988: Can nuclear waste be salted away?
Rhythms of the forest
We need to expand our view of time, give natural events more space and look for the heartbeats that keep it all running. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/20.13/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inJune 20, 1988: Parks are increasingly vulnerable
Wyoming elk antlers head for the Orient
During its 20-year history, the annual Boy Scout Elk Antler Auction, held each spring in Jackson, Wyo., has slowly become dominated by antler traders from the Orient who export the horns to Korea and transform them into wafer-sized aphrodisiacs or medicinal teas. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/20.12/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inJune 20, 1988: Parks are increasingly vulnerable
Will Wyoming’s Clark Fork remain wild?
Proposals to designate the river as “wild and scenic” run into lingering proposals for dams. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/20.12/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inJune 20, 1988: Parks are increasingly vulnerable
Parks are increasingly vulnerable
Like lines drawn in the sand, the borders of America’s national parks have not prevented the crowding and shoving of neighboring public and private landowners. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/20.12/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inJune 6, 1988: Will the Crow Tribe dribble away $29 million in coal tax money?
Ranchers may be losing the war of the myths
The traditional view of the West and its wild rangeland is changing. No longer are conservationists and environmentalists a fringe interest group. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/20.11/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inJune 6, 1988: Will the Crow Tribe dribble away $29 million in coal tax money?
The U.S. has spent a century chiseling away Crow land
The Crow have been one of the more flexible tribes in adapting to the ways of the dominant culture. But tribal leaders fear their easygoing ways may cost Crow children their ancestral ground. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/20.11/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inJune 6, 1988: Will the Crow Tribe dribble away $29 million in coal tax money?
Will the Crow Tribe dribble away $29 million in coal tax money?
A ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court opens up an old account and allows the tribe to set its own coal tax rates. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/20.11/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inMay 23, 1988: How do you combine birds and bombs?
Phoenix and LA cast long shadows
Petrified Forest-Painted Desert National Park in northeastern Arizona is about 200 miles and a mountain range away from Phoenix, Ariz. But Phoenix, with help from even more distant Los Angeles, is the primary cause of air pollution at the park. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/20.10/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E