To discredit a person’s testimony before a committee of the Idaho House of Representatives, all one need do is prove that the witness was born in some other state. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/14.8/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
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Posted inApril 16, 1982: The Big Secret: Highly toxic pesticides in the Rockies
The Big Secret: Highly toxic pesticides in the Rockies
Although the use of toxic chemicals for agriculture in the Rocky Mountains is a public health concern, it is not a matter of public record. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/14.8/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inJune 25, 1982: A $40 million pork barrel
Light rail commuting: Beating the rush in Denver
The Denver metro’s transportation planners are banking on light rail to fix problems of traffic congestion and air pollution as the city continues to grow. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/14.13/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inMay 26, 1986: The fate of the grizzly
At Capitol Reef, the Mormons made the desert fruitful
The largest orchard in any national park is surrounded by some of the driest desert in southern Utah. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/18.10/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inDecember 10, 2007: Rebels with a Lost Cause
Jim Detterline to the rescue
NAME Jim Detterline OCCUPATION Rocky Mountain National Park ranger NUMBER OF TIMES STRUCK BY LIGHTNING Three MOST TURTLES EVER OWNED AT ONE TIME 80 (When Detterline was a kid) DEGREES Master’s in vertebrate zoology, Ph.D. in invertebrate zoology HOBBIES Plays the trumpet Jim Detterline is a man of average size, lean, but not small. Still, […]
Posted inMarch 5, 2007: Wish You Weren’t Here
Getting the lead out
A proposed ban on lead ammo in California could save condors
Posted inJune 12, 2006: The Perpetual Growth Machine
The Perpetual Growth Machine
Arizona sets out to disprove the notion that someday the West will run out of water
Posted inJune 27, 2005: Reflections on a Divided Land
The Great Divide
It is 7:30 in the morning on July 24, 2004 — the day of Utah’s biggest holiday. Salt Lake City’s usually reserved downtown is bustling. Parade floats are parked haphazardly along side streets. Spectators spill out of the city’s light-rail system, lugging lawn chairs and water jugs as they scope out prime sidewalk real estate […]
Posted inNovember 8, 2004: Keepers of the Flame
Keepers of the Flame
GILA NATIONAL FOREST, New Mexico — In April 2003, a thunderstorm built over southwestern New Mexico’s Black Range. Clouds darkened the skies above soft-shouldered hills and steep canyons covered by dense thickets of juniper and piñon pine and galleries of tall ponderosa pine. Sometime around 2:00 in the afternoon, lightning struck on Boiler Peak, northwest […]
Posted inAugust 2, 2004: The Greening of the Plains
The Greening of the Plains
A conservation movement is stirring on the Great Plains, but farmers are stuck with a stark reality: It pays to plow up virgin ground
Posted inMay 26, 2003: A losing battle
Big blowups will continue, whether we like it or not
We’re spending billions to fight ‘catastrophic’ forest fires. But the big blowups will continue, whether we like it or not. For the forests, this may be good news.
Posted inApril 14, 2003: Change comes slowly to Escalante county
Change comes slowly to Escalante country
In the BLM’s showcase monument, local grudges and national politics create a nasty quagmire.
Posted inAugust 19, 2002: The Great Western Apocalypse
The Great Western Apocalypse
The drought of 2002 has left the West blistered and burnt, and scientists predict worse to come. Have we learned anything yet?
Posted inFebruary 4, 2002: Last dance for the sage grouse?
Last dance for the sage grouse?
GUNNISON, Colo. – The way to see sagebrush is not as most people do, through the windshield of a vehicle speeding toward someplace else. Slow down and get out of the car; walk in the midst of it. Then the sagebrush in the cold, dry Gunnison Valley can have a scraggly beauty. It rolls across […]
Posted inNovember 19, 2001: Bringing back the bosque
We are the Oil Tribe
I’ve been visiting drilling rigs lately. For an environmentalist, it’s an education. Rugged tattooed men, macho diesel pickups and in-your-face bumper stickers: EARTH FIRST! WE’LL DRILL THE OTHER PLANETS LATER. In a country with 210 million automobiles, only 250 rigs search for oil in America. That seems a small number until you realize that the […]
Posted inAugust 13, 2001: No refuge in the Klamath Basin
2001: No refuge in the Klamath Basin
LOWER KLAMATH NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE, Calif. – Wildlife biologist Tim Griffiths leans out his truck window, squints at the bright, scorching sun, and shakes his head with wonder. Yellow-headed blackbirds perch on slender cattails, bald eagles swoop through the sky, and white pelicans dunk their tugboat-size beaks in the shallow water. “This place is pure […]
Posted inFebruary 12, 2001: Mr. Babbitt's wild ride
Bush hits the brakes
Almost immediately after taking office, President George W. Bush slapped a freeze on Bill Clinton’s last batch of new regulations, giving the new president time to review and possibly overturn those rules. New regulations which have not yet appeared in the Federal Register have been withdrawn for review; those already published but not yet in […]
Posted inSeptember 11, 2000: Holy water
Holy water
The Catholic Church seeks to restore the Columbia River and the church’s relevance to the natural world
Posted inAugust 28, 2000: The mine that turned the Red River blue
The mine that turned the Red River blue
Activists turn the tables on the biggest, slipperiest mine in the Rio Grande watershed
Posted inOctober 26, 1998: The Oregon way
The Oregon way
Governor John Kitzhaber casts for consensus in the Northwest’s troubled waters