Ditch riders on Wyoming’s Wind River Reservation work with an aged, deteriorated system, very rough measuring means, and farmers who are quick to assume that they are being shorted. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/18.20/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
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Posted inOctober 27, 1986: The Missouri River: In Search of Destiny
The Missouri River: Developed, but for what?
America can’t keep its hands off its rivers. In the Columbia and Colorado basins, the damming and diverting has produced new economic bases, enormous amounts of irrigated desert lands and green cities in what was desert. But the transformation of the long, wide, muddy Missouri has had little effect on the region. Download entire issue […]
Posted inOctober 27, 1986: The Missouri River: In Search of Destiny
‘The most useless river there is’
Today, the Missouri River has been transformed, but residents of the northern plains still struggle with the question of how to use its water. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/18.20/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inOctober 13, 1986: The Columbia River: An Age of Reform
Salmon: Continuity for a culture
Although history has driven a wedge between the people of Washington’s Warm Springs Reservation and their ancestral home, the Columbia River still flows through their lives in significant ways. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/18.19/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inOctober 13, 1986: The Columbia River: An Age of Reform
Showing the West the way
The Northwest Power Planning Council balances the giant, pro-kilowatt Bonneville Power Administration, and may serve as a model for the West in its search for a regional way to deal with resource questions now dominated by the federal government. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/18.19/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inOctober 13, 1986: The Columbia River: An Age of Reform
The chainsaw massacre
High mountain-streams don’t have dams, but they do have loggers, and the mud spawned by roading and logging in Idaho can be as deadly to salmon reproduction as the highest concrete dam. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/18.19/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inOctober 13, 1986: The Columbia River: An Age of Reform
The dammed Columbia
The author describes the natural history of the region, and then tells how the river has been reworked to provide kilowatts, acre-feet, a route for barges into Idaho and other goods of the modern age. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/18.19/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inOctober 13, 1986: The Columbia River: An Age of Reform
The stuff of moral tales
Will just enough be done — by increasing the number of fish hatcheries, by limiting logging, and by rationing the fishtake — to keep the salmon runs marginally alive? Or will more far-reaching steps be taken to bring back the spirit, as well as the fish, of the good old days? Download entire issue to […]
Posted inOctober 13, 1986: The Columbia River: An Age of Reform
A great loneliness of the spirit
The authors follow a young salmon, or smolt, from its spawning place in the high country downstream, past innumerable physical and bureaucratic barriers, to the ocean. (To read the full text, click on the “View a PDF from the original” link below, or download a PDF of the entire issue: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/18.19/download-entire-issue) This article appeared in […]
Posted inSeptember 29, 1986: Western Water Made Simple
The Corps adapts, the Bureau founders
The Army Corps of Engineers, with its national constituency, appears to have found a strategy for survival. The Bureau of Reclamation, with its 17-state Western constituency, may be on its way to being outdated. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/18.18/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inSeptember 29, 1986: Western Water Made Simple
Western water made simple
Western water once existed in a protected world unto itself, made up of complex laws and regulations, tight political alliances, bureaucracies and massive federal subsidies. But now it is subject to real world forces, making it understandable. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/18.18/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inSeptember 29, 1986: Western Water Made Simple
When water kingdoms clash
A water deal between California’s Imperial Irrigation District and the Metropolitan Water District was to bring water marketing of age. Instead, it has revealed the pitfalls that lie in the path of water marketing. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/18.18/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inSeptember 15, 1986: Two views of the grizzly
Yet another plan for the Little Bighorn
Since 1979, the Little Bighorn River and its Dry Fork tributary have been the center of a debate between dam proponents and preservationists. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/18.17/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inSeptember 15, 1986: Two views of the grizzly
Edward Abbey is an optimist
“The world is older, bigger and more interesting than we are. Growth is the enemy. Every organism grows to optimum space, then stops.” If it doesn’t, he says, it’s a freak, which means our overblown and overdone technological civilization is headed for a great explosion, followed by collapse. “That’s why I’m an optimist.” Download entire […]
Posted inSeptember 15, 1986: Two views of the grizzly
Two views of the grizzly
As grizzly bears cause trouble for ranchers near Choteau, Mont., a father and son see the issue differently. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/18.17/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inSeptember 1, 1986: Ski area proposal goes smash
Canyon flights attract a comment blitz
A Grand Canyon National Park superintendent spent much of this summer sifting advice from the public on how to reduce noise from airplanes and helicopters flying in the 1,900-square mile park. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/18.16/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inSeptember 1, 1986: Ski area proposal goes smash
Ski area proposal goes smash
The collapse of the Wolf Creek Pass ski resort snares 80 partnerships, 800 investors, $65 million in partnership capital and $170 million in real estate. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/18.16/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inSeptember 1, 1986: Ski area proposal goes smash
The next time your radiator boils over, make soup
If your car is as hot as an oven, use it for one. Give a whirl to the newest summer craze — car cookery. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/18.16/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inAugust 18, 1986: Graverobbers, agencies at work sacking an ancient culture
The adaptable coyote comes in three temperaments
I’ve come to identify coyotes by the moods they’re in when I see them or by the “lifestyles” they seem to have. First is the hair-trigger-what-the-hell-was-that coyote. Next is the don’t-bother-me-I’m-busy coyote and last is the “sellout,” or as I prefer, the let’s-make-the-best-of-a-good-thing coyote. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/18.15/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inAugust 18, 1986: Graverobbers, agencies at work sacking an ancient culture
Uranium mining closes in on Grand Canyon
Energy Fuels Nuclear has filed two new proposals for mining in Cataract (Havasu) Canyon. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/18.15/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E