A federal sting stirs up Blanding, Utah, which lies in one of the richest archaeological regions in the United States. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/18.15/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
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Posted inAugust 4, 1986: Gudy Gaskill and some friends build a 480-mile trail
Real reclamation
The choice by Kennecott and Asarco to clean up their smelters early on rather than be pushed out because of pollution shows that reduced livestock and logging industries can also survive — but only if they adapt. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/18.14/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inAugust 4, 1986: Gudy Gaskill and some friends build a 480-mile trail
The West’s lakes are safer
Environmental Protection Agency’s decision to close the Phelps Dodge copper smelter in Douglas, Ariz., will reduce acid rain in mountain lakes like those in Wyoming’s Wind River Range. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/18.14/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inAugust 4, 1986: Gudy Gaskill and some friends build a 480-mile trail
Gudy Gaskill and some friends build a 480-mile trail
The Colorado Trail — a Denver to Durango mountain path for hikers, horses and mountain bikes — is being built for a pittance by volunteers after a well-funded professional effort collapsed several years ago. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/18.14/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inJuly 7, 1986: Taking on the farm banks
L-P breaks through at Union Pass
A high-altitude standoff over construction of a national forest road gave the impression to some that a Pinedale District Ranger took orders from Louisiana-Pacific rather than from his own higher-ups in the Bridger-Teton National Forest. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/18.13/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inJuly 7, 1986: Taking on the farm banks
The farm banks cut and run
An historic policy change at the Production Credit Associations in recent years came from the highest levels of its bureaucracy, and dictated that the credit system would be saved, whatever the costs to individual farm families. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/18.13/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inJuly 7, 1986: Taking on the farm banks
Taking on the farm banks
A sheep-ranching family struggles against the Production Credit Association, a bank meant to help farmers but that sometimes appears to turn on them. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/18.13/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inJune 23, 1986: Where's the market?
Bison versus lawns on Yellowston’s edge
When 64-year-old Donna Spainhower of West Yellowstone, Mont., began feeding a wayward buffalo that wandered out of Yellowstone Park last October, she may have become the only American with a pet buffalo. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/18.12/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inJune 23, 1986: Where's the market?
Ranchers ask: Where’s the market?
From roughly 1970 through 1985, the beef industry put money and research into improving productivity instead of learning the marketing techniques that would have addressed America’s changing eating habits — and now it’s in trouble. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/18.12/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inJune 23, 1986: Where's the market?
Get the public off the public lands
Back in 1986, as environmentalists rallied to push ranchers off public land, nobody could have predicted how the issue would finally be resolved. A new movement was born: the most powerful and sweeping ever seen in natural resource management. It was born with the battle cry: “Get the public off public lands.” Download entire issue […]
Posted inJune 9, 1986: The dismal science grabs agriculture by the throat
Anger, blame, depression
A hearing in March 1986 at the Colorado State Legislature almost ended in a fist fight when an attorney for the Farmers Home Administration supposedly called a farmer “boy.” Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/18.11/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inJune 9, 1986: The dismal science grabs agriculture by the throat
On playing mouse to a hungry wild cat
The lion now crouched directly in front of the truck, staring at me … Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/18.11/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inJune 9, 1986: The dismal science grabs agriculture by the throat
The land has got to cash flow
Breakdown on the ever-expanding fringes of the farm economy has made long-fixed attitudes and policies about rural America negotiable. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/18.11/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inMay 26, 1986: The fate of the grizzly
Grizzly bears: Thriving or vanishing?
A spring conference called “The fate of the grizzly,” sponsored primarily by the University of Colorado Environmental Center, brought together critics of the federal bureaucracy involved in Yellowstone National Park, plus a few of the bureaucrats themselves. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/18.10/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inMay 26, 1986: The fate of the grizzly
Montana’s fight with Burlington Northern goes on, and on
Hit with rising unemployment and a potential $60 million budget shortfall, Montana faces another economic setback from the state’s only railroad. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/18.10/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inApril 15, 1986: BLM privatizes some federal land
Reserve your condo now at the Stapleton Airport
An enterprising reporter has uncovered the secret of low air fares out of Stapleton Airport. Airlines are indeed losing money on each ticket sold. But they are simultaneously raking in enormous commissions from parking lots, news stands, food dispensers and bars. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/18.7/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inApril 15, 1986: BLM privatizes some federal land
The West seesaws on slowing growth
It’s difficult to find a Western city where the fight between developers and controlled growth advocates is not a central issue in local politics. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/18.7/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inApril 15, 1986: BLM privatizes some federal land
BLM privatizes some federal land
Despite pleadings to the contrary by federal appraisers, the Nevada district director for the Bureau of Land Management and his superiors in Washington, D.C., have approved a controversial sale of public land. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/18.7/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inApril 1, 1986: A still-wild chunk of America is vulnerable to development
Oil men stake out the Rocky Mountain Front
Controversy over oil and gas development in a pristine area of the northern Rockies in Montana is heating up. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/18.6/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inApril 1, 1986: A still-wild chunk of America is vulnerable to development
This race of lemmings built power plants
Electrical utilities, water agencies, gas companies, nuclear reactor builders and multinational oil giants all share a volatile and difficult future. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/18.6/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E