A mere 2 percent of the nation’s cattle are consuming the Western public lands that belong to all Americans. So abused are these lands that many millions of acres are only one-tenth as productive as in pre-settlement times. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/17.24/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
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Posted inDecember 23, 1985: High Noon in Washington, D.C.
Montana looks askance at a Wyoming project
Wyoming proposes to build a $49 million dam on the Middle Fork of the Powder River. Downstream, Montana agriculturalists who rely heavily on the river for irrigation worry that the dam will cause their already marginal water to deteriorate further. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/17.24/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inDecember 23, 1985: High Noon in Washington, D.C.
Wildlife is preyed on by cattle and sheep
The desert grasslands of southern Idaho once supported a vast population of antelope, buffalo, deer, elk, moose, grizzly bear and wolves before settlers moved in during the 1840s. Where is all the wildlife today? Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/17.24/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inDecember 23, 1985: High Noon in Washington, D.C.
High Noon in Washington, D.C.
After a year of negotiation between cattle growers, nine national conservation organizations and congressional aides, no compromise was reached on the controversial issue of fees for livestock grazing on public land. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/17.24/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inDecember 9, 1985: Sierra Club wins water lawsuit
The Park Service fights a garbage dump
In Colorado, a garbage dump is proposed next to Florissant Fossil Beds National Monument. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/17.23/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inDecember 9, 1985: Sierra Club wins water lawsuit
The life and death of Rocky Mountain towns
Sadly for both the towns and for progressive editors, the times are changing much faster in these towns than the local cultures. It is highly unlikely that these cultures can adapt, even though their survival is at stake. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/17.23/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inDecember 9, 1985: Sierra Club wins water lawsuit
Sierra Club wins water lawsuit
A federal judge has ruled that when Congress creates a wilderness area, it also creates water rights to go with the wilderness. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/17.23/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inNovember 25, 1985: Tribes struggle for sovereignty and power
Idaho will negotiate water right with tribes
Far-reaching water negotiations have begun between the state of Idaho and the Shoshone-Bannock tribes over water rights in the Snake River Basin. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/17.22/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inNovember 25, 1985: Tribes struggle for sovereignty and power
Indians breathe life into old treaties
Attorneys for tribes in the arid West have sued for and won millions of acre-feet of water over the past two decades. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/17.22/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inNovember 25, 1985: Tribes struggle for sovereignty and power
How will Indians use their water?
The only way the Indian tribes can guarantee posterity is to protect and preserve their lands from despoliation, which will require conservation of their water resources. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/17.22/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inNovember 25, 1985: Tribes struggle for sovereignty and power
Tribes struggle for sovereignty and power
Indian tribes are forcing the United States to make good on a few of the promises made to them in the 19th century. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/17.22/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inNovember 11, 1985: One man's indictment of forestry in Arizona
After decades of trying, opponents get the Central Utah Project in the ring
Residents in 12 counties covering one-third of Utah will vote on whether to back or kill the Bonneville Unit of the multibillion-dollar Central Utah Project. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/17.21/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inNovember 11, 1985: One man's indictment of forestry in Arizona
One man’s indictment of forestry in Arizona
Investigative journalist Ray Ring digs into Forest Service reports to explain why Arizona has been logged more intensively than any other Western state. 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/17.21/download-entire-issue This article appeared in the print edition of the magazine with the […]
Posted inNovember 11, 1985: One man's indictment of forestry in Arizona
A Montana wilderness bill grinds its way through Congress
One of the most controversial areas where special management or national recreation area status is proposed is along the Rocky Mountain Front, a nearly 450,000-acre roadless area adjacent to the Bob Marshall Wilderness. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/17.21/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inOctober 28, 1985: The fully operational MX missile
A BLM employee’s cry of rage
Sometimes it seems that the BLM purposely chooses the worst possible field management, or no management whatsoever, in an attempt to attract public attention. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/17.20/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inOctober 28, 1985: The fully operational MX missile
Last Stand for the Colorado Plateau, Part 2
An effort to create wilderness in the La Sal Mountains near Moab, Utah, highlights infighting between the state’s conservation groups. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/17.20/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inOctober 28, 1985: The fully operational MX missile
The fully operational MX missile
The U.S. Air Force will soon deploy the first operational MX nuclear missile near Cheyenne, Wyo. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/17.20/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inOctober 14, 1985: Last stand for the Colorado Plateau
Few mourn demise of great land swap
The gigantic land swap proposed by the U.S. Forest Service and the Bureau of Land Management has been buried on Capitol Hill with little chance of being resurrected. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/17.19/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inOctober 14, 1985: Last stand for the Colorado Plateau
Exxon Corporation has put the boom back in Wyoming
Exxon’s construction of one of the largest natural gas processing plants in North America has arrived in southwest Wyoming, bringing with it a mixture of wealth and dismay. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/17.19/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inOctober 14, 1985: Last stand for the Colorado Plateau
Last stand for the Colorado Plateau, Part 1
Half of Utah — and the vast majority of its BLM wilderness candidates — lies in the hotly contested and spectacular Colorado Plateau. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/17.19/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E