Trappers Lake in Northwest Colorado’s Flat Top Wilderness has finally been accorded the distinction it deserves as the birthplace of the wilderness concept. And Arthur Carhart, the concept’s father, has finally been given his due. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/17.18/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
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Posted inSeptember 30, 1985: Let the brawl begin
Treating forests as if they had souls
Considering the educational priorities of most forestry schools, it is not surprising that our national forests are badly mismanaged as ecosystems. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/17.18/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inSeptember 30, 1985: Let the brawl begin
Let the brawl begin
For decades, the Missouri River basin has gotten along without interstate water compacts and lawsuits — but now that’s changing. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/17.18/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inSeptember 16, 1985: Seeing the forest through the eyes of its users
Montana Power wins a big one at Colstrip
The Montana Public Service Commission has reversed an aggressive decision it made in 1984 to deny Montana Power Company a rate increase to fund an expansion of its Colstrip coal-fired power plant. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/17.17/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inSeptember 16, 1985: Seeing the forest through the eyes of its users
Cutting the forests down to Jeffersonian size
The small-mill local-market industry has proliferated during this century, in the wake of the tree-mining industry that logged-out the old-growth and moved on. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/17.17/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inSeptember 16, 1985: Seeing the forest through the eyes of its users
The timber industry is a way of life
The romantic appeal of the logging industry surely adds to the community spirit seen at Horseshoe Bend’s Loggers’ Day in Idaho. But there is another reason logging and millwork have maintained a definite sense of worth: the pay. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/17.17/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inSeptember 16, 1985: Seeing the forest through the eyes of its users
Sawing through to another world
The author recounts his time at a sawmill at Crystal Creek, Colo., a juncture of two worlds: between logs and boards, between trees and what becomes of them. (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/17.17/download-entire-issue.) This article appeared […]
Posted inAugust 19, 1985: How to articulate the delight?
Colorado is the Appalachia of the West
At one time, all Western states had a similar approach to water. But Colorado now lags in terms of building the public interest into water matters. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/17.16/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inAugust 19, 1985: How to articulate the delight?
Forest logging plan squashed from above
The U.S. Department of Agriculture has taken a giant step into the debate over below-cost timber sales in the Rockies and aspen cutting in Colorado. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/17.16/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inAugust 19, 1985: How to articulate the delight?
How to articulate the delight?
There are simple pleasures in being a fire lookout in Idaho. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/17.16/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inAugust 5, 1985: The Wilderness Society's outstanding alumni
Canadian mine threatens northern Montana
The Cabin Creek coal-mining project is in British Columbia would excavate open pits about five miles north of the U.S.-Canadian border and just off the North Fork of the Flathead River. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/17.15/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inAugust 5, 1985: The Wilderness Society's outstanding alumni
Will politics doom the ferret?
Endangered species biologist Tim Clark has chosen to occupy a world rife with contradictions, politics and emotion. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/17.15/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inAugust 5, 1985: The Wilderness Society's outstanding alumni
The Wilderness Society’s outstanding alumni
Most former staff from the Wilderness Society are still doing grassroots wilderness work in the West. They just aren’t working for the Wilderness Society. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/17.15/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inJuly 22, 1985: Bailing out a National Monument in New Mexico
Bailing out a National Monument in New Mexico
Heavy runoff has overflowed the Cochiti Reservoir, threatening the Anasazi ruins and wildlife of Bandelier National Monument. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/17.14/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inJuly 22, 1985: Bailing out a National Monument in New Mexico
The West learns to live with wood stoves
Only a few short years ago residents of Missoula, Montana, scoffed at the thought that wood-burning stoves and fireplaces — not industry — were the primary cause of the city’s suffocating bouts of winter air pollution. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/17.14/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inJuly 8, 1985: A fruitgrower falls prey to his poisonous sprays
1080 may hasten the sheep industry’s death
If compound 1080 again comes into wide use, the inevitable abuses that will follow could mean the end of livestock grazing on public lands. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/17.13/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inJuly 8, 1985: A fruitgrower falls prey to his poisonous sprays
A fruitgrower falls prey to his poisonous sprays
Fruitgrowers in the North Fork Valley in Delta County, Colo., wake up to the dangerous health effects of pesticides. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/17.13/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inJuly 8, 1985: A fruitgrower falls prey to his poisonous sprays
The Grand Canyon is filled — with noise
The mechanized world of the late 20th century is intruding in an unexpected way in the wilderness of Grand Canyon National Park. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/17.13/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inJune 24, 1985: Murky language lands an EIS in deep water
Idaho forests to get $1.3 billion in roads
Northern Idaho’s three National Forests plan to build 16,570 miles of new roads over the next 45 years. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/17.12/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inJune 24, 1985: Murky language lands an EIS in deep water
Arizona farmers get a reprieve as CAP water makes its debut
In an area stressed by groundwater depletion, farmers and politicians watch as the first trickle of Central Arizona Project water flows. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/17.12/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E