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
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Posted inJune 10, 1985: The Endangered Species Act is thus far a glass hammer
What do grizzly bear watchers, outfitters and researchers have in common? Not much.
Everyone agrees the bear should be saved. The question has been and continues to be: how? Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/17.11/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inJune 10, 1985: The Endangered Species Act is thus far a glass hammer
A rare and tiny ferret points to the nation’s muddled approach to endangered species
Although a black-footed ferret recovery effort in Wyoming has scored successes, progress toward captive breeding has been rocky and slow. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/17.11/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inJune 10, 1985: The Endangered Species Act is thus far a glass hammer
Congress wasn’t thinking of the earth’s humbler creatures when it passed this law
The Endangered Species Act runs into Western water law as the tiny Colorado squawfish, humpback chub and the ponytail chub thwart dams in the Colorado River basin. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/17.11/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inMay 27, 1985: Wilderness: It ain't what you think
Can wilderness be saved from Vibram soles?
Trends in visitor use, lackadaisical management, shoestring funding levels and political motivations have all contributed to a failure to control overuse. To read the full text, click on the “View a PDF from the original” link below (shorter download), or download a PDF of the entire issue: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/17.10/download-entire-issue This article appeared in the print edition […]
Posted inMay 27, 1985: Wilderness: It ain't what you think
Wilderness management’s time has come
Although hundreds of wilderness areas have been created, few are actually managed according to the spirit of the Wilderness Act. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/17.10/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inMay 27, 1985: Wilderness: It ain't what you think
Idaho’s River of No Return Wilderness: Jetboats, planes are the rule here
Holes within the Frank Church-River of No Return Wilderness mean heavily used exceptions to the Wilderness Act. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/17.10/download-entire-issue This article appeared in the print edition of the magazine with the headline Idaho’s River of No Return Wilderness: Jetboats, planes are the rule here.
Posted inMay 13, 1985: Mining may come to a wilderness
The economics of logging will shape Idaho wildlands
The recent decline in Idaho’s wood-products industry helps explain why the industry and the Idaho congressional delegation led by Republican Sen. James McClure have fought so fiercely against additional wilderness. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/17.9/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inMay 13, 1985: Mining may come to a wilderness
The Montana Legislature gave coal a break
Montana’s coal severance tax may still be the highest in the nation at 30 percent, but a portion of that environmental insurance was chipped away during the 1985 Montana Legislature. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/17.9/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inMay 13, 1985: Mining may come to a wilderness
Mining may come to a wilderness
Taking advantage of the 1872 Mining Law and the exemption in the Wilderness Act, U.S. Borax and the American Smelting and Refining Company want to mine in Montana’s Cabinet Mountains. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/17.9/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inApril 29, 1985: A financial buccaneer and his resort come to Idaho's Priest Lake
Llamas step softly and carry big packs
The Forest Service district office in Boulder, Colo., has invited back one of its most productive summer employees: Julio, a five-year-old, chocolate brown llama. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/17.8/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inApril 29, 1985: A financial buccaneer and his resort come to Idaho's Priest Lake
A financial buccaneer and his resort come to Idaho’s Priest Lake
Priest Lake’s future is tangled in a web of money-making through the doings and undoings of British financier Sir James Goldsmith. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/17.8/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inApril 15, 1985: Peaches and apples roar back
Idaho will further dewater the Snake River
The ratification of the Snake River Water Agreement sets off an adjudication of water rights on the Snake River. It’s expected to take 10 years to determine how much unappropriated water remains to be diverted. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/17.7/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inApril 15, 1985: Peaches and apples roar back
A Montana rancher struggles against stripmines and an unravelling rural fabric
Since the late 1800s when Patty Kluver’s ancestors and thousands of other pioneer families established ranches across the West, there have been few real changes in that way of life. Now the region is convulsed by change. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/17.7/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inApril 15, 1985: Peaches and apples roar back
Grand Junction ran a high gold fever
The people living through western Colorado’s energy boom and bust over the last five years are still bewildered. Most say it was a period of heady euphoria followed by thousands of personal tragedies that stunned the region. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/17.7/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inApril 15, 1985: Peaches and apples roar back
Peaches and apples roar back
In the wake of the collapse of the early 1980s oil shale boom in and around Palisade, Colo., fruitgrowing is one of the few games in town. (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/17.7/download-entire-issue) This article appeared […]
Posted inApril 1, 1985: A New Mexico uranium town wonders how far it will fall
Three states sue DOE on the nuclear dump issue
Washington has sued the U.S. Department of Energy over the federal government’s proposed study of the Hanford Nuclear Reservation for siting of a high-level nuclear waste repository, adding to actions by Nevada and Texas against similar proposals for those states. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/17.6/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inApril 1, 1985: A New Mexico uranium town wonders how far it will fall
Indians and environmentalists drift apart
The Navajo Tribe’s decision to build another mammoth coal-fired plant in the Four Corners area is a hard blow to what has been a natural alliance. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/17.6/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inApril 1, 1985: A New Mexico uranium town wonders how far it will fall
A New Mexico uranium town wonders how far it will fall
Grants Pass, N.M., was a thriving town built on the uranium boom that peaked in 1980. But in the wake of the uranium bust, businesses are hurting and unemployment has hit 25 percent. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/17.6/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inMarch 18, 1985: A busted Wyoming mining town remains haunted by 550 lost jobs
Utahns try to bury Canyonlands dump
The Department of Energy has run into stiff opposition to its plans for siting the nation’s first high-level nuclear waste dump at the Davis and Lavender Canyon sites a mile from Canyonlands National Park. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/17.5/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E