We have followed the agency for a decade. The sum total of the positive, constructive things we can say is that there are good people out in the field. And some of them have the courage and ingenuity to do good work despite their superiors. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/16.5/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
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Posted inMarch 19, 1984: Foes launch first-strike attack on MX
Foes launch first-strike attack on MX
The MX missile deployment in Nebraska and Wyoming is meeting stepped up opposition, with Colorado pressing to be included in an assessment of regional impacts. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/16.5/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inMarch 19, 1984: Foes launch first-strike attack on MX
They live with silos that don’t hold corn
Press attention has centered on what spokesmen on each side of the MX issue are saying. What about the people who literally live next door to the silos where the MX would be placed? Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/16.5/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inMarch 5, 1984: Linowes Commission raps coal leasing
The Dolores Project is man’s latest, and most grandiose, attempt to water Montezuma Valley
The Dolores project, centered around the new McPhee Dam, will deliver water to fields and towns, and will also epitomize government spending, manipulation and regulation at their most direct applications. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/16.4/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inMarch 5, 1984: Linowes Commission raps coal leasing
Utah’s wilderness bill heads for the House
Three years in the making, Utah’s proposed Wilderness Act of 1984 begins its final battle, in the House of Representatives. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/16.4/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inMarch 5, 1984: Linowes Commission raps coal leasing
The Aamodt case pits rural New Mexicans against each other
Western water fights usually pit local residents against outsiders. But in the Pojoaque valley north of Santa Fe, N.M., water has turned residents of several small Hispanic towns against the people living around them in Indian pueblos. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/16.4/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inMarch 5, 1984: Linowes Commission raps coal leasing
Linowes Commission raps coal leasing
The Linowes Commission has found James Watt’s Department of Interior guilty of man-handling coal leasing. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/16.4/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inFebruary 20, 1984: How Hugh Kaufman moves the ball
The Central Arizona Project is designed to water homes
The key to Arizona doubling its population by the year 2000, as many predict it will, is the Central Arizona Project, initially sold as an agricultural project to water cotton, wheat and alfalfa. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/16.3/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inFebruary 20, 1984: How Hugh Kaufman moves the ball
This year, the Colorado River will bury us in electricity
Last year’s precipitation came late in the season and flooded the Colorado River with water. This year the snows came early, and will flood the region with electricity. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/16.3/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inFebruary 20, 1984: How Hugh Kaufman moves the ball
How Hugh Kaufman moves the ball
EPA Superfund whistleblower Hugh Kaufman travels the country telling one horror story after another about the Carter and Reagan administrations. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/16.3/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inFebruary 6, 1984: Wyoming: a small town with long streets
FDR’s and the nation’s best Interior Secretary
More than most public officials of his or any time, former Interior Secretary Harold Ickes knew how to make government work, and what he did to make it work wasn’t always pretty. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/16.2/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inFebruary 6, 1984: Wyoming: a small town with long streets
James Watt lacks the touch to be Wyoming’s governor
James Watt has as little chance of becoming governor of Wyoming as he has of being reappointed Secretary of Interior. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/16.2/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inFebruary 6, 1984: Wyoming: a small town with long streets
Who will inherit Wyoming?
If James Watt doesn’t have the political touch to become Wyoming’s next governor, who does? Perhaps the best clue can be found by looking at the present Governor, Ed Herschler, a Democrat. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/16.2/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inJanuary 23, 1984: The future of the West
Colorado’s governor peers ahead and finds life dismal in 2005
You cannot believe and you cannot fully understand the problems we have in running a country of 430 million Americans as we enter the 21st century, says Gov. Richard Lamm. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/16.1/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inJanuary 23, 1984: The future of the West
The Rockies have a role in a boomless future
I don’t think there is a “foreseeable future” for the Rockies. I’m not sure there is even a viable, likely future everyone would work toward or against. A lot of Rocky Mountain futurism resembles that branch of Christianity better at imagining hell than heaven. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/16.1/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inJanuary 23, 1984: The future of the West
Does a rising Great Salt Lake portend a wet Western future?
For the seventh year in a row, the Great Salt Lake is rising, threatening Interstate highways, wildlife sanctuaries, thousands of homes and businesses, and possibly downtown Salt Lake City itself. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/16.1/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inDecember 26, 1983: Residents fight to control a toxic dump
The EPA now trades lives for jobs
EPA head William Ruckelshaus has repeatedly sounded the theme that the agency needs more flexibility to carry out its mission. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/15.24/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inDecember 26, 1983: Residents fight to control a toxic dump
Watt’s coal commission pushes for leasing
The Linowes Commission, born of Congressional dissatisfaction with Secretary James Watt’s approach to coal leasing, is pushing for changes in laws and procedures that will allow the federal government to make leasing more attractive. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/15.24/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inDecember 26, 1983: Residents fight to control a toxic dump
Residents fight to control a toxic dump
Grassroots groups, not government regulators, are reacting to problems at the Envirosafe toxic waste landfill in Idaho, a facility once considered the safest in the West. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/15.24/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inDecember 12, 1983: 1984 may be a Wilderness Year
Rancher fights missiles with six-shooter
Ranchers are standing up to the U.S. Army, which in the 1940s acquired their land to create the White Sands Missile Range, because they feel they were never adequately compensated for the loss of that land. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/15.23/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E