The existing technological culture won’t be pushed aside without a hard fight. The resilience of the Bureau of Reclamation at Glen Canyon Dam this summer showed that. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/15.23/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
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Posted inDecember 12, 1983: 1984 may be a Wilderness Year
How Lake Powell almost broke free of Glen Canyon Dam
A harrowing, in-depth account of how the Bureau of Reclamation responded to the Colorado River’s wrathful 1982 summer runoff that nearly broke the Glen Canyon Dam. (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/15.23/download-entire-issue.) This article appeared in […]
Posted inDecember 12, 1983: 1984 may be a Wilderness Year
1984 may be a Wilderness Year
1984 is ripe for a flood of state wilderness bills to pass Congress, meaning that President Ronald Reagan could end up signing more wilderness legislation into law than any other chief executive. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/15.23/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inNovember 28, 1983: Major quake reshapes Idaho
A Colorado town is about to swear off coal power
Thanks to a retired Nazarene minister, the tiny and remote town of Lake City, Colo., will soon be powered by water flowing down the Lake Fork of the Gunnison River. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/15.22/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inNovember 28, 1983: Major quake reshapes Idaho
Major quake reshapes Idaho
The biggest earthquake in the United States in 24 years rippled through Idaho on October 28, blasting trees from the ground and causing widespread damage. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/15.22/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inNovember 28, 1983: Major quake reshapes Idaho
Small hydro’s prospects are not bright
The possibility that streams and canals throughout Colorado would be tapped during this decade to generate electricity is floundering, according to speakers at a small-hydro conference. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/15.22/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inNovember 14, 1983: New coalition fights pipeline
Zah warns that mining is not a panacea
Navajo Tribal Chairman Peterson Zah told the Council of Energy Resource Tribes members here last month that they should not look at energy resources as the answer to all the problems that exist on their reservations. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/15.21/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inNovember 14, 1983: New coalition fights pipeline
A tiny town fights the U.S. Air Force
Residents of Reserve, New Mexico, are poking holes in a plan that would turn the airspace over their town into a jet training ground. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/15.21/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inNovember 14, 1983: New coalition fights pipeline
New coalition fights pipeline
In Montana, a construction workers’ union has joined the state’s leading environmental group in a lawsuit against a power company and state agencies that granted permits for a 200-mile-long natural gas pipeline. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/15.21/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inOctober 31, 1983: What Watt wrought
Citizens and the Forest Service join forces to save a wilderness area
When Colorado’s Indian Peaks Wilderness drastically changed its regulations recently, it did so with the help of a unique band of citizens called the Indian Peaks Wilderness Area Working Group. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/15.20/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inOctober 31, 1983: What Watt wrought
James Watt left his mark on Idaho
Watt’s unique concept of balanced management landed on Idaho with his appointments to the BLM districts’ citizen advisory boards. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/15.20/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inOctober 31, 1983: What Watt wrought
Watt’s ignorance of coal proved fatal
Secretary James Watt’s downfall was caused largely by his apparent failure to understand the major coal issues and the economy that has evolved since his early stint in Interior in the mid-1970s. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/15.20/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inOctober 14, 1983: A lawsuit drills oil and gas leases
The busted West competes for a TV-dinner factory
Three Western communities recently went all out to attract a $75 million Stouffer Corporation factory and its 1200 jobs. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/15.19/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inOctober 14, 1983: A lawsuit drills oil and gas leases
A lawsuit drills oil and gas leases
The battle over oil and gas drilling in the Palisades area straddling the Idaho-Wyoming border illustrates the chaotic way in which natural resource development and wilderness preservation decisions are made. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/15.19/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inOctober 14, 1983: A lawsuit drills oil and gas leases
Coal slurry pipelines go down the tubes
An unlikely coalition of railroads and environmentalists have claimed victory over coal slurry interests. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/15.19/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inOctober 3, 1983: Floods reveal water policy chaos
Watt calls out the ‘True America’
James Watt must be seen as a man with a mission. Unlike a Richard Nixon or a Ronald Reagan, Watt’s mission is more important to him than politics. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/15.18/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inOctober 3, 1983: Floods reveal water policy chaos
An empty ditch becomes a river
For three years, Dave Odell has dedicated himself to the resurrection of Montana’s irrigation-stressed Bitterroot River. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/15.18/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inOctober 3, 1983: Floods reveal water policy chaos
Floods reveal water policy chaos
Was this year’s high water a “controlled flood” as the Bureau of Reclamation contends? Or was it, as residents along the Lower Colorado maintain, a “manmade disaster”? Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/15.18/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inSeptember 19, 1983: Acid rain: a corrosive issue across the nation
Acid rain won’t boom the West’s coal
Although the passage of the Clean Air Act in 1970 created higher demand for low-sulfur coal, quadrupling Western coal production in a decade, the 1980s acid rain legislation won’t have the same effect. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/15.17/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inSeptember 19, 1983: Acid rain: a corrosive issue across the nation
Wyoming gets rid of natural gas with a flare
Wyoming is helping America rid itself of the natural gas bubble. For more than a month now the state has let well owners flare $40,000 to $70,000 worth of natural gas a day. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/15.17/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E