Despite a few rearguard skirmishes over the “scientific” question, the real issue has become: how much reduction in acidic emissions will there be, and how will those reduction be achieved? Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/15.17/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
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Posted inSeptember 5, 1983: Dollars no longer flow uphill
Nuking the media
Trickery and half-truths are what the nuclear industry and its appendages fed to America’s journalists for several decades. It used journalists to tell America that nuclear power was perfectly safe, run by well-trained technicians, and would provide the nation with endless amounts of very cheap energy. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/15.16/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inSeptember 5, 1983: Dollars no longer flow uphill
Dollars no longer flow uphill
Everyone from dam builders to dam blockers agrees that no new, large and federally funded dams are likely to be built. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/15.16/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inSeptember 5, 1983: Dollars no longer flow uphill
Navajos, utility agree to talk
The Navajo tribe and Public Service Company of New Mexico have stopped struggling for control over 35,000 acres of coal-rich land south of Farmington. Instead, they’ve begun to negotiate a partnership to jointly develop a power plant there. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/15.16/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inAugust 5, 1983: Missiles, men and Armageddon
WPPSS, there goes another billion
The Washington Public Power Supply System continued to shudder toward total collapse when formal default was recently declared on $2.25 billion in bonds issued to finance construction of two now-terminated nuclear power plants. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/15.15/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inAugust 5, 1983: Missiles, men and Armageddon
Hanford and INEL: Building bombs in the Rockies
What this administration needs now — according to its spokesman — is a good $4 billion tritium producer to help produce enough strategic fuel for the neutron bomb, the cruise missile, the MX and the other additions to the nuclear arsenal. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/15.15/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inAugust 5, 1983: Missiles, men and Armageddon
Missiles, men and Armageddon
The Rockies and Great Plains are home to virtually all of the United States’ land-based nuclear intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs). Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/15.15/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inJuly 22, 1983: San Juan Basin faces massive coal sale
Groups win Montana power line appeal
Responding to an administrative appeal from three Montana conservation groups, the Forest Service has agreed to block construction of the Bonneville Power Administration’s Colstrip transmission line across western Montana. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/15.14/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inJuly 22, 1983: San Juan Basin faces massive coal sale
Volunteers in Parks: a booming program
Both the U.S. Forest Service and the National Park Service are relying more heavily on their already successful programs, and the number of volunteers in the parks and national forests is increasing. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/15.14/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inJuly 22, 1983: San Juan Basin faces massive coal sale
San Juan Basin faces massive coal sale
The proposed San Juan Basin coal sale in northwest New Mexico is one of four massive competitive lease sales planned by the Interior Department. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/15.14/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inJuly 8, 1983: Playing presidential politics in Colorado ski country
Pothunting for profit — and the loss of history
Although the Archaeological Resources Protection Act of 1979 prohibits the taking of Indian artifacts, each year countless pieces of thousand-year-old Anasazi pottery are taken home as souvenirs. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/15.13/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inJuly 8, 1983: Playing presidential politics in Colorado ski country
Poaching: a big Rocky Mountain business
Poaching, from the small-scale to big-time commercialization, is rampant in the Rocky Mountains and elsewhere. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/15.13/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inJuly 8, 1983: Playing presidential politics in Colorado ski country
Playing presidential politics in Colorado ski country
Gary Hart, Colorado’s senior senator and the Rocky Mountain West’s own presidential candidate, talks conservation in Snowmass Village. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/15.13/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inJune 24, 1983: Breaking faith with Old Faithful
Breaking faith with Old Faithful
Applications for drilling for geothermal steam just west of Yellowstone National Park may threaten Old Faithful, the park’s iconic geyser. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/15.12/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inJune 24, 1983: Breaking faith with Old Faithful
Stillwater’s platinum runs deep
Yellowstone area residents, mining proponents and others are still quarreling over how much protection to give to Yellowstone National Park’s boundary lands, such as Montana’s Beartooth Range, home to a rich platinum deposit. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/15.12/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inJune 24, 1983: Breaking faith with Old Faithful
Study sees four Powder River dams
A draft study on the Powder River Basin prepared for the Wyoming Water Development Commission recommends construction of four new water projects. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/15.12/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inJune 24, 1983: Breaking faith with Old Faithful
The middle of the madding crowd
Has much changed since Rudyard Kipling toured Yellowstone in 1889 and wished he were dead, rather than be among preening American tourists? Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/15.12/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inJune 10, 1983: Money in search of an idea
Greater Yellowstone Coalition formed
About 50 environmentalists from Wyoming, Montana and Idaho met in Jackson Hole as the founding convention for a the new Greater Yellowstone Coalition. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/15.11/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inJune 10, 1983: Money in search of an idea
Round 1080 in an old, old feud
President Reagan’s lifting of the 1972 executive order banning 1080 and other poisons on public land raises old questions about predator control. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/15.11/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inJune 10, 1983: Money in search of an idea
Idealists need not apply
Montana environmentalists waited to see how Governor Schwinden’s administration might deal with the state’s Department of Natural Resources and Conservation. They have now waited and seen, and their patience is growing thin. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/15.11/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E