A welding engineer with the Washington Public Power Plant Supply System says the plant has structural problems that could cause costly delays. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/14.24/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
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Posted inNovember 26, 1982: Whitewater trespass
The MX finds its home in the West
President Reagan announced Monday night that the controversial MX missile would be deployed at Warren Air Force Base near Cheyenne, Wyoming. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/14.23/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inNovember 26, 1982: Whitewater trespass
CERT taking new direction
The Council of Energy Resource Tribes board has chosen as its new chairman the leader of a tribe that has opposed energy development. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/14.23/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inNovember 26, 1982: Whitewater trespass
Urban run-off: Pollution storms into Denver rivers
In some instances, after a storm, the amount of lead in Colorado’s South Platte River was up to 10 times higher than state water standards permit. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/14.23/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inNovember 26, 1982: Whitewater trespass
Whitewater trespass
Whitewater enthusiasts who ignore the Colorado Supreme Court’s ruling that prohibits floating across private land are guilty of third degree criminal trespass. (The second installment of a two-part feature on the future of white-water sports in Colorado.) Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/14.23/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inNovember 12, 1982: Running the Rockies' wild and scenic rivers
Of profit and risk
The Wyoming Industrial Siting Council is being prudent in considering requiring the Hampshire Energy Company, which is planning a coal-to-gasoline conversion plant in Gillette, Wyo., to post a performance bond to protect local governments. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/14.22/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inNovember 12, 1982: Running the Rockies' wild and scenic rivers
Colorado’s unexpected whitewater dangers
Today in Colorado, rafters, kayakers, canoeists and thousands of tourists proclaim whitewater recreation as the sport of the ’80s. (The first installment of a two-part feature on the future of white-water sports in Colorado.) Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/14.22/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inNovember 12, 1982: Running the Rockies' wild and scenic rivers
Running the Rockies’ wild and scenic rivers
The Reagan administration has sent Congress a list of rivers it recommends for inclusion in the Nation Wild and Scenic Rivers System, the first time in four years that any rivers outside of Alaska have been recommended. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/14.22/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inOctober 29, 1982: Winding up in Medicine Bow
Prognosis gloomy for Idaho caribou
The last band of mountain caribou in the lower 48 states, in the Selkirk Mountains of northeastern Washington and norther Idaho, are threatened by a timber sale in an area critical to the caribou’s movement between the United States and Canada. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/14.21/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inOctober 29, 1982: Winding up in Medicine Bow
Regulatory reform goes awry
The Office of Surface Mining’s proposed changes to coal mining regulations will weaken necessary rules without economic justification. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/14.21/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inOctober 29, 1982: Winding up in Medicine Bow
Hard times in hard rock
ARCO has closed not only its infamous Washoe Smelter at Anaconda, but also the copper refinery at Great Falls, the mile-wide Berkeley Pit and the entire underground mining operation underlying Butte, Montana. (Plus articles on copper depression in Arizona and Utah.) Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/14.21/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inOctober 29, 1982: Winding up in Medicine Bow
Winding up in Medicine Bow
A Bureau of Reclamation wind turbine demonstration project in Wyoming may show the future promise of wind power. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/14.21/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inOctober 15, 1982: The Best and Worst of the West in Congress
A bias toward the public land
We aren’t wholly controlled by economic and scientific laws. There are spiritual values that people have and share and that they sometimes act to preserve. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/14.20/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inOctober 15, 1982: The Best and Worst of the West in Congress
Grazing rights extended in Capitol Reef
The U.S. Senate and House have passed legislation to extend cattle grazing for Utah ranchers into Capitol Reef National Park. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/14.20/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inOctober 15, 1982: The Best and Worst of the West in Congress
The Best and Worst of the West in Congress
A review of the West’s congressional delegates, based on how well they accomplished their own agendas, regardless of whether they were pro- or anti-environment. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/14.20/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inOctober 1, 1982: A talk with James Watt
Eco groups protest new coal regs
Eight conservation groups have filed suit in federal district court in Washington, D.C. to halt implementation of the new federal coal leasing regulations which went into effect August 30. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/14.19/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inOctober 1, 1982: A talk with James Watt
A talk with James Watt
An HCN exclusive interview with Interior Secretary James Watt during a visit to Lander, Wyo. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/14.19/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inOctober 1, 1982: A talk with James Watt
Heat on Idaho to rewrite water laws
A proposed northern Idaho timber sale, called unacceptable by the state Bureau of Water Quality, has resulted in attempts by the Forest Service and timber industry to rewrite the state water pollution law. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/14.19/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inSeptember 17, 1982: Rain, rain, go away
The murky water of Flaming Gorge
Accelerated eutrophication at Wyoming’s Flaming Gorge reservoir has some water experts concerned enough to want a complete study conducted. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/14.18/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inSeptember 17, 1982: Rain, rain, go away
Taking aim at the Clean Air Act
How top executives from the largest mining, energy and banking interests in the Rocky Mountains work to ambush the single most important piece of legislation safe-guarding the West: the Clean Air Act of 1970. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/14.18/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E