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Recent accidents illustrate now little is known about hazardous materials and what little control there is over their transportation. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/14.11/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E

Wyoming’s Industrial Development Information and Siting Act of 1975 has helped the town of Wheatland cope with construction of a giant coal-fired power plant. But the law hasn’t been able to address familiar boom-town social ills. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/14.11/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E

Coyotes continue to survive and adapt, despite decades of efforts to exterminate them. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/14.10/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E

Most energy experts now agree that the United States will never again supply a majority of its petroleum needs through production of conventional reserves. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/14.10/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E

It’s been five years since Congress passed the Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act requiring coal companies to reclaim strip-mines, but the science and methods of reclamation are still being developed. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/14.9/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E

Nationwide, almost four billion tons of topsoil are lost every year to water erosion. About half that loss is on cropland. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/14.8/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E

The economic state of ranching and farming in the United States today is so gloomy that any reasonable business-person would ask, ”Why the hell is anyone in agriculture?” Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/14.8/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E

Despite becoming the bustling hub of the West’s energy boom, Denver is tied to an outside business elite, and remains a secondary center of power whose major role consists of dominating more exploited regions of the interior. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/14.7/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E

Montana Governor Ted Schwinden has a folksy style, but he he has built a powerful political network to establish a following that defies political parties. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/14.7/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E

Workers are flooding Dickinson and Williston, the two largest towns in western North Dakota, to take part in the oil boom. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/14.6/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E

Environmentalists oppose bills, supported by snowmobiling and timber interests, that would establish more wilderness in Montana and Wyoming. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/14.6/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E

When the board of directors of the Washington Public Power Supply System voted unanimously to stop construction of their nuclear power projects 4 and 5, they sent a message to other utilities: There’s no such thing as electricity too cheap to meter. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/14.5/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E

Forest managers are responding to the mountain pine beetle epidemic, which is killing trees across the Rocky Mountain region, with an environmentally-based method called “integrated pest management.” Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/14.5/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E