Conservation is simply a grateful recognition of connections, the self in two-way contact with a world of elements and lives. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/13.22/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
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Getting no breaks at C.M Russell
Livestock grazing and wildlife clash in the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s management plan for the Charles M. Russell National Wildlife Refuge. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/13.21/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Removing the “heavy hand”
As long as we have the federal government in our front yard, we will attempt to work with them to arrive at decisions that are mutually beneficial to Montanans and to the nation as a whole. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/13.21/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Where prairies and mountains class
The Rocky Mountain Front’s Pine Butte Swamp, an area facing oil development, is the last place in the contiguous United States where grizzly bears come down from the mountains to forage in the lowlands. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/13.21/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Sickness and health … or profit and loss
The changes that Congress makes to the Clean Air Act when the act is renewed are sure to have an effect on the Rocky Mountain West. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/13.20/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
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Briney Colorado still defies salty solutions
One thousand miles upriver from Mexico’s farmers, in Colorado’s Grand Valley, the federal effort to control salinity is floundering. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/13.20/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Profiting from parks: None of Watt’s business
Virtually every hotel, store, gas station and restaurant in the national parks is a private, profit-making enterprise. Regulation of these businesses is one of the most important and least understood issues in public land management. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/13.20/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Put that beer can in Bucket No. 14, please
If Edward Abbey were introduced to my father, Edward Abbey would probably toss a beer can at him. My father would pick it up and put it in the proper recycling bucket. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/13.19/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Encounters with Henry on Utah’s Green River
Excerpts from Edward Abbey’s introduction to a new edition of Henry David Thoreau’s Walden. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/13.19/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Revenue bonds put some firms in black, but feds see only red
Large, national retail companies take advantage of industrial revenue bonds intended to provide cheap capital to financially undernourished communities. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/13.19/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
1981: Crying wolf — restoring the ‘rapacious predator’ to the Rockies
Since the completion of the Northern Rocky Mountain Wolf Recovery Plan in 1980, a team of biologists has been working to re-establish breeding populations of wolves in Montana, Idaho and Wyoming. To read this article, click the “View a PDF from the original” link below, or download entire issue: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/13.18/download-entire-issue This article appeared in the […]
Memoirs of a gopher choker
A former predator control agent with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service describes life on the job. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/13.18/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Today the rain blows in like a California tourist …
Don Snow recounts a day fishing in Montana’s Bitterroot Mountains. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/13.18/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Ag loans face dollar drought
Low-interest loan programs will likely benefit large, already successful farmers and investors, while doing little to aid small or beginning farmers. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/13.17/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Super-trains breed super-terminals
Favoring bigger trains, Burlington Northern will discontinue rail service to small agricultural communities like Rapelje, Montana. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/13.17/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Cattle, cussing and cowboys
HCN editor Dan Whipple follows a cattle drive in Utah’s Uinta Mountains. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/13.16/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
The Pit and the Penstemon
An overview of Wyoming’s endangered plant species, including Penstemon acaulis, Laramie false sagebrush and Ross bentgrass. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/13.16/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
1080 revival renews old wrangle
Sheep producers vigorously lobby the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to lift a ban on Compound 1080, which is used to poison predators. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/13.16/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Colorado county scores record deal to handle energy growth
In a precedent-setting move that has stirred some corporate nerves, the Western Fuels Corp. has agreed to spend at least $15 million to help western Colorado’s Rio Blanco County prepare for a new coal mine. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/13.15/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
