In the year of the drought, in the middle of Wyoming’s Red Desert, Union 76’s Minerals Exploration Co. faces an ironic problem: what to do with a pesky 11,000 acre-feet per year of good quality ground water that will seep into its proposed open pit uranium mine. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/9.14/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
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Posted inJuly 1, 1977: Cowtown's manure means megawatts
Cowtown’s manure means megawatts
A Colorado company called Bio-Gas claims it can provide rural electricity by harvesting and digesting cow manure to produce burnable methane gas. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/9.13/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inJuly 1, 1977: Cowtown's manure means megawatts
N.M. solar power group prefers passive designs
Keith Haggard, the founder and executive director of the New Mexico Solar Energy Association, shares his experiences advocating for solar technology. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/9.13/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inJuly 1, 1977: Cowtown's manure means megawatts
Ski resorts, logging imperil Madison
A ski resort, power line, and timber development threaten efforts to designate one of the nation’s largest contiguous roadless expanses — Montana’s Madison Range — as potential wilderness. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/9.13/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inJune 17, 1977: Officials measure charms of Sweetwater Canyon
Officials measure charms of Sweetwater Canyon
A group led by the Bureau of Reclamation and the Bureau of Land Management embarks along Wyoming’s Sweetwater Canyon to determine whether this river section measures up to Wild and Scenic status. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/9.12/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inJune 17, 1977: Officials measure charms of Sweetwater Canyon
Antelope losing home on the range
A brief natural history of the pronghorn antelope and discussion of concerns about habitat loss in Wyoming’s Seven Lakes area, where energy development is accelerating. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/9.12/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inJune 3, 1977: Canadian project may pollute U.S.
Canadian project may pollute U.S.
A massive Canadian energy complex along the U.S.-Canadian border in Saskatchewan is becoming one of the most complicated legal controversies the West has ever faced. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/9.11/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inJune 3, 1977: Canadian project may pollute U.S.
Dam builders nervous about Carter camp
The nation’s dam builders have been put on alert: President Jimmy Carter’s assault on their pet projects is only the beginning of what he wants to be a reversal in national water policy. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/9.11/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inJune 3, 1977: Canadian project may pollute U.S.
Mary Hunter Austin defended the deserts with gusto
If anything characterizes Mary Hunter Austin, it is not the disparateness of social reprobation, ill health, or the constant searches of her life, but integration, the harmony of earth and man. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/9.11/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inMay 20, 1977: Carter's energy plan will push Western coal boom
Carter’s energy plan will push Western coal boom
The president’s call to nearly double coal development will disproportionately affect the region.
Posted inMay 20, 1977: Carter's energy plan will push Western coal boom
Carving up Alaska and keeping one share wild
As if in return for the great mineral wealth that the nation is seeking on Alaska’s frontier, the Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act would give the nation millions of acres of public domain as new national parks, wildlife refuges, national forests, and wild and scenic rivers. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/9.10/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inMay 20, 1977: Carter's energy plan will push Western coal boom
Rod Nash sees end to the freedom of the hills
Roderick Nash, whose passion is exploring and preserving wilderness, sees wilderness not as an amenity, but as a powerful aid for overcoming a frontier mentality. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/9.10/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inMay 6, 1977: Coal plant planners eye Southern Utah
Pinchot ruled the Forest Service back when conservation was king
In the second of a two-part series, author Peter Wild recounts how Gifford Pinchot tramped through the West and schemed with President Teddy Roosevelt, and ultimately became chief of 16 million acres of forest reserves. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/9.9/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inMay 6, 1977: Coal plant planners eye Southern Utah
Severed mineral estate haunts Western ranchers
When Congress passed the Stock-Raising Homestead Act in 1916 to further encourage development of the west, it didn’t foresee the stress it would put on ranchers by reserving the mineral rights on that land for the federal government, creating “split-estate.” Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/9.9/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inMay 6, 1977: Coal plant planners eye Southern Utah
Coal plant planners eye Southern Utah
In the wake of the defeated plans for the giant Kaiparowits power plant, another coal-fired power plant is planned for the canyon country of southern Utah — the 3,000 megawatt Intermountain Power Project, to be located 10 miles east of Capitol Reef National Park. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/9.9/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inApril 22, 1977: Bighorn water battle goes to court
Bighorn water battle goes to court
For the Shoshone and Arapahoe Indian tribes, everything is at stake in a suit filed by the state of Wyoming requiring more than 20,000 water users in the Bighorn River basin to defend their water rights. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/9.8/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inApril 22, 1977: Bighorn water battle goes to court
Stubborn tree farmer rescues forest
Gifford Pinchot is best remembered as the first head of the U.S. Forest Service, but he was also a man who for 20 years pined for his dead girlfriend, who astounded his own Republican party by appointing women and blacks to office, and who thought John Muir demented. The first in a two-part series about […]
Posted inApril 22, 1977: Bighorn water battle goes to court
The bald eagle: our endangered emblem
Roughly two hundred years after the bald eagle was chosen as America’s national symbol, population studies conducted by the Department of Interior reveal a devastating nose-dive in the numbers of bald eagles. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/9.8/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inApril 8, 1977: Cranes' fate depends on Platte's flow
Andrus gives reprieve to Grand Canyon burros
Interior Secretary Cecil Andrus has announced that before any action is taken to exterminate 2,000 feral burros in Grand Canyon National Park, a full environmental impact statement will be prepared and public review will be sought. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/9.7/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inApril 8, 1977: Cranes' fate depends on Platte's flow
Cranes’ fate depends on Platte’s flow
Proposed water projects and uncontrolled pumping of groundwater for irrigation threaten the wide-flowing, flooding, living oasis that sandhill cranes call home on Nebraska’s Platte River. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/9.7/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E