Don Erickson is a modest, cautious man. These qualities set him apart from most other solar energy equipment manufacturers eager to build a market for a new product. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/8.19/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
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Posted inSeptember 10, 1976: Women face boom town isolation
Can funds be found for the unhunted?
State agencies are considering a tax for non-game wildlife programs and other strategies to deal with the problem of lack of funding for managing non-game species of wildlife. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/8.18/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inSeptember 10, 1976: Women face boom town isolation
John Wesley Powell explores West
Though John Wesley Powell had enlightened ideas — such as dividing the West into states based on watershed boundaries — most of the reforms he proposed weren’t accepted during his lifetime. The second in a two-part series by Peter Wild. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/8.18/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inSeptember 10, 1976: Women face boom town isolation
Women face boom town isolation
In remote Jeffrey City, Wyoming, owned and operated by Western Nuclear, some women are determined to get out and participate in activities while others prefer the refuge of their homes. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/8.18/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inAugust 27, 1976: John Wesley Powell tests El Dorado
John Wesley Powell tests El Dorado
John Wesley Powell told the hard truth about the West, but his advice for a more considerate approach to westward expansion was widely scorned and largely rejected. The first in a two-part series by Peter Wild. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/8.17/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inAugust 27, 1976: John Wesley Powell tests El Dorado
Sh-h-h, the butterflies have something to say
Until recently everyone worried about whooping cranes, whales, and bald eagles. Now, butterflies are the first insects to join the ranks of the U.S. Endangered Species List. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/8.17/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inAugust 27, 1976: John Wesley Powell tests El Dorado
States flunk EPA air quality standards test
Of the Northern Plains and Rocky Mountain states, only North Dakota received Environmental Protection Agency approval of the state’s plans for attaining and maintaining national ambient air quality standards. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/8.17/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inJuly 30, 1976: Shell says, 'We'll plan -- our way'
Hope remains for caribou
Some experts think Alaska’s seemingly endless hordes of caribou can survive the pipelines, roads, and spreading civilization which gas and oil development has brought to the Far North. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/8.16/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inJuly 30, 1976: Shell says, 'We'll plan -- our way'
Interior to designate grizzly critical habitat
The threat of the federal government designating parts of Idaho, Montana, and Wyoming as grizzly bear critical habitat has some people more frightened than if they had actually met one of the awesome creatures on the trail. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/8.16/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inJuly 30, 1976: Shell says, 'We'll plan -- our way'
Shell says, ‘We’ll plan — our way’
Residents of the tiny mountain community of Shell, Wyoming, emerged from an unlikely planning meeting with smiles on their faces, having created a land-use plan that apparently satisfied even those who were most opposed. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/8.16/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inJuly 16, 1976: Northern Cheyenne want Class I air
Texaco gasification effort raised citizen eyebrows
A decision by the U.S. Energy Research and Development Administration to exclude WYOSNGAS — a consortium of utilities, natural gas companies, and others — from a coal-to-gas demonstration program climaxed an eventful year for Wyoming’s Powder River Basin residents. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/8.15/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inJuly 16, 1976: Northern Cheyenne want Class I air
BLM caught in multiple use bind
Conflict over the Challis Planning Unit in east-central Idaho, managed by the Bureau of Land Management, is an example of the difficulties faced by that agency when it tries to balance the demands of multiple user groups. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/8.15/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inJuly 16, 1976: Northern Cheyenne want Class I air
Northern Cheyenne want Class I air
The Northern Cheyenne Indian tribe in southern Montana has become the first land manager to ask the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to allow it to keep its air clean with a Class I designation, which would affect the planned expansion of the Colstrip coal-fired power plant. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/8.15/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inJuly 2, 1976: San Luis Valley shows rural ingenuity
Dams take their toll
Each successive dam that has been built in the Columbia River and its tributaries has posed new problems for the salmon and steelhead that return to the streams each year to spawn. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/8.14/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inJuly 2, 1976: San Luis Valley shows rural ingenuity
San Luis Valley shows rural ingenuity
Residents of southern Colorado’s San Luis Valley aren’t waiting for federal or state lawmakers to solve their energy problems. They have taken the matter into their own hands, and have several dozen working solar systems as proof of their success. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/8.14/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inJuly 2, 1976: San Luis Valley shows rural ingenuity
What ever happened to the federal land use bill?
David Calfee, an Environmental Policy Center lobbyist for the federal land use planning bill that narrowly failed in the U.S. House of Representatives in 1975, gives insight into what caused the effort to falter. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/8.14/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inJune 18, 1976: An invitation to a very strange place
An invitation to a very strange place
Wyoming’s Red Desert, full of grotesque geologic structures and thousands of greasewood-studded lake beds that dry to great expanses of red crust, is a strange place in need of defenders. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/8.13/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inJune 18, 1976: An invitation to a very strange place
Dick Randall: a life with coyotes
Dick Randall, who grew up in Wyoming’s wide open spaces and at one time in his life shot hundreds of coyotes from a plane, is now an outspoken opponent of predator control. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/8.13/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inJune 18, 1976: An invitation to a very strange place
Fences can devastate deer, antelope
In northwestern Colorado, the Bureau of Land Management may have known about fences deadly to antelope and other wildlife but did nothing to correct the problem, an indication of a larger problem across the West. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/8.13/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inJune 4, 1976: Designating wilderness -- asking for destruction?
AERO dramatizes alternative energy
With its New Western Energy Show, Montana-based Alternative Energy Resources Organization spreads the solar and wind gospel — old Western medicine man style. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/8.12/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E