When I heard that former National Park Service Director William Penn Molt died last month, my first thought was, “At least he lived long enough to see a wolf in Yellowstone.” Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/24.19/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
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Posted inOctober 19, 1992: Water & Power
Water: Fear of Supreme Court leads tribes to accept an adverse decision
A decision by the Wind River Indian Reservation tribes not to appeal an adverse Wyoming Supreme Court water decision in June signals — at least for the moment — an end to litigation launched nearly 16 years ago by the state of Wyoming. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/24.19/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inOctober 5, 1992: Western voters face clear choices
Miners stake out a golf course in Idaho
Members of the Idaho Conservation League pounded a wooden stake into the grass of a posh golf course here to prove that even Sun Valley resorts are vulnerable to mineral exploration under the nation’s old mining law. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/24.18/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inOctober 5, 1992: Western voters face clear choices
Western voters face clear choices
The 1992 election will redraw the West’s political map, but the new shape is almost impossible to predict. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/24.18/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inSeptember 21, 1992: Battle for the Bones
Radioactive dollars draw tribes
The U.S. Department of Energy continues to dangle the carrot of nuclear waste storage, along with money to study the idea, before the hungry eyes of Indian tribes and rural counties in the West. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/24.17/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inSeptember 21, 1992: Battle for the Bones
Indian land claims deserve our support
The presence of the 24,000-acre Pueblo of Sandia prevents the city of Albuquerque from sprawling into the nearby foothills to the south. Nevertheless, the environmental community in northern new Mexico is fighting the tribe’s attempt to reclaim its land from the U.S. Forest Service. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/24.17/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inSeptember 21, 1992: Battle for the Bones
Battle for the Bones
Today, across the West, scientists, rockhounds and those who collect for profit are battling over the bones of the 100-million-year-old wildlife of the Mesozoic. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/24.17/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inSeptember 7, 1992: Developer builds in a wilderness
Yellowstone forces to shoot rogue tourists after relocation fails
National Park Service officials today confirmed reports of the shooting of two tourists in Yellowstone Park early this season. The shootings were authorized under a newly implemented policy to protect bears. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/24.16/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inSeptember 7, 1992: Developer builds in a wilderness
Should the ‘Frank’ be one forest?
An influential congressman’s proposal to create the nation’s first all-wilderness national forest in central Idaho has the Forest Service scrambling. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/24.16/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inSeptember 7, 1992: Developer builds in a wilderness
Developer builds in a wilderness
Pulling his horse up short, U.S. Forest Service District Ranger Steve Posey turns to watch a helicopter fly overhead with another load of concrete and building materials dangling from its belly … Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/24.16/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inAugust 24, 1992: Leave it to beaver
Happy ending to Utah grazing conflict
After nearly two years of negotiations, a large portion of the Escalante River drainage in Glen Canyon National Recreation Area has been permanently closed to grazing. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/24.15/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inAugust 24, 1992: Leave it to beaver
Let’s stop dirt-bike noise and ‘the-end-is-here’ noise
“Wise-users” may not have much influence, but they should give environmentalists pause to reconsider their long-run strategies. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/24.15/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inAugust 24, 1992: Leave it to beaver
Leave it to beaver
Beavers on a ranch in Idaho have turned a previously gouged creek bottom into a wetland brimming with wildlife and produced a new pasture for the ranch’s livestock. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/24.15/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inAugust 10, 1992: Arizona's water disaster
Everyone feels free to tell the farmer how to farm
For every farmer there is the big question: How to farm? Every square foot of earth is different. No farmer’s experience will be exactly like any other. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/24.14/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inAugust 10, 1992: Arizona's water disaster
Lawsuit seeks to force logging to prevent fires
Local governments in logging communities of northwestem Montana have joined a lawsuit that seeks to force tree-cutting in the Kootenai National Forest. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/24.14/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inAugust 10, 1992: Arizona's water disaster
Arizona’s water disaster
The $4 billion Central Arizona Project project provides water, but few can afford to buy it. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/24.14/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inJuly 13, 1992: Special issue: Part 2 of The Electric Revolution
Pressure builds to reform the West’s power establishment
The region’s electric system was built on vast resources, federal subsidies and freedom from environmental regulations. Now, the industry may be forced to change its strategy — but not without a fight. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/24.13/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inJuly 13, 1992: Special issue: Part 2 of The Electric Revolution
PacifiCorp bets on coal, and against efficiency
One of the West’s largest utilities may be betting that the future lies with coal-fired power plants rather than efficiency and alternative fuels. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/24.13/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inJuly 13, 1992: Special issue: Part 2 of The Electric Revolution
Wyoming tribes lose again in court
The Wyoming Supreme Court has rejected a plea to reconsider its 3-2 ruling that restricts the Northern Arapaho and Eastern Shoshone tribes’ use of “future” water and makes the state the administrator of federal reserved-water rights. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/24.13/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inJuly 13, 1992: Special issue: Part 2 of The Electric Revolution
Power could come from a shared vision
These two special issues of High Country News say that we have overbuilt our electric power system by up to five times. We could shut down up to four out of five power plants, coal mines, and hydroelectric dams while providing the same services and a higher quality of life. Download entire issue to view […]