In the process of writing a master plan for Yosemite National Park, the Park Service has scrapped the usual approach of holding local public hearings, and is instead hosting small workshops in major cities across the country. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/7.15/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
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Posted inJuly 18, 1975: Wilderness endangered by overuse
Wilderness endangered by overuse
Most people believe wilderness should be left alone. But as more and more people use it, active management becomes necessary. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/7.15/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inJuly 4, 1975: Energy conservation: Belt-tightening, leak-plugging, new technology
BLM grazing suit foes reach agreement
Environmental groups and the Bureau of Land Management have reached an agreement for the preparation of local environmental impact statements in livestock grazing on over 150 million acres of public lands in 11 Western states. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/7.14/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inJuly 4, 1975: Energy conservation: Belt-tightening, leak-plugging, new technology
Northern Plains coal suit most important battle front
The federal government is likely to ask the Supreme Court to allow resumption of federal Powder River Basin coal development while it appeals last month’s court decision freezing that activity. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/7.14/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inJuly 4, 1975: Energy conservation: Belt-tightening, leak-plugging, new technology
Slowing energy growth gives us time to choose
Can you imagine a U.S. energy future which doesn’t require immediate and massive commitments to western coal and oil shale development, nuclear power, offshore oil or foreign imports? Such a future is possible, according to the Ford Foundation’s Energy Policy Project. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/7.14/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inJune 20, 1975: 'Irrigation water' all goes to industry
‘Irrigation water’ all goes to industry
Although Wyoming’s Fontenelle Reservoir was built under pretense of providing water mostly for irrigation, it is useless for agriculture — and may have been intended all along to serve industry. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/7.13/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inJune 20, 1975: 'Irrigation water' all goes to industry
Is the Sierra Club in the national interest?
A public debate in Casper, Wyoming, this month focused on an oil man’s query: Are the energy-related policies of the Sierra Club in the national interest? Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/7.13/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inJune 6, 1975: Game range transfer threat to wildlife?
Who owns the West’s water?
Tight competition for water in the West is forcing the U.S. government to assert its rights under the federal water reservation doctrine, which maintains that the federal government reserved all the water necessary to operate Indian reservations, national forests, national parks, and oil reserves. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/7.12/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inJune 6, 1975: Game range transfer threat to wildlife?
Charlie Scott: from Wyoming to Washington D.C. (and back again)
Charlie Scott, a rancher south of Casper Mountain in Wyoming, challenged himself as a bureaucrat in Washington D.C. for five years, but is pleased to be back in the West. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/7.12/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inJune 6, 1975: Game range transfer threat to wildlife?
Game range transfer threat to wildlife?
Debate follows the decision to transfer three wildlife ranges — the Kofa Game Range in Arizona, the Charles Sheldon Antelope Range in Nevada, and the Charles M. Russell National Wildlife Range in Montana — to sole management by the Bureau of Land Management, after years of dual management with the Fish and Wildlife Service. Download […]
Posted inMay 23, 1975: Ski Yellowstone forces choice
Escudilla battle eco-tactics explored
An update on Arizona conservationists’ fight to save the state’s third highest peak, Escudilla Mountain, from logging, with comments from local citizen activists on their tactics. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/7.11/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inMay 23, 1975: Ski Yellowstone forces choice
Ski Yellowstone forces choice
The Montana Wilderness Association proposes an alternative to Ski Yellowstone, a ski area and real estate development that would bring clearcut ski runs and hundreds of condos to the Hebgen Lake area near Yellowstone National Park. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/7.11/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inMay 23, 1975: Ski Yellowstone forces choice
Utahn fights to save southwestern canyons
When conservationists get together to talk shop, June Viavant talks canyons. The Escalante Canyon, in particular, has been her obsession since the ’60s. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/7.11/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inMay 9, 1975: Southwestern cultures collide
Laney Hicks keeps Sierra Club on front page
Laney Hicks, the Northern Plains Representative of the Sierra Club, has made good on her goal of getting good press coverage. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/7.10/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inMay 9, 1975: Southwestern cultures collide
Southwestern cultures collide
The Four Corners power plant is a monument of the Navajo Nation’s collision of cultures: the traditional ways that respect the land and the intruding pressure of technology and growth. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/7.10/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inMay 9, 1975: Southwestern cultures collide
Strip mining bill heads towards uncertain future on Ford’s desk
After compromises were made to a first strip mining bill, which President Gerald Ford vetoed last year, a second version awaits Ford’s decision. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/7.10/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inApril 25, 1975: Who profits from our coal?
Montana levies nation’s highest coal tax
The Montana legislature has passed what is probably the highest tax on coal in the nation — 30% on the sale price of subbituminous coal and 20% on the sale price of lignite. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/7.9/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inApril 25, 1975: Who profits from our coal?
Washington solons direct a few energy dollars toward the sun
The Energy Research and Development Administration has taken preliminary steps toward creating a small, solar energy pilot plant in the southwestern U.S. by 1980. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/7.9/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inApril 25, 1975: Who profits from our coal?
Who profits from our coal?
During the past 20 years federal incompetence has allowed billions of tons of public coal to fall into the hands of the corporate giants of the energy industry. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/7.9/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inApril 11, 1975: Ford taps Stan Hathaway for Interior
Ford taps Stan Hathaway for Interior
To understand newly appointed Secretary of the Interior Stan Hathaway, one must understand the history of Wyoming. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/7.8/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E