The proposed Congressional “giveaway” of 185,000 acres of Grand Canyon National Park and other public lands has been challenged by a coalition of six national conservation groups. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/6.19/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
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Posted inSeptember 13, 1974: So rich a solitude
Confessions of a recycler
One person’s view of experiences drawn from a recycling program, pointing out major problems and giving tips to others who are interested in recycling. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/6.18/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inSeptember 13, 1974: So rich a solitude
So rich a solitude
The conflict over logging on Arizona’s Escudilla Mountain is headed to the courts unless the Forest Service, now mired in increasingly poor public relations statewide, reopens the possibility of a settlement. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/6.18/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inSeptember 13, 1974: So rich a solitude
Three ways to pave a Colorado canyon
Connecting four-lane Interstate 70 through the winding, narrow 13 miles of Glenwood Canyon is enough to give highway engineers nightmares. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/6.18/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inAugust 30, 1974: Coal conflict on Tongue River
Coal conflict on Tongue River
The Decker-Birney Resource Study has identified 285,000 acres of superior coal reserves along the Tongue River in southern Montana, stirring up opposition from local ranchers. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/6.17/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inAugust 30, 1974: Coal conflict on Tongue River
Naturalist Adolph Murie dies
During his 75 years, Adolph Murie wandered through the wilderness from Guatemala to Alaska, living with wolves on Mount McKinley, moose on Isle Royale, elk in the Olympics, and coyotes in Yellowstone. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/6.17/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inAugust 30, 1974: Coal conflict on Tongue River
Population — a perplexing problem
I submit that perhaps in our zeal to prevent the extinction of threatened species we have not sufficiently evaluated the seriousness of the threat to ourselves — Homo sapiens. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/6.17/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inAugust 2, 1974: Has the second home peak passed?
Dorothy Bradley, legislator for the land
Montana State Representative Dorothy Bradley, a Democrat, had everything going against her when she first decided to run for the legislature on Earth Day in the spring of 1970. “I was the wrong age, wrong sex, and wrong party,” she says. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/6.16/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inAugust 2, 1974: Has the second home peak passed?
Has the second home peak passed?
Land use planning has entered a new phase of complexity as tight money has slowed the pace of condominium and second home development. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/6.16/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inAugust 2, 1974: Has the second home peak passed?
Independence spells push for shale
With the federal oil shale prototype program still in its infancy and the first leased tracts barely off the auction block, it now appears that pressure is building to prematurely push oil shale into a full scale industry. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/6.16/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inJuly 19, 1974: Coal shifts to West
Coal shifts to West
A curious thing is happening on the way to energy independence: an east-to-west shift in coal production is actually going to be putting western coal into power plants in West Virginia and Ohio. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/6.15/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inJuly 19, 1974: Coal shifts to West
In bondage to the moguls
Eastern power utilities have been telling the press that they are being forced to pay high prices for coal from nearby sources, and that they can buy Western coal and ship it across the country more cheaply. But then they file monthly reports with the Federal Power Commission that tell a different story. Download entire […]
Posted inJuly 19, 1974: Coal shifts to West
Mitchell’s mountains
Finis Mitchell, whose family came to Wyoming with a span of mules, a wagon, and a cow in 1906, has climbed 195 mountains, including Gannett Peak, the tallest point in Wyoming. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/6.15/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inJuly 5, 1974: The Great Balancing Act
Egan O’Connor and nuclear pollution
Through a group called the Task Force Against Nuclear Pollution, Egan O’Connor has helped locate, computerize, and wave in front of Congress the names of nearly 81,000 Americans who want to turn off nuclear fission. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/6.14/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inJuly 5, 1974: The Great Balancing Act
Governor advocates slow growth
Colorado Gov. John Vanderhoof is opposed to construction of the Two Forks Dam on the South Platte River, advocating a policy of wise growth rather than a sudden expansion of Denver’s water supply. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/6.14/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inJuly 5, 1974: The Great Balancing Act
The Great Balancing Act
Plans to extract oil shale from northwestern Colorado raise concerns about how to balance energy development with efforts to address social impacts, air pollution, oil shale tailings, and impacts to water and wildlife. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/6.14/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inJune 21, 1974: It's chicken power tomorrow
It’s chicken power tomorrow
Digesting human, animal and vegetable wastes to produce methane is sure to become and important source of energy in the future. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/6.16-1/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inJune 21, 1974: It's chicken power tomorrow
North Dakota guards water
North Dakota Gov. Arthur A. Link and the State Water Commission have put a “conditional moratorium” on coal development in that state. Two power utilities have requested 15,000 acre-feet of water annually for a proposed coal-fired power plant near Underwood, N. Dakota. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/6.16-1/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inJune 21, 1974: It's chicken power tomorrow
Rehabilitation of Western coal lands
An edited version of a summary of a report, Rehabilitation Potential of Western Coal Lands, published by the National Academy of Sciences. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/6.16-1/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inJune 7, 1974: Energy boom -- plans and payments
Energy boom — plans and payments
A look at how Montana and Wyoming towns booming from energy development — Rock Springs, Gillette, Hanna, Colstrip, Lame Deer — are responding to pressures on their infrastructure, schools, police, health services, and social fabric. (To read the full text, click on the “View a PDF from the original” link below, or download a PDF of […]