Overpopulation in our national parks of the two-legged and 4-wheeled varieties threatens to destroy the very thing visitors come to see. Wilderness quality is rapidly being displaced by quantity in the growing numbers of visitors, vehicles and facilities in the parks. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/5.3/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
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Posted inJanuary 19, 1973: The crisis in energy: impact on Montana
Controversy in Jackson Hole
The congressional and presidential decision to finance a $2.2 million airport expansion to accommodate jets in Grand Teton National Park is an extension of an already flagrant violation of the park’s stated conservation policy. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/5.2/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inJanuary 19, 1973: The crisis in energy: impact on Montana
Cultural clash in canyonlands
The vast canyonlands country in southeastern Utah is both a joy and a sorrow to archaeologists — a joy because of the rich treasure of early Amerind sites and artifacts still to be found there, and a sorrow because these irreplaceable traces of aboriginal American culture are so rapidly being destroyed. Download entire issue to […]
Posted inJanuary 19, 1973: The crisis in energy: impact on Montana
The crisis in energy: impact on Montana
Nothing in recent years has stirred the people of Montana quite so much as the problems of the energy crisis — in particular, how the rapid build-up of industry around the state’s vast coal fields will change the state’s character. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/5.2/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inJanuary 5, 1973: The crisis in energy: exploiting the West
Oil shale: a problem of waste
If all goes as planned by the U.S. Department of Interior, the western fringe of the Piceance Basin in northwestern Colorado will become home to huge landfills to house the “spent shale” produced by oil shale extraction. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/5.1/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inJanuary 5, 1973: The crisis in energy: exploiting the West
The crisis in energy: exploiting the West
The coming energy crunch will cause a frenzied battle over the West’s coal, gas and oil in the name of sustaining America’s oversized appetite for energy and economic growth. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/5.1/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inJanuary 5, 1973: The crisis in energy: exploiting the West
Wild Horse Annie: a Western legend
An HCN interview with Mrs. Velma B. Johnson, a.k.a. “Wild Horse Annie,” shortly before she was appointed to the Wild Horse and Burro Advisory Board. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/5.1/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inDecember 22, 1972: A look back
A need for Indian culture
Americans are beginning to rediscover their priceless Indian heritage, a movement driven in large part by a growing ethno-ecological sense that man’s various cultures and peoples are parts of a unified whole. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/4.26/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inDecember 22, 1972: A look back
Wild Horse Annie: A Western legend
An HCN interview with Wild Horse Annie, whose discoveries about the condition of wild horses shocked her so deeply that she would dedicate her life to becoming an advocate on the horses’ behalf. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/4.26/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inDecember 8, 1972: Disaster a matter of timing
Disaster a matter of timing
Magnificent Lake Powell in southern Utah is only a scant few years old, but already two major disasters have overtaken it, and a third hangs ominously over its headwaters. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/4.25/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inDecember 8, 1972: Disaster a matter of timing
Sheeptight fencing kills antelope
Blizzards across Wyoming’s Red Desert in the early winter of 1971 pushed antelope herds against impenetrable fences, and thousands of antelope perished. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/4.25/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inNovember 24, 1972: The Shame of It!
Eagle killers being fined
Legal gyrations continue in cases concerning mass eagle slaughters in Colorado and Wyoming. However, convictions, such as they are, are now being made. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/4.24/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inNovember 24, 1972: The Shame of It!
Oil shale development: A Colorado perspective
The second in a two-part series about the ECO Oil Shale Study Group at Colorado State University, interspersed with remarks by an attorney for oil shale developer Atlantic Richfield Company. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/4.24/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inNovember 24, 1972: The Shame of It!
The Shame of It!
The dead eagles of Wyoming still wait for justice to be done. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/4.24/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inNovember 10, 1972: Oil shale development: A Colorado perspective
A look at the spill
The same day that Verne Huser was appointed executive director of the Utah Environmental Center, a 16-inch oil pipeline ruptured, spilling oil into the San Juan River. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/4.23/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inNovember 10, 1972: Oil shale development: A Colorado perspective
Oil shale development: A Colorado perspective
The first in a multi-article series on what oil shale is an what it portends for the West, exploring the methods of recovery, the extent and location of the resource, the role of the federal government, and more. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/4.23/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inNovember 10, 1972: Oil shale development: A Colorado perspective
The wild Missouri — a decision
For more than a year, a team of federal and state officials has studied whether to include a section of Montana’s Missouri River in the Wild and Scenic Rivers System, and now opens the issue to public comment. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/4.23/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inOctober 27, 1972: Canyon highway a disaster
Canyon highway a disaster
A highway proposed for a scenic canyon stretch of Wyoming’s Clarks Fork of the Yellowstone River could drastically alter the canyon environment. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/4.22/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inOctober 27, 1972: Canyon highway a disaster
Into the La Garita
The second part of a two-part series about a backpack trip into Colorado’s La Garita Wilderness. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/4.22/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inOctober 27, 1972: Canyon highway a disaster
Predator control in Oregon
Analysis of the Oregon Game Commission’s proposed plan for predator management. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/4.22/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E