When the history of the environmental movement is written, it will be found that a small band of unpaid, unsung volunteers blazed the trail. Imbued with little more than clear vision, bulldog tenacity, and a thick skin, they have taken unpopular stands in the causes loosely termed “the environment.” (To read the full text, click on […]
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Posted inJuly 7, 1972: A matter of facts!
He asked for specifics …!
Wyoming’s Governor Stanley K. Hathaway has fired verbal broadsides at environmentalists for always criticizing but never offering “specifics.” The Governor seems not to be a dedicated or consistent reader of High Country News, else he would find much food for thought therein. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/4.14/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inJuly 7, 1972: A matter of facts!
Predator control – the Cain Report
A summary of the 15 recommendations made by a federal advisory committee on predator control. Part two in a series on predator control. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/4.14/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inJune 23, 1972: Decision time for rugged land
Citizens speak out on wilderness
A letter sent by 17 men and women from Moab, Utah, to the Supervisor of the Manti-La Sal National Forest criticizes policies such as the 1872 Mining Law and advocates for wilderness designation. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/4.13/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inJune 23, 1972: Decision time for rugged land
Decision time for rugged land
From the top of Granite Peak, Montana’s highest point, the author surveys the vast rugged country that may soon be designated the Absaroka-Beartooth Wilderness. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/4.13/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inJune 23, 1972: Decision time for rugged land
Senator reviews history
The National Park Service may be going “back to the drawing board” to improve its newest wilderness proposals after a history lesson about the Wilderness Act from Senator Frank Church (D-Idaho) at a hearing before the Senate Subcommittee on Public lands. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/4.13/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inJune 9, 1972: Sulfur tax endorsed
Predator control in the decade of the environment
An overview of changing attitudes toward the predator control measures taken by ranchers and other users of public land. Part one in a series about predator control. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/4.12/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inJune 9, 1972: Sulfur tax endorsed
Sulfur tax endorsed
Condemning current environmental regulations as “slow, costly, and tortuous,” University of Minnesota economist Walter Heller has advocated a strong tax on sulfur emissions. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/4.12/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inJune 9, 1972: Sulfur tax endorsed
The powerful hate to lose
A reprinted article about Herman Werner — a wealthy Wyoming rancher who is charged with killing 363 golden eagles on his large ranch — and his efforts to fend off accusations that he has erected miles of “sheep-tight” fence, which harms antelope and other wildlife. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/4.12/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inMay 26, 1972: Western coal development moves closer to realization
Valid concerns expressed
Two anonymous federal employees tally up the total potential impacts — on water, community development, wildlife, and more — of the energy projects like the North Central Power Study project that are proposed for the Powder River Basin. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/4.11/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inMay 26, 1972: Western coal development moves closer to realization
Western coal development moves closer to realization
As Wyoming Senator Clifford Hansen pushes legislation to construct an aqueduct system that would divert water for industrial use in the Powder River Basin in Montana and Wyoming, plans for escalating extraction of coal are coming out into public view. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/4.11/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inMay 26, 1972: Western coal development moves closer to realization
Hidden Story
The Bureau of Reclamation concealed its study of the Montana-Wyoming aqueduct — a key part of the plan to radically expand coal energy production in the Powder River Basin — by distorting the Freedom of Information Act. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/4.11/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inMay 12, 1972: Storm brews over Utah
Rainbow Bridge – an objective summary
The problem of Lake Powell’s rising waters entering Rainbow Bridge National Monument are summarized and analyzed from three angles: the political/economic, the legal, and the practical. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/4.10/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inMay 12, 1972: Storm brews over Utah
Storm brews over Utah
The Bureau of Reclamation faces off with local opponents over a proposed dam that would inundate China Meadows, a choice spot in Utah’s Uinta Mountains. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/4.10/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inMay 12, 1972: Storm brews over Utah
Winning plan for a floodplain
Major flooding of the South Platte River in 1965 forced Denver residents to take a new look at their ugliest eye-sore: a 13-mile stretch of the river that has been used as a junk yard. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/4.10/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inApril 28, 1972: National Parks - what future?
National Parks – what future?
The centennial of the establishment of Yellowstone National Park is a time to assess how the national parks can be made an even more meaningful part of our personal lives, especially because they are today under siege from various quarters. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/4.9/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inApril 28, 1972: National Parks - what future?
These chiselers really work
Tobe Wilkins and Jim Adams have spent the last 17 years chiseling away at the fossilized remains of more than 200 ancient beasts embedded in a 180-foot long, 40-foot high vertical wall in Dinosaur National Monument. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/4.9/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inApril 28, 1972: National Parks - what future?
Wilderness and Multiple Use
When wilderness is brought up for discussion in private groups or at public meetings, fact and fancy mix in an improbable way. One, of the major fallacies often mentioned is that multiple use and wilderness management are at opposite ends of the management spectrum. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/4.9/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inApril 14, 1972: Huge new complex proposed
The environmental effects of nuclear power, Part 4
A nuclear scientist explains how the liquid-metal fast-breeder reactor works, and asks: is it the least of the evils? Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/4.8/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inApril 14, 1972: Huge new complex proposed
Huge new complex proposed
Reynolds Metals Co. has announced a proposal to build a uranium enrichment plant near Buffalo, Wyo., that would cost at least $2.2 billion. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/4.8/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E