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
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Posted inMarch 31, 1972: Aquatic deserts on the march
Aquatic deserts on the march
The portion of the Logan River in Utah’s Cache Valley was a brown trout haven — until the Army Corps of Engineers dredged the stream for flood control, removing much of the vegetation that provided ideal habitat. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/4.7/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inMarch 31, 1972: Aquatic deserts on the march
Sulfur tax proposal needs strengthening
The Coalition to Tax Pollution, an organization of major environmental groups, has noted with pleasure that the federal government has unveiled a long-awaited proposal to tax sulfur pollution. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/4.7/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inMarch 31, 1972: Aquatic deserts on the march
The environmental effects of nuclear power, Part 3
A nuclear scientist explains: the environmental impacts of nuclear power fall into two broad categories — those caused by escaped radioactivity, and those caused by the release of waste heat. In the coming years at least, the most harmful impacts will be from waste heat. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/4.7/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inMarch 17, 1972: Last chance for wilderness
Last chance for wilderness
The Wilderness Act set a 1974 deadline for considering all remaining primitive and roadless areas for wilderness designation, and as that deadline approaches, controversy is stirring in the Rocky Mountains about how to treat those wild lands. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/4.6/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inMarch 17, 1972: Last chance for wilderness
States’ rights battle looms
Sportsmen in Wyoming and at least nine other western states are currently facing a battle with various individuals and lobbies who want a national hunting license that would charge the same fee for residents and non-residents. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/4.6/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inMarch 17, 1972: Last chance for wilderness
Tribute to a conservationist
Guy M. Brandborg of Hamilton, Mont., is a forester of the old school. He is one of that breed which had as its contemporaries such giants as Aldo Leopold and Bob Marshall, and he may one day be remembered as one with them. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/4.6/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inMarch 3, 1972: Justice is prostituted! Is Werner to go free?
Composting does wonders
Landscape gardener Stan Bulpitt is showing the way toward a compost-conscious America solving its waste problems, enriching its soils, and conserving precious water. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/4.5/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inMarch 3, 1972: Justice is prostituted! Is Werner to go free?
Justice is prostituted! Is Werner to go free?
It has now been seven months since helicopter pilot James Vogan went before a Senate subcommittee and revealed the illegal deaths of hundreds of eagles on Herman Werners’s Wyoming ranch — what has happened to justice? Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/4.5/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inMarch 3, 1972: Justice is prostituted! Is Werner to go free?
The environmental effects of nuclear power
The insatiable demand for electricity has put increasing emphasis on nuclear energy. But will proliferating nuclear power plants raise radiation to dangerously high levels? How will the nuclear waste be disposed of? An atomic scientist answers these questions and more in a multi-article series. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/4.5/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inFebruary 18, 1972: Montana air bartered
Poisoning banned!
Poisoning banned! The news burst like a bombshell over the rangelands of the West. And repercussions are still echoing from Montana to Texas. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/4.4/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inFebruary 18, 1972: Montana air bartered
Montana air bartered
Montana Governor Forrest Anderson effectively sabotaged that state’s air pollution program by refusing to sign the proposed implementation of federal standards. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/4.4/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inFebruary 18, 1972: Montana air bartered
Nixon nixes clear-cut ban
The Nixon administration went against the advice of its own environmental experts and refused to sign an executive order regulating clear-cutting. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/4.4/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inFebruary 4, 1972: Game herds threatened
Game herds threatened
Big game herds, hit with the harsh winter of 1971-72 and faced with steady shrinkage of winter range, continue to decline. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/4.3/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inFebruary 4, 1972: Game herds threatened
Polar bears are endangered species
Once the inhabitant of a bleak, frigid land seldom intruded upon by man, the polar bear is now being threatened by modern man’s insatiable appetite for energy. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/4.3/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inFebruary 4, 1972: Game herds threatened
Population growth and America’s future
An abridged text from an interim report by the Commission on Population Growth and American Future. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/4.3/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inJanuary 21, 1972: Timber industry "calls shots"
Hearing held on spraying
At a hearing held in Casper, Wyoming, the Bureau of Land Management found that rancher Van Irvine could lose federal grazing rights if charges of illegal and unauthorized sagebrush spraying are proved against him. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/4.2/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inJanuary 21, 1972: Timber industry "calls shots"
Population growth and America’s future
An abridged text of the first interim report by the Commission on Population Growth and the American Future, presented by High Country News under the belief that a national population policy is a prerequisite to solving environmental problems. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/4.2/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inJanuary 21, 1972: Timber industry "calls shots"
Timber industry “calls shots”
Senator Gale McGee, D-Wyo., responding to news that President Nixon has killed a proposed executive order aimed at tighter regulation of clear cutting on public lands, has charged that “large timber interests continue to call the shots for the Nixon Administration on national forest management policies.” Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/4.2/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inJanuary 7, 1972: Huge power complex planned
Huge power complex planned
The power industry could build at least five 10,000-megawatt coal-fired power plants in the Powder River Basin of Montana and Wyoming, with staggering social, economic and environmental implications. (To read the full text, click on the “View a PDF from the original” link below, or download a PDF of the entire issue: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/4.1/download-entire-issue.) This article appeared […]