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Posted inApril 6, 1992: Las Vegas: The boom craps out ... and the city has second thoughts about water

Yucca Mountain is an assault on Nevada

by Robert R. Loux

Jon Christensen’s article, “Nevada Speaks with Fissioned Tongue” (HCN, 1/10/92), seriously misrepresents the issues surrounding the debate about the proposed high-level nuclear waste site at Yucca Mountain in southern Nevada. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/24.6/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E

Posted inMarch 23, 1992: Special issue: An alternative to the bumpersticker approach to grazing

Ranching’s charismatic reformers

by Ed Marston

In Oregon, Doc and Connie Hatfield combine ecology, politics and marketing to strengthen the economics of ranching. To read this article, click the “View a PDF from the original” link below, or download the entire issue: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/24.5/download-entire-issue This article appeared in the print edition of the magazine with the headline Ranching’s charismatic reformers.

Posted inMarch 23, 1992: Special issue: An alternative to the bumpersticker approach to grazing

A neighborly approach to sustainable public-land grazing

by Ed Marston

An experiment is under way in Oregon that may be an alternative to all-out war over use of the public lands. To read this article, click the “View a PDF from the original” link below, or download the entire issue: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/24.5/download-entire-issue This article appeared in the print edition of the magazine with the headline A […]

Posted inMarch 23, 1992: Special issue: An alternative to the bumpersticker approach to grazing

Grizzlies lack enough room to roam

by Sherry Devlin

Just 44 percent of the “nuisance” grizzly bears trapped and relocated in the northern Rockies survive two years without getting into trouble again, says a wildlife biologist for the state of Montana. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/24.5/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E

Posted inFebruary 24, 1992: Sagebrush Rebellion II: Some rural counties seek to influence federal land use

Wilderness water takes another turn

by Larry Mosher

Colorado’s wilderness bill — a controversial compromise between Sen. Hank Brown and Sen. Tim Wirth — was intended to create 641,690 acres of new wilderness. Instead, the bill has become an engine pushing on Colorado’s water developers, environmentalists and bureaucrats to redefine the state’s approach to water within and outside of wilderness areas. Download entire […]

Posted inFebruary 24, 1992: Sagebrush Rebellion II: Some rural counties seek to influence federal land use

In search of sustainability

by Ed Marston

The foresters, economists, sociologists, public land managers and foundation executives at the Defining Sustainable Forestry Workshop came surprisingly close to describing what sustainable forestry might look like. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/24.3/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E

Posted inFebruary 24, 1992: Sagebrush Rebellion II: Some rural counties seek to influence federal land use

Sagebrush Rebellion II: Some rural counties seek to influence federal land use

by Florence Williams

The assumption underlying new county ordinances is that grazing permits are the “intangible” property of the permittee. Federal agencies, meanwhile, insist that grazing permits have always been a privilege, not a right. To read this article, click the “View a PDF from the original” link below, or download entire issue: https://country-survey-collabs.info/wp-content/uploads/1992/02/1992_02_24_Catron.pdf This article appeared in […]

Posted inFebruary 10, 1992: David Love: His warnings about selenium in Wyoming aren't new

Coalition seeks to stop over-cutting

by Keith Easthouse

The new coalition includes representatives of the local logging company, La Compania de Ocho, National Audubon Society, Forest Guardians, Carson Forest Watch, The Wilderness Society and Sierra Club. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/24.2/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E

Posted inFebruary 10, 1992: David Love: His warnings about selenium in Wyoming aren't new

Nevada speaks with fissioned tongue

by Jon Chistensen

The state’s political leaders are talking in ever more militant tones in their battle to keep the nation’s high-level nuclear waste out of Yucca Mountain. Yet these same politicians are the first to cry foul when anyone suggests even a temporary halt to testing nuclear weapons in the same southern Nevada desert. Download entire issue […]

Posted inJanuary 27, 1992: Nuclear Waste: In 10,000 years, how will we say 'Keep Out'?

Apaches split over nuclear waste

by Tony Davis

The marriage of progress and preservation on the 460,000-acre Mescalero reservation is threatening to crack. Tribal leaders were first in the nation to agree to study temporary storage of high-level radioactive waste from power plants. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/24.1/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E

Posted inJanuary 27, 1992: Nuclear Waste: In 10,000 years, how will we say 'Keep Out'?

Panels seek radiation warnings that will travel well through time

by Florence Williams

Thanks to federal environmental laws, the DOE must take into account the next 10 millennia when planning for the disposal of low-level radioactive waste from bomb-building. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/24.1/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E

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