Essays

In Yellowstone, managerial control is not love; biology and philosophy, to say nothing of politics, economics, theology and the rest, ought to cooperate to form an ethics that seeks to appreciate, rather than to manipulate. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/23.10/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E

The Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem is landscape that loves bison, bear, elk, deer, moose, coyote, wolf, rabbit, badger, marmot, squirrel, swan, crane, eagle, raven, pelican, red-tail, bufflehead, goldeneye, teal, and merganser. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/23.10/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E

The National Energy Strategy, revealed earlier this year, is not really an energy strategy at all. It is an economic program, aimed toward the short-term benefit of the domestic oil industry and other existing energy corporations. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/23.9/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E

This essay takes as its starting point the blowing dust of March 1988, a virtual dust bowl over the eastern half of the Dakotas. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/23.4/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E

The more one becomes involved in conscious law-breaking, whether nonviolent civil disobedience or monkeywrenching, the more one needs to be scrupulously deliberate about doing so. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/23.3/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E

A posh development near Santa Fe riles locals. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/23.2/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E

This reader, for one, does not agree with HCN’s analysis of why overgrazing has occurred and the proper course for resolving its tragic environmental legacy. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/22.24/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E

The Forest Service is becoming experienced in listening to messages it would not have chosen to hear a few years ago. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/22.19/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E

Harold L. Ickes, President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s Secretary of the Interior, once described himself to a congressional committee as being “as hard-boiled a conservationist as there is in this country.” Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/22.19/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E

If life were intended to be simple, God would not have invented Harold L. Ickes, Franklin D, Roosevelt’s spiky Secretary of the Interior, who was not one man, but several. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/22.18/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E

We are dying today in droves while liberal Americans profit in the billion-dollar-a-year New Age industry, which sells overpriced and artificial Thunderbird shields and sexy doeskin dresses to bored, rich cosmopolitans. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/22.17/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E

We are blessed with an astounding base of natural assets: clean air, good water, open land and the many sturdy folk who live here. But instead of feeding, repairing and taking care of these natural assets, we have been running them down in a way that would destroy any automobile or business in very little […]

The workers who came to Wyoming in the 1970s to make unmentionable riches throwing chain on oil rigs are now working at minimum wage “service” jobs in the toadying tourism industry. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/22.13/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E

Terminology has a big influence on our way of thinking and the way we perceive issues. It also affects the way we allot funds for public lands. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/22.7/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E

Even as McClure stood firm on his values, he tried to work with his adversaries, and for that reason he was effective on many issues. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/22.2/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E

“What I didn’t know about then was the peculiar world of bureaucracy. It thinks even nature must bend to what bureaucrats decide is best.” Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/22.2/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E

Those of us who are still here — the survivors in the wake of the Bust — share a bond we may not realize: We have paid a price to be able to remain. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/21.21/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E

Most of the region’s needs, including protection of its scenic grandeur from regional haze, acid pollution damage to high country lakes and streams, and urban carbon monoxide and particulate pollution, draw little attention in Washington. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/21.19/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E

Once, when America was young, we knew why we had public lands. Now that America is mature, few of us even know we have them. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/21.16/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E