Essays

Considering the educational priorities of most forestry schools, it is not surprising that our national forests are badly mismanaged as ecosystems. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/17.18/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E

If dogs were totally incompatible with wilderness living, our ancestors wouldn’t have bothered having them around back in the days before concrete and the Gross National Product. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/17.4/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E

Don Snow recounts a day fishing in Montana’s Bitterroot Mountains. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/13.18/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E

Horace Greeley, best know for saying ‘Go West, young man,” also said “Nature offers us good bargains, but she does not trust and will not be cheated.” Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/13.7/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E

Nowhere in human history has fiction so outdistanced fact as in the lore of the wolf. Along with spiders, snakes and sharks, Carl Jung lists the wolf as generating almost universal fear in the human psyche. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/11.24/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E

The quiet sounds of the sage grouse cannot be heard in places where men talk of energy crises, tradeoffs, balance of payments or national commitment. The burden of all this is too much for public servants to bear alone; now you share it. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/7.21/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E

Entering a blue heron rookery is like stepping back into prehistoric times with great, reptilian birds. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/7.15/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E

The Gila Wilderness — the world’s oldest formally protected wilderness area — is an area of startling contrasts. In the canyons, brilliant red-flowered cacti bloom from crevices in the walls and purple violets flower in the damp maple, alder and oak streamside forests. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/7.7/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E

The author recalls a day spent amid the clean air, silence, and wildlife of Colorado’s Piceance Basin — an area slated for oil shale development. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/5.22/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E

We cannot forever live off the land. We must begin now to live with the land. We have gained much that is valuable, but we have lost much that is irreplaceable. Only recently have we begun to realize the cost of what has been gained. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/5.3/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E

I always wanted to do one of those new-fangled  scientific studies on something. So, the adventurous side of my psyche asked, “why not do the grizzly bear?” Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/4.19/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E

With its beginning on the western slope of the Continental Divide and draining the Teton, Salt River and Wind River Ranges, the Snake River is unique–not so much in its geography, which is spectacular, but in its fishing. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/4.15/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E

The author floats Idaho’s Salmon River — also called the River of No Return. Part four in a multi-article series about floating the West’s rivers. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/3.14/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E

The popularity of backpacking has much to do with the desire for fresh miles of mountains, uncluttered by automobile roads … An overview of backpacks and other equipment, backcountry cooking, and more. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/3.13/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E

The author floats the Grand Canyon of the Colorado River: “As we would approach a rapid, even a minor one, we would all grow apprehensive …” Part two in a multi-article series on floating the West’s rivers. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/3.12/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E

A history of the abandoned kilns located along Idaho State Highway 28 near Birch Creek, where hundreds of woodsmen and kiln workers used to make charcoal for a nearby smelter. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/3.8/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E

Description of a trip to the proposed Gros Ventre Wilderness Area in Wyoming. “The roar of the plunging water provided a perfect tranquilizer for sleep the ensuing two nights.” Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/3.6/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E

Rain, squalls, winds and sometimes snow and cold herald the winter months along the Oregon coast. And once again it’s steelhead fishing time, the time of year these great fish come from the ocean on their annual spawning migrations. Part one of a three-part series on steelhead fishing. Download entire issue to view this article: […]

Colorado offers plenty of recreation and relaxation to satisfy the active outdoor sportsman or the spectator who want to take it easy. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/2.35/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E

I had spotted a large dark animal moving along Paddock Creek which at first appeared to be a buffalo. However, after examining it with binoculars, I quickly saw that it was a horse, and further up the creek were seven more. Not just horses however, but wild horses! Download entire issue to view this article: […]