Politics

The Colorado Open Space Council is taking political organizing seriously after Colorado environmentalists were overrun by Denver Water Board’s plan to divert water from the state’s Western slope in order to feed Denver’s growth. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/6.2/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E

Colorado Open Space Council president Vim Wright was moved to enter the environmental movement by a fascination and appreciation for nature. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/5.24/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E

Orrin H. Bonney is one of Wyoming’s twentieth century mountain men. His love of Wyoming’s high country has led to an intimate knowledge of the mountains few modern men can match. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/5.21/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E

Ouray County Plaindealer editor Joyce Jorgenson’s biggest battle has been fighting a power package designed by Kemmerer Coal Company of Wyoming. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/5.17/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E

Ernie Day fell in love with the White Clouds high mountain country of central Idaho about 10 years ago but at that time he never dreamed his love affair would square him off against the second largest mining company in the United States, or put him in the thick of an Idaho gubernatorial election. Download […]

Volunteers-In-Parks at Grand Teton National Park help over-worked rangers with a variety of jobs in return for Park Service-provided lodging and $3 per day food allowance. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/4.21/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E

Claude Olson, a weatherbeaten South Dakotan who runs a 28,000-acre ranch, shares his recipes for barbequed beef, as well as his philosophy that he’d “like to prove that it is possible to live your natural lifetime without being subsidized by the taxpayers.” Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/4.17/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E

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

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

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

Howard Thom, an oil pumper at the refinery in Laurel, Montana, and his brother Chick have spent hundreds of hours and hiked thousands of miles mapping potential boundaries for the proposed Absoroka-Beartooth Wilderness. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/2.33/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E

Joe Walsh of Lusk, Wyoming, has three warehouses full of rocks and fossils, making him perhaps the mountain west’s most acquisitive rockhound. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/2.24/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E

Bilford Foster, a lapidarist in Lander, Wyoming, recounts how he became well-known for his jade jewelry. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/2.19/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E