Politics

Ed Dobson wanted to be a baseball player, and later, a sports broadcaster. But a hike to the Grand Canyon clinched his future in the West, and he now runs a traveling show about the ills of strip mining. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/7.8/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E

Peter and Katherine Montague are dedicated to dissolving the reticence that has traditionally characterized Western towns, and have been building an “information bank” in the Southern Rockies. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/7.4/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E

Jim Connor, a planner-coordinator for the Bridger-Teton National Forest, softens the blows from environmentalists and industry. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/6.24/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E

Despite his ranch duties and his job as chairman of the Wyoming group of the Sierra Club, Art Fawcett still finds time to add to an impressive collection of wildflower and wildlife photos and participate in local community life. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/6.20/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E

During his 75 years, Adolph Murie wandered through the wilderness from Guatemala to Alaska, living with wolves on Mount McKinley, moose on Isle Royale, elk in the Olympics, and coyotes in Yellowstone. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/6.17/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E

Montana State Representative Dorothy Bradley, a Democrat, had everything going against her when she first decided to run for the legislature on Earth Day in the spring of 1970. “I was the wrong age, wrong sex, and wrong party,” she says. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/6.16/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E

Finis Mitchell, whose family came to Wyoming with a span of mules, a wagon, and a cow in 1906, has climbed 195 mountains, including Gannett Peak, the tallest point in Wyoming. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/6.15/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E

Through a group called the Task Force Against Nuclear Pollution, Egan O’Connor has helped locate, computerize, and wave in front of Congress the names of nearly 81,000 Americans who want to turn off nuclear fission. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/6.14/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E

Carolyn and Irv Alderson, owners and operators of the Bones Brothers Ranch in Birney, Mont., could benefit from mining coal on their property, but say “in the end the productivity of the land is the only material thing on this earth that can be left for the future.” Download entire issue to view this article: […]

Bart Koehler’s construction days ended abruptly when The Wilderness Society gave him a call, wanting to know if he’d give up Florida to hike around the Rockies studying potential wilderness, take pictures and write field reports. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/6.10/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E

For the last three years Louise Dunlop’s life has centered around one word — coal. She coordinates the Coalition Against Strip Mining, a group of about 30 organizations across the country. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/6.9/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E

Leslie Peterson became an environmentalist when she saw that the trees weren’t growing back on timber clearcuts in Wyoming’s Shoshone National Forest. She noticed the scare as a small child, because she grew up in the forestry business. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/6.8/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E

Chuck Perry grew up in North Dakota, the breadbasket of the nation. Today he is leading the fight against strip mining that breadbasket. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/6.5/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E

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