Writers on the Range
Posted inDecember 10, 1984: Is America's Indian policy that of 'starve or sell'?

What do environmentalists really want?

by Randal O'toole

After working as a professional environmentalist for over ten years, I have come to the conclusion that environmentalists don’t know what they want. They certainly know what they don’t want, but what they think they want instead often turns out to be worse than what they’ve got. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/16.23/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E

Posted inJuly 9, 1984: Can Edward Abbey learn to love Glen Canyon Dam?

The rancher-environmentalist feuding should end

by Linda Hasselstrom

I ask my fellow environmentalists to think and investigate before they make sweeping condemnations of ranchers; and ranchers to be similarly understanding with environmentalists. We have much more in common that most of us know. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/16.13/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E

Posted inJune 11, 1984: The Big Dam Era on the Colorado River enters a new stage

A critic profanes the West’s water gospel

by Jeanne Willoughby Englert

Does it make sense for Colorado to develop its legal entitlement of the waters of the Colorado River to grow low-value crops like alfalfa? The federal investment in the Animas-La Plata would be over a million dollars per farm. Can such an investment rationally be justified? Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/16.11/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E

Posted inApril 30, 1984: Can the West swim upstream to jobs and happiness?

Yoo-hooing our way to decline

by Ed Marston

Especially in the West — where independence and conservatism are an authentic part of the regional consciousness — we all understand the hypocritical and ultimately destructive nature of the cargo cult and pork barrel approaches. But we have been able to pretend we do not really understand what is happening. Download entire issue to view […]

Posted inMarch 19, 1984: Foes launch first-strike attack on MX

Can the Forest Service be reformed?

by Ed Marston

We have followed the agency for a decade. The sum total of the positive, constructive things we can say is that there are good people out in the field. And some of them have the courage and ingenuity to do good work despite their superiors. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/16.5/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E

Posted inSeptember 5, 1983: Dollars no longer flow uphill

Nuking the media

by Ed Marston

Trickery and half-truths are what the nuclear industry and its appendages fed to America’s journalists for several decades. It used journalists to tell America that nuclear power was perfectly safe, run by well-trained technicians, and would provide the nation with endless amounts of very cheap energy. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/15.16/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E

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