We aren't wholly controlled by economic and scientific laws. There are spiritual values that people have and share and that they sometimes act to preserve.
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Colorado considers a "bottle bill" like those that have deceased littering in other states.
After weeks of secrecy, the U.S. Bureau of Land Management revealed a list of more than 4.3 million acres of public land that may be sold to reduce the national debt.
Along with a gradual shift to appropriate technologies there must be a broad commitment to task-sharing and equity in employment so that women do not get shuffled once again to the bottom of the social deck.
The Reagan administration is systematically tearing apart the contributions of nearly a century of environmental work in this country.
The mitigation of socioeconomic impacts in western rural communities is a relatively new science, and we are on the upslope of the learning curve.
Oil shale is not dead, despite what the daily newspapers may say. The promise or threat of oil shale will always be with us.
From the outside, the National Environmental Policy Act process might as well be a foreign culture with its own, language and customs.
To an energy industry stretched thin, Interior Secretary James Watt's temporary ban on oil and gas drilling in wilderness areas is something of a favor.
As the West's uranium industry declines, it should reclaim mines, not wait for economics to swing back in the industry's favor.
Although the Reagan administration preaches free market ideals, it has increased funding for nuclear power, retained some subsidies for synthetic fuels, and backed away from its promise to deregulate the price of natural gas.
As long as we have the federal government in our front yard, we will attempt to work with them to arrive at decisions that are mutually beneficial to Montanans and to the nation as a whole.
Virtually every hotel, store, gas station and restaurant in the national parks is a private, profit-making enterprise. Regulation of these businesses is one of the most important and least understood issues in public land management.
Given the press of time and circumstances, the vocabulary of environmental organizations increasingly reflects a new technological style.
The environmental perspective embraces not only the interests of the well-established environmental community, but many other interests as well, including the business sector.
Several years ago, environmental organizations in Wyoming chose to begin making compromises. Slowly, inexorably, they are losing whatever it is they love.
President Reagan's proposed budget would allot more taxpayer dollars to Indian reservations but also impair the tribes' efforts to gain control over energy development on reservations, undermining Indian tribes' efforts to become more self-sufficient.
No philosophical or psychological rationale speaks to the effectiveness of ecotage, Politically, what made sense for the Sixties activists is unlikely to work for wilderness advocates in the Eighties.
Editor Dan Whipple examines and critiques the roots and new tactics of the radical environmental group Earth First!
A conservation director for the Sierra Club distinguishes between "real" and "pseudo-" conservation.
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