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Symptoms of Gillette syndrome can now be found in nearly every Rocky Mountain state. Until a new grammar school was built in Colstrip, Mont. (pop. 3,000), students had to convene for classes in the town's shopping center. In Grants, N. Mex., the self-proclaimed "Uranium Capital of the World," the population has gone from 9,000 in 1975 to about 14,000 today. In the past decade, crime has doubled, rising to 1,421 felonies last year. In Rock Springs, Wyo., where the population grew from 11,000 in 1970 to 26,000 today, one-third...
...little town of Colstrip, a coal mining electric utility, Western Energy, is operating an eleven-acre test reclamation project at a working mine. The company has regraded the land and planted trees and several species of grass for a total cost of $700 an acre, which adds only pennies per ton to the total cost of obtaining coal. But local farmers and ranchers are not convinced, because reclamation is extremely difficult in the semiarid region (average rainfall: 14 in. per year). "If I used as much fertilizer as they did on that test site," says Rancher Wally McRae, "I could...
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