Word: mountainous
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There is a tremendous irony running through these protests, for in a purely financial sense, the region lives on the federal dole. Tot up a year's spending by the Federal Government in the Rocky Mountain States- $20.5 billion on land and forest management, aid to agriculture, water of other projects, federal military bases programs and - a and saddlebag compare that with the total received from the states in taxes and other revenues - $14.5 billion -and Washington comes up $6 billion short. Admits Idaho Democratic Senator Frank Church, who was voted out of office last month: "As beneficiaries...
Many people are willing to strike that bargain. In 1970, 8.3 million-4% of the nation's population-lived in the Mountain States region; the latest figure of 10 million represents nearly 7% of all Americans. Arizona gained the most residents -up from 1.8 million to 2.3 million -while Montana gained the least-from...
Though oil and gas now are the region's most valuable energy resources, coal could easily replace them if Washington so decides. The Mountain States hold some 50% of the nation's recoverable coal, with Montana and Wyoming containing the richest reserves. Wyoming alone has eight times as much low-sulfur coal as West Virginia and Kentucky combined. At the moment, the Powder River Basin straddling Montana and Wyoming attracts the most mining. Arco, Exxon, Sun and Kerr-McGee are already clawing the land, while Shell, Mobil and Peabody are laying plans to share in the basin...
...coal and oil shale are only part of the Mountain West's buried wealth. Ninety-one percent of the nation's uranium lies in the Mountain West, with New Mexico and Utah supplying most of the region's ore. From Arizona comes more than half of all the copper dug in the U.S. each year; the Kennecott Copper Corp.'s Bingham Canyon open-pit mine in Utah, at two miles wide and a half-mile deep, the largest excavation in the world, alone has produced copper-over 11 million tons-than any other mine in history...
...wave of settlers has by no means crested: the Census Bureau predicts that during the 1980s, seven of the eight Mountain States will be among the country's ten fastest growing states (the one exception: Montana, which will rank seventeenth).* Within the next 20 years, the population of the region is expected to grow...