Legal gyrations continue in cases concerning mass eagle slaughters in Colorado and Wyoming. However, convictions, such as they are, are now being made. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/4.24/download-entire-issue
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Posted inNovember 10, 1972: Oil shale development: A Colorado perspective
The wild Missouri — a decision
For more than a year, a team of federal and state officials has studied whether to include a section of Montana’s Missouri River in the Wild and Scenic Rivers System, and now opens the issue to public comment. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/4.23/download-entire-issue
Posted inSeptember 29, 1972: There goes our air!
A new outlook for parks?
Immediate steps should be taken to keep automobiles and other incompatible intrusions from destroying America’s national park heritage, a far-ranging report by the Conservation Foundation has urged. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/4.20/download-entire-issue
Posted inSeptember 15, 1972: Decisions made on desert
NCPP defined
The North Central Power Project proposed for northeast Wyoming and southeast Montana has been put into some perspective by scientists of the Environmental Defense Fund. The implications are staggering. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/4.19/download-entire-issue
Posted inSeptember 1, 1972: A plea for wilderness
Strippers fight tough act
Observers on the Washington, D.C., scene now give little chance for passage of strong strip mine legislation this session of Congress. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/4.18/download-entire-issue
Posted inAugust 18, 1972: Make way for Progress!
A difference in governors
Letters from Gov. Hathaway of Wyoming, Gov. Anderson of Montana, and Gov. Guy of North Dakota respond to the question of how coal resources should be treated in those states. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/4.17/download-entire-issue
Posted inAugust 18, 1972: Make way for Progress!
Independence personified
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://www.hcn.org/issues/4.17/download-entire-issue
Posted inJuly 21, 1972: Revolution in land
Upper Snake River is unique
With its beginning on the western slope of the Continental Divide and draining the Teton, Salt River and Wind River Ranges, the Snake River is unique–not so much in its geography, which is spectacular, but in its fishing. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/4.15/download-entire-issue
Posted inJune 23, 1972: Decision time for rugged land
Citizens speak out on wilderness
A letter sent by 17 men and women from Moab, Utah, to the Supervisor of the Manti-La Sal National Forest criticizes policies such as the 1872 Mining Law and advocates for wilderness designation. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/4.13/download-entire-issue
Posted inJune 9, 1972: Sulfur tax endorsed
Sulfur tax endorsed
Condemning current environmental regulations as “slow, costly, and tortuous,” University of Minnesota economist Walter Heller has advocated a strong tax on sulfur emissions. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/4.12/download-entire-issue
Posted inJune 9, 1972: Sulfur tax endorsed
The powerful hate to lose
A reprinted article about Herman Werner — a wealthy Wyoming rancher who is charged with killing 363 golden eagles on his large ranch — and his efforts to fend off accusations that he has erected miles of “sheep-tight” fence, which harms antelope and other wildlife. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/4.12/download-entire-issue
Posted inMay 26, 1972: Western coal development moves closer to realization
Valid concerns expressed
Two anonymous federal employees tally up the total potential impacts — on water, community development, wildlife, and more — of the energy projects like the North Central Power Study project that are proposed for the Powder River Basin. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/4.11/download-entire-issue
Posted inApril 14, 1972: Huge new complex proposed
No mining in the White Clouds
Idaho’s White Clouds mountain area would be ruined for recreation by an open pit molybdenum mine, according to a draft of a Department of Interior study. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/4.8/download-entire-issue
Posted inMarch 31, 1972: Aquatic deserts on the march
Sulfur tax proposal needs strengthening
The Coalition to Tax Pollution, an organization of major environmental groups, has noted with pleasure that the federal government has unveiled a long-awaited proposal to tax sulfur pollution. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/4.7/download-entire-issue
Posted inMarch 17, 1972: Last chance for wilderness
States’ rights battle looms
Sportsmen in Wyoming and at least nine other western states are currently facing a battle with various individuals and lobbies who want a national hunting license that would charge the same fee for residents and non-residents. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/4.6/download-entire-issue
Posted inFebruary 4, 1972: Game herds threatened
Population growth and America’s future
An abridged text from an interim report by the Commission on Population Growth and American Future. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/4.3/download-entire-issue
Posted inJanuary 21, 1972: Timber industry "calls shots"
Timber industry “calls shots”
Senator Gale McGee, D-Wyo., responding to news that President Nixon has killed a proposed executive order aimed at tighter regulation of clear cutting on public lands, has charged that “large timber interests continue to call the shots for the Nixon Administration on national forest management policies.” Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/4.2/download-entire-issue
Posted inJanuary 21, 1972: Timber industry "calls shots"
Hearing held on spraying
At a hearing held in Casper, Wyoming, the Bureau of Land Management found that rancher Van Irvine could lose federal grazing rights if charges of illegal and unauthorized sagebrush spraying are proved against him. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/4.2/download-entire-issue
Posted inJanuary 21, 1972: Timber industry "calls shots"
Population growth and America’s future
An abridged text of the first interim report by the Commission on Population Growth and the American Future, presented by High Country News under the belief that a national population policy is a prerequisite to solving environmental problems. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/4.2/download-entire-issue
Posted inJanuary 7, 1972: Huge power complex planned
The public lands — our view
The public lands of the West and Alaska constitute one of the greatest treasures remaining in the public domain. We are down to the vestiges — what was least desirable in the settling of this great country — but these vestiges are now immensely valuable. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/4.1/download-entire-issue