A U.S. Attorney has charged four Utah men with killing a bald eagle and 12 golden eagles near Saratoga, Wyo. — the first charges to be filed in the alleged killing of some 700-800 eagles in southern Wyoming and northern Colorado. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/3.25/download-entire-issue
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Posted inDecember 24, 1971: Stripmining is "warfare"
Stripmining is “warfare”
As giant energy companies obtain federal leases to mine coal over vast areas of the West, Senator Gaylord Nelson is leading an effort to halt stripmining’s “environmental warfare on our own country.” Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/3.25/download-entire-issue
Posted inDecember 10, 1971: Desert study is released
Mining exposed as serious problem
As strip mining grows rapidly in the West, hearings on strip mining are being conducted in both the U.S. Senate and the House on bills that would regulate strip mining in a variety of ways or ban it totally. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/3.24/download-entire-issue
Posted inDecember 10, 1971: Desert study is released
Increasing attention on public lands
The public lands of the West are drawing more and more attention as criticism continues to mount against clearcutting of timber, indiscriminate mining ventures in national beauty spots, predator poisoning, and a gamut of other problems. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/3.24/download-entire-issue
Posted inNovember 26, 1971: Wild horses rounded up
Wild horses rounded up
The Bureau of Land Management is systematically thinning wild horses from the Pryor Mountains of Montana and Wyoming to provide more food and space for those that remain. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/3.23/download-entire-issue
Posted inNovember 12, 1971: Calls for halt in coal leases
Calls for halt in coal leases
Sen. Gaylord Nelson is pressing for a moratorium on federal permits and leases for coal strip mining on public lands until environmental reviews have been made. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/3.22/download-entire-issue
Posted inOctober 29, 1971: Ranch sprays sage
Fencing, spraying pose threat
Fencing, spraying, rest-rotation grazing, dual use — these new techniques for managing livestock on Western ranges are intensifying the impact of grazing in areas that are supposed to be “multiple-use public lands.” Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/3.21/download-entire-issue
Posted inOctober 29, 1971: Ranch sprays sage
Teton Dam approved
Secretary of the Interior Rogers Morton has given the go-ahead on the Bureau of Reclamation’s controversial Lower Teton Dam in Idaho. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/3.21/download-entire-issue
Posted inOctober 15, 1971: Mike Frome 'expurgated'
Colorado’s Uncompahgre
The U.S. Forest Service has cast its vote with the mining industry by proposing to declassify the entire 69,253-acre Uncompahgre Primitive Area in southwestern Colorado — the first time that no wilderness protection has been recommended for a national forest primitive area in the Rockies. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/3.20/download-entire-issue
Posted inOctober 1, 1971: Hells Canyon moratorium
Hells Canyon moratorium
A seven-year moratorium on dam-building in the Hell’s Canyon of the Middle Snake River in Idaho would help to protect the river, but it would not stave off logging, mining, off-road vehicles, or development that could preclude future public access. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/3.19/download-entire-issue
Posted inSeptember 17, 1971: Teton Dam controversial, review is needed
Bitterroot is still in the limelight
The intense clearcutting in Montana’s Bitterroot Nation Forest is attracting national attention as the nation seeks to solve its problems in forest management. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/3.18/download-entire-issue
Posted inSeptember 17, 1971: Teton Dam controversial, review is needed
Red Desert should be protected
Following a series of hearings around Wyoming, the Bureau of Land Management says that most people favor leaving the Red Desert as it is. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/3.18/download-entire-issue
Posted inSeptember 17, 1971: Teton Dam controversial, review is needed
Teton Dam controversial, review is needed
Conservationists continue to battle against proposals for the Lower Teton Dam, which would become simply another of the engineering feats — but environmental disasters — promulgated by the Bureau of Reclamation. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/3.18/download-entire-issue
Posted inSeptember 3, 1971: Senator says he is shocked
Clearcutting worst seen — McGee
Clearcutting practices on the Bitterroot National Forest in western Montana are, in the opinion of Wyoming Sen. Gale McGee, the worst he has seen in the United States. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/3.17/download-entire-issue
Posted inSeptember 3, 1971: Senator says he is shocked
Senator says he is shocked
Senator Gale McGee warns of surprise and shock when full details of Wyoming’s recent episodes of mass eagle killing — allegedly conducted by helicopter — are revealed to the public. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/3.17/download-entire-issue
Posted inAugust 6, 1971: Timber study is released
Eagles!
James Vogan, a helicopter pilot from Murray, Utah, testified before a Senate subcommittee that he had participated in the shooting of nearly 800 eagles in Wyoming and Colorado. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/3.15/download-entire-issue
Posted inJuly 23, 1971: Eagles' deaths NOT vindicated
A great creation
Few look upon the area of Wyoming’s Great Divide Basin as anything but a dry, God-forsaken desert. But the Red Desert is a storehouse of natural wonders and interesting cultural history. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/3.14/download-entire-issue
Posted inJuly 9, 1971: Wyoming Council meets ... new director named
Wyoming Council meets … new director named
Keith Becker, a former Navy pilot from Thermopolis, Wyo., has been named the new executive director of the Wyoming Outdoor Coordinating Council. He succeeds Tom Bell, director since 1967, who is stepping down to devote full time to editorship of High Country News. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/3.13/download-entire-issue
Posted inJune 25, 1971: Eagles' deaths are vindicated
Eagles’ deaths are vindicated
The deaths of at least 50 eagles in Wyoming has led to the arrest of Van Irvine, a prominent Wyoming stockman who is now being charged with 28 game violations. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/3.12/download-entire-issue
Posted inJune 11, 1971: Primitive area reviewed
Forest Service under continuing fire
The U.S. Forest Service continues to be scrutinized for improper bidding and other mismanagement; some representatives have asked the General Accounting Office to conduct a full-scale investigation of the management of national forests. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/3.11/download-entire-issue