Tom Bell

The power industry could build at least five 10,000-megawatt coal-fired power plants in the Powder River Basin of Montana and Wyoming, with staggering social, economic and environmental implications. (To read the full text, click on the “View a PDF from the original” link below, or download a PDF of the entire issue: http://www.hcn.org/issues/4.1/download-entire-issue.) This article appeared […]

Conservationists are hailing the release of the Bureau of Land Management’s recommendations for management in central Wyoming’s Red Desert, which include limiting mining and fencing and establishing a new primitive area. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/3.24/download-entire-issue

Wyoming’s Diamond Ring Ranch has again made the news for illegal activity, this time for unauthorized spraying of sagebrush on some 4,000 acres of public land. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/3.21/download-entire-issue

The sure, incisive pen of one of America’s foremost conservation writers has been censored from the pages of American Forests, the official magazine of the American Forestry Association. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/3.20/download-entire-issue

Western conservationists got an attentive and sympathetic ear from Interior Secretary Rogers Morton in an unprecedented audience in Denver. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/3.17/download-entire-issue

Coal mining and coal-fired power generation will have an enormous cumulative impact on the West. But the public — getting news in bits and pieces without any meaningful reporting on the large-scale impact — does not realize the full extent of what is happening. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/3.16/download-entire-issue

An interdisciplinary panel, assembled in response to criticism of forest management in Wyoming, has recommended that wildlife, recreation, and scenic quality be considered in every management decision on Wyoming’s national forests. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/3.15/download-entire-issue

The case of Wyoming’s poisoned eagles took a bizarre turn when Van Irvine — the sheep rancher from Casper, Wyo., who is charged on 29 counts of game violations — asked for a no contest plea and was fined the absolute minimum on all charges. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/3.14/download-entire-issue

A tragedy involving America’s symbol of freedom has struck in central Wyoming. Eleven bald eagles were found dead on the west end of Casper Mountain; five golden eagles were found dead, and another was partially paralyzed and near death. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/3.9/download-entire-issue

Unlike in most states, the Montana environment has a real champion: Fish and Game Department head Frank Dunkle, who has fought Montana governor Forrest Anderson to a virtual standstill. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/3.5/download-entire-issue

An overview of the Green River Basin project, with analysis of transbasin diversion, irrigation use, Kendall Reservoir, New Fork Narrows Reservoir and proposed alternatives. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/3.2/download-entire-issue

Governors Forrest Anderson of Montana and Stanley Hathaway of Wyoming — neither of whom has outstanding environmental records — have both declared the environment to be an important issue. The Era of the Environment must certainly have arrived. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/3.1/download-entire-issue