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Wyoming, like all other Rocky Mountain states, is caught in the dichotomous dilemma of development or degradation. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/2.16/download-entire-issue

Representatives from the Wyoming Game and Fish Commission will meet with sportsmen’s clubs, outfitters, meat processors, and others to discuss the 1970 hunting season and proposed changes to hunting regulation. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/2.15/download-entire-issue

Hunting and fishing is big business in Wyoming, where in recent years it has provided a direct boost of $60 million to the economy. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/2.14/download-entire-issue

Although Wyoming’s big game herds are generally doing well, helped by competent management, private land is increasingly causing problems with critical winter range. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/2.13/download-entire-issue

Wyoming Game and Fish Department’s compensation of ranchers for game harvested on their land, plus expenses of feeding large numbers of elk, add up to a large cost. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/2.12/download-entire-issue

The Wyoming Game and Fish Department has found that it is often cheaper to buy certain ranches than to pay ranchers damage fees year after year. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/2.11/download-entire-issue

A Wyoming program compensates ranchers when wild game inhabit their land, but state game officials say that deer and antelope numbers are not as high as in former years. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/2.10/download-entire-issue

Wyoming has a unique law whereby private landowners are reimbursed, supposedly for feed eaten, for antelope harvested on their lands. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/2.9/download-entire-issue

In a little publicized action, Secretary of Interior Cecil Andrus notified the Bureau of Land Management that no leases for any minerals except oil and gas are to be approved without his expressed approval. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/9.4/download-entire-issue

The Wyoming Stockgrowers and the Wyoming Woolgrowers Association recently met to talk about the possibility of asking the state to reimburse ranchers for increases in wild game on their ranches. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/2.8/download-entire-issue

The gold mining town of South Pass City, Wyoming, until recently a ghost town, is slowly coming back to life, with plans underway for reconstruction of several history buildings. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/2.7/download-entire-issue

In a fast-moving series of events, President Richard Nixon ordered all federal installations to meet air and water pollution standards within three years, signed an executive order to fund clean-up of pollution on military bases, and more. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/2.7/download-entire-issue

President Nixon has recommended to Congress that it appropriate more than $8.4 million for construction in Yellowstone National Park during the next fiscal year. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/2.6/download-entire-issue

Legislation has been introduced in both the House and Senate to create a national park, national river and wilderness area complex along the Middle Snake River between Idaho and Oregon, an area known as Hells Canyon. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/2.5/download-entire-issue

Paul Petzoldt, whose National Outdoor Leadership School was recently featured on a national television special, declared that the idea of a Continental Divide National Recreation Trail was “silly” and not practical. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/2.4/download-entire-issue

The strongest opposition to the recently announced grizzly bear hunting season has come from the Natrona Sportsman’s Association in Casper, Wyoming. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/2.3/download-entire-issue