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In the process of writing a master plan for Yosemite National Park, the Park Service has scrapped the usual approach of holding local public hearings, and is instead hosting small workshops in major cities across the country. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/7.15/download-entire-issue

The federal government is likely to ask the Supreme Court to allow resumption of federal Powder River Basin coal development while it appeals last month’s court decision freezing that activity. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/7.14/download-entire-issue

Environmental groups and the Bureau of Land Management have reached an agreement for the preparation of local environmental impact statements in livestock grazing on over 150 million acres of public lands in 11 Western states. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/7.14/download-entire-issue

A public debate in Casper, Wyoming, this month focused on an oil man’s query: Are the energy-related policies of the Sierra Club in the national interest? Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/7.13/download-entire-issue

An update on Arizona conservationists’ fight to save the state’s third highest peak, Escudilla Mountain, from logging, with comments from local citizen activists on their tactics. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/7.11/download-entire-issue

After compromises were made to a first strip mining bill, which President Gerald Ford vetoed last year, a second version awaits Ford’s decision. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/7.10/download-entire-issue

The Montana legislature has passed what is probably the highest tax on coal in the nation — 30% on the sale price of subbituminous coal and 20% on the sale price of lignite. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/7.9/download-entire-issue

The Energy Research and Development Administration has taken preliminary steps toward creating a small, solar energy pilot plant in the southwestern U.S. by 1980. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/7.9/download-entire-issue

Expectations for William L. Guy, director of the Western Governors’ Energy Policy Center, range from complete confidence to the belief that his selection might foretell the failure of the office itself. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/7.8/download-entire-issue

The U.S. Forest Service has warned that by the end of the century, timber harvest on the national forests of the Rocky Mountain West will drop by eight percent or more. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/7.7/download-entire-issue

Bart Koehler, the director of the Wyoming Outdoor Council and the Wyoming Citizens Lobby, put in the long hours to push two key bills through Wyoming’s legislature. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/7.6/download-entire-issue

This session, the Idaho Conservation League will be active lobbying for a seven-bill land use package, a power plant siting bill, and a bottle bill. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/7.5/download-entire-issue

In 1970, faced with rapid growth, Steamboat Springs residents’ opinions of zoning had turned from opposition to action, but it is looking like their efforts were too late. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/7.4/download-entire-issue

The bills drawing the most fire in North Dakota’s legislature are those to advance the West River Diversion, a plan to divert water from the Missouri River throughout southwestern North Dakota for industry, agriculture, and municipal use. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/7.3/download-entire-issue

Three predator bills have been introduced in the 1975 session of the Utah Legislature. Two of the bills support strict control and eradication; one favors predator management. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/7.3/download-entire-issue

A summary of industrial siting legislation efforts in Wyoming, Idaho, Utah, North Dakota, and Colorado. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/7.2/download-entire-issue

Industries interested in Wyoming confronted an outspoken assortment of Wyoming people at hearings on the state’s proposed sulfur dioxide regulations in Cheyenne this month. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/6.25/download-entire-issue

One of the most far reaching bills coming before the Wyoming legislature in 1975 will be a state land use planning act, which would establish a land use commission, create statewide land use goals, and identify critical areas. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/6.24/download-entire-issue

The nation’s voters have reaffirmed their commitment to environmental protection by electing some candidates with strong environmental platforms and removing some of the legislatios who failed to act on behalf of the land. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/6.23/download-entire-issue

Sulfur dioxide — which creates sulfuric acid when it comes into contact with air and water — is increasing in the West with each new coal-fired power plant, destroying crops, damaging trees, and increasing hospital admissions. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/6.23/download-entire-issue