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Acting Secretary of Interior John Whitaker has issued a letter of reprimand to Dean Visintainer, a rancher who pleaded guilty to shooting several golden eagles from an aircraft in northwestern Colorado. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/5.8/download-entire-issue

Many of the sheep ranchers who have been complaining loudest about losses they claim to have suffered from coyotes, according to the National Audubon Society, are those who have been getting the fattest subsidy checks from the federal government. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/5.7/download-entire-issue

Since the 1930s, the Salmon River Breaks Primitive Area, the Idaho Primitive Area and adjacent lands have been managed to preserve their wild character; now, the Forest Service is required by the 1964 Wilderness Act to recommend to Congress whether these lands should be formally designated as wilderness. Download entire issue to view this article: […]

Before the extensive and indiscriminate use of the pesticide DDT starting in 1946, the peregrine falcon was one of the most prolific and widespread birds of prey in the U.S.; now it is a recent addition to the endangered species list. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/5.6/download-entire-issue

The author observes the debate and vote on Wyoming’s House Bill 22A, which would regulate reclamation and other aspects of strip mining. Part two in a two-part series. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/5.6/download-entire-issue

A report by the National Water Commission offers America a chance to take the pork-barrel politics out of federal financing of dams, flood control projects, canals and irrigation, says the National Audubon Society. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/5.5/download-entire-issue

The author observes Wyoming’s Forty-Second Legislature as it considers strip mining legislation. Part one in a two-part series. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/5.5/download-entire-issue

Farming and ranching practices insensitive to erosion in the area that drains into the Clarks Fork of Yellowstone River in Montana are causing problems for stream life and for cities like Billings that rely on the Clarks Fork for drinking water. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/5.4/download-entire-issue

The Sierra Club is proposing energy economics reforms that would rapidly phase out all kinds of economic subsidies to fossil-fuel energy industries. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/5.4/download-entire-issue

The vast canyonlands country in southeastern Utah is both a joy and a sorrow to archaeologists — a joy because of the rich treasure of early Amerind sites and artifacts still to be found there, and a sorrow because these irreplaceable traces of aboriginal American culture are so rapidly being destroyed. Download entire issue to […]

If all goes as planned by the U.S. Department of Interior, the western fringe of the Piceance Basin in northwestern Colorado will become home to huge landfills to house the “spent shale” produced by oil shale extraction. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/5.1/download-entire-issue

Americans are beginning to rediscover their priceless Indian heritage, a movement driven in large part by a growing ethno-ecological sense that man’s various cultures and peoples are parts of a unified whole. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/4.26/download-entire-issue

Blizzards across Wyoming’s Red Desert in the early winter of 1971 pushed antelope herds against impenetrable fences, and thousands of antelope perished. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/4.25/download-entire-issue

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

The same day that Verne Huser was appointed executive director of the Utah Environmental Center, a 16-inch oil pipeline ruptured, spilling oil into the San Juan River. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/4.23/download-entire-issue

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

Analysis of the Oregon Game Commission’s proposed plan for predator management. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/4.22/download-entire-issue

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

Conservationists in northeastern Oregon are rallying behind legislation that would grant wilderness status to the Minam River area adjacent to the Eagle Cap Wilderness. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/4.20/download-entire-issue

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