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Observers on the Washington, D.C., scene now give little chance for passage of strong strip mine legislation this session of Congress. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/4.18/download-entire-issue

The National Park Service may be going “back to the drawing board” to improve its newest wilderness proposals after a history lesson about the Wilderness Act from Senator Frank Church (D-Idaho) at a hearing before the Senate Subcommittee on Public lands. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/4.13/download-entire-issue

A reprinted article about Herman Werner — a wealthy Wyoming rancher who is charged with killing 363 golden eagles on his large ranch — and his efforts to fend off accusations that he has erected miles of “sheep-tight” fence, which harms antelope and other wildlife. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/4.12/download-entire-issue

Major flooding of the South Platte River in 1965 forced Denver residents to take a new look at their ugliest eye-sore: a 13-mile stretch of the river that has been used as a junk yard. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/4.10/download-entire-issue

Idaho’s White Clouds mountain area would be ruined for recreation by an open pit molybdenum mine, according to a draft of a Department of Interior study. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/4.8/download-entire-issue

The Coalition to Tax Pollution, an organization of major environmental groups, has noted with pleasure that the federal government has unveiled a long-awaited proposal to tax sulfur pollution. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/4.7/download-entire-issue

Sportsmen in Wyoming and at least nine other western states are currently facing a battle with various individuals and lobbies who want a national hunting license that would charge the same fee for residents and non-residents. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/4.6/download-entire-issue

The Nixon administration went against the advice of its own environmental experts and refused to sign an executive order regulating clear-cutting. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/4.4/download-entire-issue

Once the inhabitant of a bleak, frigid land seldom intruded upon by man, the polar bear is now being threatened by modern man’s insatiable appetite for energy. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/4.3/download-entire-issue

At a hearing held in Casper, Wyoming, the Bureau of Land Management found that rancher Van Irvine could lose federal grazing rights if charges of illegal and unauthorized sagebrush spraying are proved against him. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/4.2/download-entire-issue

A few short miles to the west of the small Idaho town of St. Anthony lies an area of unique natural wonder and beauty — sand dunes that are all too often bypassed by the traveler in his hasty approach to Yellowstone National Park. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/4.1/download-entire-issue

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

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

The Forest Service is in the final stages of developing its wilderness management proposal for the Absoroka-Beartooth area in Montana and Wyoming. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/3.23/download-entire-issue

At the center of the debate of development versus preservation of the canyon country of southern Utah is the question of whether — and where — to build roads. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/3.22/download-entire-issue

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

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

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

Tom Bell, a former executive director of the Wyoming Outdoor Coordinating Council, has said the public is entitled to a hearing on the disposition of Wyoming state land because “it is public land and there’s some hanky-panky going on.” Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/3.19/download-entire-issue

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