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Following a series of hearings around Wyoming, the Bureau of Land Management says that most people favor leaving the Red Desert as it is. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/3.18/download-entire-issue

Clearcutting practices on the Bitterroot National Forest in western Montana are, in the opinion of Wyoming Sen. Gale McGee, the worst he has seen in the United States. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/3.17/download-entire-issue

A new stage in the development of the West is beginning — on thousands of square miles of vacant land, much of it public, the rush to mine coal is on. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/3.17/download-entire-issue

Dozen’s of the West’s rivers, big and small, are getting more and more traffic, both commercial and private. The first in a multi-article series exploring Hell’s Canyon of the Snake River and more. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/3.16/download-entire-issue

Conservation groups have advocated since 1956 for giving wilderness protection to the upper Selway — also called the Magruder Corridor — area, and are growing impatient with what they see at continued foot-dragging by the Forest Service. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/3.15/download-entire-issue

Few look upon the area of Wyoming’s Great Divide Basin as anything but a dry, God-forsaken desert. But the Red Desert is a storehouse of natural wonders and interesting cultural history. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/3.14/download-entire-issue

The U.S. Forest Service continues to be scrutinized for improper bidding and other mismanagement; some representatives have asked the General Accounting Office to conduct a full-scale investigation of the management of national forests. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/3.11/download-entire-issue

Water released from dams on the Snake and Columbia rivers picks up nitrogen gas as it passes through the air, dissolving the gas in the rivers, where it is deadly to salmon and steelhead. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/3.11/download-entire-issue

National concern for energy may be leading our Western states into an era of environmental degradation unprecedented in history. Hearings now being held on power plant siting, coal strip-mining and huge transmission lines are finally beginning to focus attention on the overall problem. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/3.10/download-entire-issue

Environmental Protection Agency William Ruckelshaus has announced final publication of national air quality standards for six common classes of pollutants — sulfur oxides, particulate matter, carbon monoxide, photochemical oxidants, nitrogen oxides and hydrocarbons. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/3.9/download-entire-issue

The people of Montana’s Bitterroot Valley once gazed into hills of magnificent Douglas fir, ponderosa and lodgepole pine. Now their attention is fixed on the barren, treeless fields clearcut from the wooded vista. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/3.8/download-entire-issue

The Targhee National Forest has decided to discontinue chemical treatment of mountain pine beetle in lodgepole pine stands, primarily because the treatment has been found to be ineffective. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/3.7/download-entire-issue

Wyoming will have grizzly bear hunting seasons again in 1971 in Park and Teton counties, although with six fewer permits than were issued last year. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/3.5/download-entire-issue

The Wyoming legislature may be creating a monster with Senate File 124, commonly known as the Green River feasibility study bill, according to Sierra Club officers in Wyoming. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/3.3/download-entire-issue

Gerald Jayne, president of the Idaho Environmental Council, says Idaho Power Co.’s refusal to restrict its advertisements encouraging more electrical usage, even as it exerts pressure for more dams in Hells Canyon, should be regarded as “sheer corporate arrogance.” Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/3.3/download-entire-issue

A report by the U.S. Geological Survey says that the largest concentration of strippable coal in the United States is in the northern Great Plains region of western North Dakota, eastern Montana, and northern Wyoming. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/3.1/download-entire-issue

A study has found that major dams along the Missouri River have not substantially benefited the rural areas where the projects were built. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/7.25/download-entire-issue

The U.S. Forest Service needs a major overhaul that will decrease its emphasis on timber production and permit public participation in decision-making, according to a select faculty committee at the University of Montana. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/2.38/download-entire-issue

Boat traffic on Idaho’s Middle Fork of the Salmon River — which was designated a Wild and Scenic River in 1969 — has almost doubled in the past two years. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/2.38/download-entire-issue

The Wyoming Woolgrowers Association and the Wyoming Stockgrowers Association will present to the next Wyoming Legislature bills to provide for the payment of grazing fees for deer and antelope feeding on private lands. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/2.37/download-entire-issue