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A Sweetwater County Predatory Animal Board in Wyoming will award hunters prizes for the most coyotes killed, the largest coyote killed, and the lightest coyote killed. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/2.36/download-entire-issue

Southwestern Nevada’s desert is a landscape hostile to plants and animals, yet it is home to a species of tiny fishes, the Nevada pupfishes, that trace their ancestry to the time of the glaciers. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/2.35/download-entire-issue

When fall hunting seasons get underway, all but the most ardent of anglers put away their rods and reels and take up shotgun or rifle, thus missing out on the flurry of fishing activity that is often superior to the spring opening. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/2.33/download-entire-issue

The “Tipperary” monument in Buffalo, South Dakota, pays homage to the most famous bucking horse that the state ever produced: a horse that for ten years took on the best on the West and retired a champion. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/2.32/download-entire-issue

Secretary of the Interior Walter Hickel and Secretary of Agriculture Clifford Hardin recently announced the joint identification of all or portions of 47 rivers in 24 states as potential additions to the National Wild and Scenic Rivers System. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/2.32/download-entire-issue

Energy fuels and environmental factors have been added to a bill designed to establish a national mining and minerals policy. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/2.31/download-entire-issue

As investigations continue, mercury pollution is becoming recognized as a widespread and serious threat to both man and wildlife, the Wildlife Management Institute reports. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/2.30/download-entire-issue

The western United States may someday have a new national park that would encompass parts of the Sawtooth, White Cloud and Boulder Mountain ranges in central Idaho. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/2.30/download-entire-issue

President Nixon has called on Congress to give “speedy and favorable” action on a number of pending wilderness proposals. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/2.29/download-entire-issue

The Oregon Trail Ruts National Historical Landmark near Guernsey, Wyoming, will be formally dedicated during a public ceremony on July 19. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/2.28/download-entire-issue

The first “in depth” study of river swamps as multiple-use environments has been released, providing information on swamps’ cleansing and life-giving value. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/2.28/download-entire-issue

A whitewashed facade, a pathway nearly lost among the weeds, and a few weathered buildings are all that remain to mark the Comstock era, which brought bustling mining to the area near Virginia City, Nevada. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/2.27/download-entire-issue

The National Park Service has successfully completed the first helicopter transplants of problem grizzly bears in Yellowstone National Park. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/2.27/download-entire-issue

Autopsies have been requested for three bald eagles recently found dead in the Ashley National Forest, Utah. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/2.26/download-entire-issue

The Oregon Trail and what has happened to it were discussed at a recent meeting in Lander, Wyoming, with officials from the Bureau of Land Management and representatives from American Telephone and Telegraph Co., which has constructed cable lines along and across sections of the trail. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/2.26/download-entire-issue

A buried, transcontinental cable through central Wyoming has obliterated sections of the Oregon Trail and threatens more destruction as clearing for the cable continues. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/2.25/download-entire-issue

A tiny fish that lives in some of the smallest areas known may be the indicator of whether the people of the United States really mean it when they say they will preserve endangered species. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/2.25/download-entire-issue

Roger Weidner bagged the biggest Wyoming mountain goat of 1969 in the Beartooth Mountains, where Montana Fish and Game planted the animals in the early 1940s. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/2.24/download-entire-issue

Harold Wadley, who as the Dubois District Ranger figured prominently in a controversial plan that reduced timber harvest on the Shoshone National Forest, has been transferred to Nebraska. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/2.23/download-entire-issue

Nearly 50 persons attended an informal breakfast meeting in Casper, Wyoming, following Wyoming’s First Environmental Congress, and formed several action committees to deal with various environmental matters. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/2.22/download-entire-issue