Senator Gale McGee, D-Wyo., responding to news that President Nixon has killed a proposed executive order aimed at tighter regulation of clear cutting on public lands, has charged that “large timber interests continue to call the shots for the Nixon Administration on national forest management policies.”


Hearing held on spraying

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

Population growth and America’s future

An abridged text of the first interim report by the Commission on Population Growth and the American Future, presented by High Country News under the belief that a national population policy is a prerequisite to solving environmental problems. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/4.2/download-entire-issue

Timber industry “calls shots”

Senator Gale McGee, D-Wyo., responding to news that President Nixon has killed a proposed executive order aimed at tighter regulation of clear cutting on public lands, has charged that “large timber interests continue to call the shots for the Nixon Administration on national forest management policies.” Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/4.2/download-entire-issue