Magazine
Who owns these bones?

March 4, 1996

The Arizona Mineral and Fossil Show in Tucson highlights the growing controversy over who has the right to valuable fossils found on public lands.

Feature

Who owns these bones?
The Arizona Mineral and Fossil Show in Tucson highlights the growing controversy over who has the right to valuable fossils found on public lands.
Heather Abel March 4, 1996 From the print edition

Sidebar

Dinosaur bones have really increased in price
Rock shop owner Lin Ottinger in his own words on fossil hunting.
Heather Abel March 4, 1996 From the print edition
Fossils are being destroyed by people who are loving them to death
Archaeologist Bruce Louthan in his own words on fossil looting.
Heather Abel March 4, 1996 From the print edition
I was a sheep rancher in western Wyoming
Rick Hebdon in his own words on digging fossils.
Heather Abel March 4, 1996 From the print edition
People respond to owning a piece of the earth's crust
Buying a personal dinosaur has never been easier, whether through art-work, auctions or the Internet.
Heather Abel March 4, 1996 From the print edition

Heard Around the West

Heard around the West
Poodle-free Montana, militias, peyote bust, the spiritual center of the universe.
Lisa Jones March 4, 1996 From the print edition

Dear Friends

Dear Friends
Corrections, it's easy to run HCN, visitors, remembering James Gould Bradley, Colorado conferences.
Ed Marston March 4, 1996 From the print edition

News

One less voice
After 17 years, the Utah Wilderness Association closes its doors because of staff departures and financial troubles.
Dustin Solberg March 4, 1996 From the print edition
Idaho just says no to hydro dam
The Idaho Land Board rejects a proposed dam on the Snake River at Auger Falls.
William Brock March 4, 1996 From the print edition
Idaho could move toward the center
Walt Minnick will run as a Democrat against Republican Larry Craig in Idaho for the Senate.
Jenny Emery March 4, 1996 From the print edition
Did the Forest Service burn New Mexico enviros?
Plans for salvage logging on New Mexico's Eagle Peak lead environmentalists to charge that the forest fire there was no accident.
Tony Davis March 4, 1996 From the print edition
Leaving room for cows and horses
Oakley, Utah adopts a development code with a "right to farm provision" in an attempt to preserve its rural way of life.
Chris Smith March 4, 1996 From the print edition
Permits not part of Rainbow values
Members of the countercultural Rainbow Family say the Forest Service's new permit requirement threatens their annual gatherings.
Warren Cornwall March 4, 1996 From the print edition
Tribes beat back oil giants
The Confederated Salish and Kootenai tribes refuse to let the Yellowstone Pipe Line Co. run a petroleum pipeline across the Flathead Reservation in Montana.
Ron Selden March 4, 1996 From the print edition
The Diamond Bar saga goes on - and on
The Gila National Forest's decision authorizing 15 stock tanks on New Mexico's Diamond Bar allotment in a wilderness area is overturned by Forest Service Chief Jack Ward Thomas.
Tony Davis March 4, 1996 From the print edition
A lie this big
John Talbott, director of the Wyoming Game and Fish Department, is caught fishing without a license - and then caught forging a license.
Dustin Solberg March 4, 1996 From the print edition
Tooele loses support
Utah's Tooele County revokes its approval of a plan to incinerate chemical weapons at the Tooele Army Depot.
Taylor Syphus March 4, 1996 From the print edition
Nevada county to Army: Take this smog and shove it
Fearing potential contamination, Nevada's Washoe County sues to stop explosions of outdated munitions at nearby Sierra Army Depot in California.
Jane Braxton Little March 4, 1996 From the print edition
Sportsmen sue to remove prison
Tom Huerkamp and Bob Morris plan to sue the State of Colorado for illegally building a prison in a state wildlife area.
Paul Larmer March 4, 1996 From the print edition
Flooding: Whose fault?
Environmentalists say manmade causes such as logging and road-building contributed to flooding and landslides in the Northwest during a wet winter.
Elizabeth Manning March 4, 1996 From the print edition
DIA's skies aren't friendly
Citizens About Airport Noise, Environment and Safety protest Denver International Airport.
Dustin Solberg March 4, 1996 From the print edition
Nuclear waste deal challenged
Idaho State Sen. Clint Stennett accuses Gov. Phil Batt of abusing executive power by signing a nuclear waste deal with the federal government.
Anders Halverson March 4, 1996 From the print edition

Opinion

True portentousness on a Wyoming highway
A road trip across Wyoming moves the writer to muse about the glories of living in an "unedited" version of the West.
Dave Skinner Opinion Essay March 4, 1996 From the print edition

Letters

Fergus fires back
Jim Fergus March 4, 1996 From the print edition
Wrong cactus and not funny
George Early March 4, 1996 From the print edition
Forests on the edge
Michael Cain March 4, 1996 From the print edition
Don't blame the birds
Lynn Sainsbury March 4, 1996 From the print edition
Then the barber left
Norman Osborne March 4, 1996 From the print edition
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