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

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
Sidebar
Rock shop owner Lin Ottinger in his own words on fossil
hunting.
Archaeologist Bruce Louthan in his own words on fossil
looting.
Rick Hebdon in his own words on digging fossils.
Buying a personal dinosaur has never been easier, whether
through art-work, auctions or the Internet.
Heard Around the West
Poodle-free Montana, militias, peyote bust, the spiritual
center of the universe.
Dear Friends
Corrections, it's easy to run HCN, visitors, remembering
James Gould Bradley, Colorado conferences.
News
After 17 years, the Utah Wilderness Association closes its
doors because of staff departures and financial troubles.
The Idaho Land Board rejects a proposed dam on the Snake
River at Auger Falls.
Walt Minnick will run as a Democrat against Republican
Larry Craig in Idaho for the Senate.
Plans for salvage logging on New Mexico's Eagle Peak lead
environmentalists to charge that the forest fire there was no
accident.
Oakley, Utah adopts a development code with a "right to
farm provision" in an attempt to preserve its rural way of
life.
Members of the countercultural Rainbow Family say the
Forest Service's new permit requirement threatens their annual
gatherings.
The Confederated Salish and Kootenai tribes refuse to let
the Yellowstone Pipe Line Co. run a petroleum pipeline across the
Flathead Reservation in Montana.
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.
John Talbott, director of the Wyoming Game and Fish
Department, is caught fishing without a license - and then caught
forging a license.
Utah's Tooele County revokes its approval of a plan to
incinerate chemical weapons at the Tooele Army Depot.
Fearing potential contamination, Nevada's Washoe County
sues to stop explosions of outdated munitions at nearby Sierra Army
Depot in California.
Tom Huerkamp and Bob Morris plan to sue the State of
Colorado for illegally building a prison in a state wildlife
area.
Environmentalists say manmade causes such as logging and
road-building contributed to flooding and landslides in the
Northwest during a wet winter.
Citizens About Airport Noise, Environment and Safety
protest Denver International Airport.
Idaho State Sen. Clint Stennett accuses Gov. Phil Batt of
abusing executive power by signing a nuclear waste deal with the
federal government.
Opinion
A road trip across Wyoming moves the writer to muse about
the glories of living in an "unedited" version of the
West.
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