For more than a year, a team of federal and state officials has studied whether to include a section of Montana’s Missouri River in the Wild and Scenic Rivers System, and now opens the issue to public comment. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/4.23/download-entire-issue
The wild Missouri — a decision
Posted inNovember 10, 1972: Oil shale development: A Colorado perspective
Oil shale development: A Colorado perspective
The first in a multi-article series on what oil shale is an what it portends for the West, exploring the methods of recovery, the extent and location of the resource, the role of the federal government, and more. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/4.23/download-entire-issue
Posted inNovember 10, 1972: Oil shale development: A Colorado perspective
A look at the spill
The same day that Verne Huser was appointed executive director of the Utah Environmental Center, a 16-inch oil pipeline ruptured, spilling oil into the San Juan River. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/4.23/download-entire-issue
Posted inOctober 27, 1972: Canyon highway a disaster
Predator control in Oregon
Analysis of the Oregon Game Commission’s proposed plan for predator management. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/4.22/download-entire-issue
Posted inOctober 27, 1972: Canyon highway a disaster
Into the La Garita
The second part of a two-part series about a backpack trip into Colorado’s La Garita Wilderness. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/4.22/download-entire-issue
Posted inOctober 27, 1972: Canyon highway a disaster
Canyon highway a disaster
A highway proposed for a scenic canyon stretch of Wyoming’s Clarks Fork of the Yellowstone River could drastically alter the canyon environment. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/4.22/download-entire-issue
Posted inOctober 13, 1972: A moratorium is still needed
Whither Man?
The most critical question of our times is: can man use his reason well enough to reverse his attack on the life systems of the planet that supports him. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/4.21/download-entire-issue
Posted inOctober 13, 1972: A moratorium is still needed
Very important people
Volunteers-In-Parks at Grand Teton National Park help over-worked rangers with a variety of jobs in return for Park Service-provided lodging and $3 per day food allowance. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/4.21/download-entire-issue
Posted inOctober 13, 1972: A moratorium is still needed
A moratorium is still needed
In the Forest Service’s ranger districts, President Richard Nixon’s order to harvest 300 million board feet of timber through thinning and salvage operations could easily be interpreted as an order to increase the cut of timber. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/4.21/download-entire-issue
Posted inSeptember 29, 1972: There goes our air!
There goes our air!
Earlier this year the Sierra Club won a major victory for air quality based on the Clean Air Act of 1970, but ambiguities in the ruling leave open the possibility of worsening air pollution. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/4.20/download-entire-issue
Posted inSeptember 29, 1972: There goes our air!
Save the Minam!
Conservationists in northeastern Oregon are rallying behind legislation that would grant wilderness status to the Minam River area adjacent to the Eagle Cap Wilderness. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/4.20/download-entire-issue
Posted inSeptember 29, 1972: There goes our air!
A new outlook for parks?
Immediate steps should be taken to keep automobiles and other incompatible intrusions from destroying America’s national park heritage, a far-ranging report by the Conservation Foundation has urged. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/4.20/download-entire-issue
Posted inSeptember 15, 1972: Decisions made on desert
NCPP defined
The North Central Power Project proposed for northeast Wyoming and southeast Montana has been put into some perspective by scientists of the Environmental Defense Fund. The implications are staggering. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/4.19/download-entire-issue
Posted inSeptember 15, 1972: Decisions made on desert
Decisions made on desert
The Bureau of Land Management has pleased conservationists by enacting management policies that will protect many of the natural resources of Wyoming’s Red Desert, a unique geologic area. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/4.19/download-entire-issue
Posted inSeptember 15, 1972: Decisions made on desert
A neo-sociobioecological study of the grizzly bear!
I always wanted to do one of those new-fangled scientific studies on something. So, the adventurous side of my psyche asked, “why not do the grizzly bear?” Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/4.19/download-entire-issue
Posted inSeptember 1, 1972: A plea for wilderness
Strippers fight tough act
Observers on the Washington, D.C., scene now give little chance for passage of strong strip mine legislation this session of Congress. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/4.18/download-entire-issue
Posted inSeptember 1, 1972: A plea for wilderness
A plea for wilderness
The chairman of the Wilderness Committee of the Idaho Environmental Council addresses the Forest Service. “At this time we do not have all, or even a significant part, of the needed information concerning our future wilderness recreational needs, our future timber needs …” Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/4.18/download-entire-issue
Posted inSeptember 1, 1972: A plea for wilderness
A myth penetrated
A scientist’s scathing reflection on resistance by the Bureau of Land Management, the Idaho Fish and Game Department and the U.S. Forest Service to addressing the die-off of bighorn sheep in Idaho’s Morgan Creek Winter Range. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/4.18/download-entire-issue
Posted inAugust 18, 1972: Make way for Progress!
Make way for Progress!
Nebraska Public Power District’s proposed 600-megawatt coal-fired power plant is another example of proliferating energy demands upon a land unmarked and unsullied by the march of “progress.” Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/4.17/download-entire-issue
Posted inAugust 18, 1972: Make way for Progress!
Independence personified
Claude Olson, a weatherbeaten South Dakotan who runs a 28,000-acre ranch, shares his recipes for barbequed beef, as well as his philosophy that he’d “like to prove that it is possible to live your natural lifetime without being subsidized by the taxpayers.” Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/4.17/download-entire-issue