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
A moratorium is still needed
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
Posted inAugust 18, 1972: Make way for Progress!
A difference in governors
Letters from Gov. Hathaway of Wyoming, Gov. Anderson of Montana, and Gov. Guy of North Dakota respond to the question of how coal resources should be treated in those states. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/4.17/download-entire-issue
Posted inAugust 4, 1972: The Flathead - a wild river in danger
The Flathead – a wild river in danger
Montana’s Middle Fork Flathead River flows through the proposed Great Bear Wilderness, but a Wild and Scenic designation for the river itself may be needed to stave off future dam construction. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/4.16/download-entire-issue
Posted inAugust 4, 1972: The Flathead - a wild river in danger
Predator control – a review
A discussion of techniques used to poison coyotes, including Compound 1080 and M-44, a device that fires a cyanide capsule into the mouth of curious animals. Part three in a series on predator control. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/4.16/download-entire-issue
Posted inJuly 21, 1972: Revolution in land
Vandals with paint cans
We should be angry with those thoughtless or deliberately destructive people who smear, daub, or spray names, initials, and obscenities in paint across the landscape, destroying in the process one of our basic natural resources, the beauty of our land. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/4.15/download-entire-issue
Posted inJuly 21, 1972: Revolution in land
Upper Snake River is unique
With its beginning on the western slope of the Continental Divide and draining the Teton, Salt River and Wind River Ranges, the Snake River is unique–not so much in its geography, which is spectacular, but in its fishing. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/4.15/download-entire-issue
Posted inJuly 21, 1972: Revolution in land
Revolution in land
Private property land reforms in Maine may hold lessons for the Nature Conservancy and other groups that approach the West’s environmental issues from a principle of private ownership. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/4.15/download-entire-issue
Posted inJuly 7, 1972: A matter of facts!
Predator control – the Cain Report
A summary of the 15 recommendations made by a federal advisory committee on predator control. Part two in a series on predator control. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/4.14/download-entire-issue
Posted inJuly 7, 1972: A matter of facts!
He asked for specifics …!
Wyoming’s Governor Stanley K. Hathaway has fired verbal broadsides at environmentalists for always criticizing but never offering “specifics.” The Governor seems not to be a dedicated or consistent reader of High Country News, else he would find much food for thought therein. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/4.14/download-entire-issue