Secretary of the Interior Rogers Morton has given the go-ahead on the Bureau of Reclamation’s controversial Lower Teton Dam in Idaho. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/3.21/download-entire-issue
Teton Dam approved
Posted inOctober 29, 1971: Ranch sprays sage
Ranch sprays sage
Wyoming’s Diamond Ring Ranch has again made the news for illegal activity, this time for unauthorized spraying of sagebrush on some 4,000 acres of public land. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/3.21/download-entire-issue
Posted inOctober 29, 1971: Ranch sprays sage
Fencing, spraying pose threat
Fencing, spraying, rest-rotation grazing, dual use — these new techniques for managing livestock on Western ranges are intensifying the impact of grazing in areas that are supposed to be “multiple-use public lands.” Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/3.21/download-entire-issue
Posted inOctober 15, 1971: Mike Frome 'expurgated'
Wilderness exists in name only
There are 53 million acres of federal lands which qualify as potential wilderness areas under the 1964 Wilderness Act. But so far, with only three years left for federal agencies to propose wilderness under the act, only 10.1 million acres have been set aside as wilderness. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/3.20/download-entire-issue
Posted inOctober 15, 1971: Mike Frome 'expurgated'
Mike Frome ‘expurgated’
The sure, incisive pen of one of America’s foremost conservation writers has been censored from the pages of American Forests, the official magazine of the American Forestry Association. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/3.20/download-entire-issue
Posted inOctober 15, 1971: Mike Frome 'expurgated'
Colorado’s Uncompahgre
The U.S. Forest Service has cast its vote with the mining industry by proposing to declassify the entire 69,253-acre Uncompahgre Primitive Area in southwestern Colorado — the first time that no wilderness protection has been recommended for a national forest primitive area in the Rockies. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/3.20/download-entire-issue
Posted inOctober 1, 1971: Hells Canyon moratorium
Land policies questioned
Tom Bell, a former executive director of the Wyoming Outdoor Coordinating Council, has said the public is entitled to a hearing on the disposition of Wyoming state land because “it is public land and there’s some hanky-panky going on.” Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/3.19/download-entire-issue
Posted inOctober 1, 1971: Hells Canyon moratorium
Hells Canyon moratorium
A seven-year moratorium on dam-building in the Hell’s Canyon of the Middle Snake River in Idaho would help to protect the river, but it would not stave off logging, mining, off-road vehicles, or development that could preclude future public access. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/3.19/download-entire-issue
Posted inOctober 1, 1971: Hells Canyon moratorium
Environment: beyond easy answers
If improvement of the environment is actually the high national priority that recent polls suggest, then we should expect to find a general willingness to share the cost. Regrettably, this is not the case. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/3.19/download-entire-issue
Posted inSeptember 17, 1971: Teton Dam controversial, review is needed
Teton Dam controversial, review is needed
Conservationists continue to battle against proposals for the Lower Teton Dam, which would become simply another of the engineering feats — but environmental disasters — promulgated by the Bureau of Reclamation. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/3.18/download-entire-issue
Posted inSeptember 17, 1971: Teton Dam controversial, review is needed
Red Desert should be protected
Following a series of hearings around Wyoming, the Bureau of Land Management says that most people favor leaving the Red Desert as it is. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/3.18/download-entire-issue
Posted inSeptember 17, 1971: Teton Dam controversial, review is needed
Bitterroot is still in the limelight
The intense clearcutting in Montana’s Bitterroot Nation Forest is attracting national attention as the nation seeks to solve its problems in forest management. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/3.18/download-entire-issue
Posted inSeptember 3, 1971: Senator says he is shocked
Senator says he is shocked
Senator Gale McGee warns of surprise and shock when full details of Wyoming’s recent episodes of mass eagle killing — allegedly conducted by helicopter — are revealed to the public. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/3.17/download-entire-issue
Posted inSeptember 3, 1971: Senator says he is shocked
Morton meets Westerners
Western conservationists got an attentive and sympathetic ear from Interior Secretary Rogers Morton in an unprecedented audience in Denver. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/3.17/download-entire-issue
Posted inSeptember 3, 1971: Senator says he is shocked
Coal fever hits West
A new stage in the development of the West is beginning — on thousands of square miles of vacant land, much of it public, the rush to mine coal is on. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/3.17/download-entire-issue
Posted inSeptember 3, 1971: Senator says he is shocked
Clearcutting worst seen — McGee
Clearcutting practices on the Bitterroot National Forest in western Montana are, in the opinion of Wyoming Sen. Gale McGee, the worst he has seen in the United States. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/3.17/download-entire-issue
Posted inAugust 20, 1971: Mines and power make impact
Our editor says …
Six months have passed since High Country News changed direction and became an environmental newspaper, supported by subscriptions of only $10 per year. Since you, our readers, are in effect our stockholders, I want to report to you. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/3.16/download-entire-issue
Posted inAugust 20, 1971: Mines and power make impact
Mines and power make impact
Coal mining and coal-fired power generation will have an enormous cumulative impact on the West. But the public — getting news in bits and pieces without any meaningful reporting on the large-scale impact — does not realize the full extent of what is happening. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/3.16/download-entire-issue
Posted inAugust 20, 1971: Mines and power make impact
Floating Western rivers
Dozen’s of the West’s rivers, big and small, are getting more and more traffic, both commercial and private. The first in a multi-article series exploring Hell’s Canyon of the Snake River and more. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/3.16/download-entire-issue
Posted inAugust 6, 1971: Timber study is released
Timber study is released
An interdisciplinary panel, assembled in response to criticism of forest management in Wyoming, has recommended that wildlife, recreation, and scenic quality be considered in every management decision on Wyoming’s national forests. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/3.15/download-entire-issue