An abridged text of the first interim report by the Commission on Population Growth and the American Future, presented by High Country News under the belief that a national population policy is a prerequisite to solving environmental problems. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/4.2/download-entire-issue
Population growth and America’s future
Posted inJanuary 21, 1972: Timber industry "calls shots"
Hearing held on spraying
At a hearing held in Casper, Wyoming, the Bureau of Land Management found that rancher Van Irvine could lose federal grazing rights if charges of illegal and unauthorized sagebrush spraying are proved against him. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/4.2/download-entire-issue
Posted inJanuary 7, 1972: Huge power complex planned
The public lands — our view
The public lands of the West and Alaska constitute one of the greatest treasures remaining in the public domain. We are down to the vestiges — what was least desirable in the settling of this great country — but these vestiges are now immensely valuable. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/4.1/download-entire-issue
Posted inJanuary 7, 1972: Huge power complex planned
Shifting dunes found in Idaho
A few short miles to the west of the small Idaho town of St. Anthony lies an area of unique natural wonder and beauty — sand dunes that are all too often bypassed by the traveler in his hasty approach to Yellowstone National Park. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/4.1/download-entire-issue
Posted inJanuary 7, 1972: Huge power complex planned
Huge power complex planned
The power industry could build at least five 10,000-megawatt coal-fired power plants in the Powder River Basin of Montana and Wyoming, with staggering social, economic and environmental implications. (To read the full text, click on the “View a PDF from the original” link below, or download a PDF of the entire issue: http://www.hcn.org/issues/4.1/download-entire-issue.) This article appeared […]
Posted inDecember 24, 1971: Stripmining is "warfare"
Wolf should be game animal
Four hundred years of ignorance were our sole justification for the extermination of the wolf. Today, we have no such excuse, and the wolf must be maligned no more. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/3.25/download-entire-issue
Posted inDecember 24, 1971: Stripmining is "warfare"
Stripmining is “warfare”
As giant energy companies obtain federal leases to mine coal over vast areas of the West, Senator Gaylord Nelson is leading an effort to halt stripmining’s “environmental warfare on our own country.” Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/3.25/download-entire-issue
Posted inDecember 24, 1971: Stripmining is "warfare"
Eagle shooters charged
A U.S. Attorney has charged four Utah men with killing a bald eagle and 12 golden eagles near Saratoga, Wyo. — the first charges to be filed in the alleged killing of some 700-800 eagles in southern Wyoming and northern Colorado. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/3.25/download-entire-issue
Posted inDecember 10, 1971: Desert study is released
Mining exposed as serious problem
As strip mining grows rapidly in the West, hearings on strip mining are being conducted in both the U.S. Senate and the House on bills that would regulate strip mining in a variety of ways or ban it totally. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/3.24/download-entire-issue
Posted inDecember 10, 1971: Desert study is released
Increasing attention on public lands
The public lands of the West are drawing more and more attention as criticism continues to mount against clearcutting of timber, indiscriminate mining ventures in national beauty spots, predator poisoning, and a gamut of other problems. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/3.24/download-entire-issue
Posted inDecember 10, 1971: Desert study is released
Desert study is released
Conservationists are hailing the release of the Bureau of Land Management’s recommendations for management in central Wyoming’s Red Desert, which include limiting mining and fencing and establishing a new primitive area. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/3.24/download-entire-issue
Posted inNovember 26, 1971: Wild horses rounded up
Wild horses rounded up
The Bureau of Land Management is systematically thinning wild horses from the Pryor Mountains of Montana and Wyoming to provide more food and space for those that remain. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/3.23/download-entire-issue
Posted inNovember 26, 1971: Wild horses rounded up
The Absoroka-Beartooth: a proposal
The Forest Service is in the final stages of developing its wilderness management proposal for the Absoroka-Beartooth area in Montana and Wyoming. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/3.23/download-entire-issue
Posted inNovember 26, 1971: Wild horses rounded up
‘Bigger is better’ syndrome exploded
The assumption that growth is good comes as close to being a universally accepted truth as we live by. Yet recently we are beginning to question the “bigger is better” philosophy, and to see that growth may be counter-productive to most of our hopes, goals and aspirations. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/3.23/download-entire-issue
Posted inNovember 12, 1971: Calls for halt in coal leases
The dilemma of roads
At the center of the debate of development versus preservation of the canyon country of southern Utah is the question of whether — and where — to build roads. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/3.22/download-entire-issue
Posted inNovember 12, 1971: Calls for halt in coal leases
Observations on eagles, sheep
A letter to HCN from someone who has observed the nesting and eating habits of golden eagles for several years around Laramie, Wyo.: “I’m not saying that eagles can’t or don’t kill sheep but the wool is not so far over my eyes that I can’t see some mighty big discrepancies.” Download entire issue to […]
Posted inNovember 12, 1971: Calls for halt in coal leases
Calls for halt in coal leases
Sen. Gaylord Nelson is pressing for a moratorium on federal permits and leases for coal strip mining on public lands until environmental reviews have been made. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/3.22/download-entire-issue
Posted inOctober 29, 1971: Ranch sprays sage
Teton Dam approved
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
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