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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Conservation groups have advocated since 1956 for giving wilderness protection to the upper Selway — also called the Magruder Corridor — area, and are growing impatient with what they see at continued foot-dragging by the Forest Service. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/3.15/download-entire-issue

Few look upon the area of Wyoming’s Great Divide Basin as anything but a dry, God-forsaken desert. But the Red Desert is a storehouse of natural wonders and interesting cultural history. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/3.14/download-entire-issue