Howard Thom, an oil pumper at the refinery in Laurel, Montana, and his brother Chick have spent hundreds of hours and hiked thousands of miles mapping potential boundaries for the proposed Absoroka-Beartooth Wilderness. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/2.33/download-entire-issue
Two Montana men are dedicated to wilderness
Posted inOctober 9, 1970: Eagle's Nest Wilderness is set for hearings
Fall fishing is excellent
When fall hunting seasons get underway, all but the most ardent of anglers put away their rods and reels and take up shotgun or rifle, thus missing out on the flurry of fishing activity that is often superior to the spring opening. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/2.33/download-entire-issue
Posted inOctober 9, 1970: Eagle's Nest Wilderness is set for hearings
Eagle’s Nest Wilderness is set for hearings
The battle lines have been drawn between aroused outdoor citizens and the U.S. Forest Service over final boundaries of the proposed Eagle’s Nest Wilderness in Colorado’s Gore Range. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/2.33/download-entire-issue
Posted inSeptember 25, 1970: Rock hunter's guide listed
Rock hunter’s guide listed
The “High Country” Rock Hunter’s Guide is a current index to some of the finest rock hunting in the west. It was prepared especially for our readers who enjoy the sport of rock, mineral, fossil and artifact discovery. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/2.32/download-entire-issue
Posted inSeptember 25, 1970: Rock hunter's guide listed
More rivers reviewed
Secretary of the Interior Walter Hickel and Secretary of Agriculture Clifford Hardin recently announced the joint identification of all or portions of 47 rivers in 24 states as potential additions to the National Wild and Scenic Rivers System. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/2.32/download-entire-issue
Posted inSeptember 25, 1970: Rock hunter's guide listed
A monument for a special horse
The “Tipperary” monument in Buffalo, South Dakota, pays homage to the most famous bucking horse that the state ever produced: a horse that for ten years took on the best on the West and retired a champion. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/2.32/download-entire-issue
Posted inSeptember 11, 1970: Banish those billboards?
National mining, minerals policy to be established
Energy fuels and environmental factors have been added to a bill designed to establish a national mining and minerals policy. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/2.31/download-entire-issue
Posted inSeptember 11, 1970: Banish those billboards?
Elk closure blamed on dune buggies
An emergency elk hunting closure has been issued for the area between Rock Springs and Green River, Wyoming, because dune buggies have driven most of the elk away. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/2.31/download-entire-issue
Posted inSeptember 11, 1970: Banish those billboards?
Banish those billboards?
Billboards aren’t as pretty as trees, rolling prairie, lakes or mountains. In fact most of them are downright ugly. A rather sad fact is that some of the very same manufacturers, companies and organizations that are currently preaching for the environment are the biggest boosters for the tinseled, artificial landscape. Download entire issue to view […]
Posted inSeptember 5, 1994: Can planning rein in a stampede?
Careful planning avoids takings
Note: This article is a sidebar to one of this issue’s feature stories: ‘Wise use’ plans abhor change. Planners and elected officials deciding land use tend to shudder when you mention it: takings. Just how far can a community go with regulations before an irate, and often rich, landowner slaps back with a lawsuit claiming the […]
Posted inSeptember 5, 1994: Can planning rein in a stampede?
Resort towns battle monsters
Note: This article is a sidebar to one of this issue’s feature stories, Can planning rein in a stampede? People around Aspen, Colo., thought maybe it was a bit much when Prince Bandar of Saudia Arabia built a mountain home about the size of the White House – 55,000 square feet, not including outbuildings. So […]
Posted inSeptember 5, 1994: Can planning rein in a stampede?
Dear friends
End of summer visitors Matt Huston and Sherry Smith of Seattle visited while on their way from a Telluride wedding to the Maroon Bells Wilderness. Unfortunately, it was a Sunday, so we got only a note: “It was good to see you weren’t working and that you take days off.” Jack Laughlin, an engineer who […]
Posted inAugust 28, 1970: Timber article publicized
Timber article publicized
The controversial article “Your Forest – Their Timber,” which appears in the current issue of the Colorado-Rocky Mountain West magazine, has been entered into the Congressional Record by Montana Senator Lee Metcalf. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/2.30/download-entire-issue
Posted inAugust 28, 1970: Timber article publicized
Sawtooth park proposed
The western United States may someday have a new national park that would encompass parts of the Sawtooth, White Cloud and Boulder Mountain ranges in central Idaho. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/2.30/download-entire-issue
Posted inAugust 28, 1970: Timber article publicized
Mercury pollution widespread
As investigations continue, mercury pollution is becoming recognized as a widespread and serious threat to both man and wildlife, the Wildlife Management Institute reports. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/2.30/download-entire-issue
Posted inAugust 14, 1970: Antelope under gun; one-shot scheduled
Nixon asks speedy wilderness action
President Nixon has called on Congress to give “speedy and favorable” action on a number of pending wilderness proposals. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/2.29/download-entire-issue
Posted inAugust 14, 1970: Antelope under gun; one-shot scheduled
Horses still roam
I had spotted a large dark animal moving along Paddock Creek which at first appeared to be a buffalo. However, after examining it with binoculars, I quickly saw that it was a horse, and further up the creek were seven more. Not just horses however, but wild horses! Download entire issue to view this article: […]
Posted inAugust 14, 1970: Antelope under gun; one-shot scheduled
Antelope under gun; one-shot scheduled
This year’s hunting season in Wyoming will start off with a bang on Sept. 5. The state’s most popular game animal, the pronghorn antelope, will come under fire for the first time this year in the Chain Lakes and Table Rock areas. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/2.29/download-entire-issue
Posted inJuly 31, 1970: Green River damned?
Swamp study released
The first “in depth” study of river swamps as multiple-use environments has been released, providing information on swamps’ cleansing and life-giving value. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/2.28/download-entire-issue
Posted inJuly 31, 1970: Green River damned?
Green River damned?
The state of Wyoming has proposed building reservoirs on the upper Green River that would submerge many miles of free-flowing, blue-ribbon trout stream and winter wildlife range. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/2.28/download-entire-issue