The Oregon Trail Ruts National Historical Landmark near Guernsey, Wyoming, will be formally dedicated during a public ceremony on July 19. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/2.28/download-entire-issue
Ceremony lauds historic ruts
Posted inJuly 24, 1995: Making a mountain into a starbase
The astronomer
Note: This article is a sidebar to this issue’s feature story, Making a mountain into a starbase. “Observatories are usually exceedingly benign places. They become animal refuges …” Peter Strittmatter, a British astronomer with a Ph.D. from Cambridge, became director of the U of A’s Steward Observatory in 1975, an appointment he recognized as “a […]
Posted inJuly 17, 1970: Frontier Days slated
Grizzlies airlifted by copter
The National Park Service has successfully completed the first helicopter transplants of problem grizzly bears in Yellowstone National Park. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/2.27/download-entire-issue
Posted inJuly 17, 1970: Frontier Days slated
Frontier Days slated
Cheyenne Frontier Days, “the Daddy of ’em All,” busts out in all its glory next week. Six full, action-packed days will feature championship rodeo, parades, Indian dances, free chuckwagon breakfasts, and more. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/2.27/download-entire-issue
Posted inJuly 17, 1970: Frontier Days slated
Famed Comstock Lode is now abandoned tunnel
A whitewashed facade, a pathway nearly lost among the weeds, and a few weathered buildings are all that remain to mark the Comstock era, which brought bustling mining to the area near Virginia City, Nevada. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/2.27/download-entire-issue
Posted inJune 26, 1970: Rendezvous tells of trapping days
Rendezvous tells of trapping days
The Green River Rendezvous at Pinedale, Wyoming, annually commemorates the legendary get-together of mighty men who trapped beaver and broke trails across the West. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/2.26/download-entire-issue
Posted inJune 26, 1970: Rendezvous tells of trapping days
Oregon Trail discussed
The Oregon Trail and what has happened to it were discussed at a recent meeting in Lander, Wyoming, with officials from the Bureau of Land Management and representatives from American Telephone and Telegraph Co., which has constructed cable lines along and across sections of the trail. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/2.26/download-entire-issue
Posted inJune 26, 1970: Rendezvous tells of trapping days
Dead bald eagles found in forest
Autopsies have been requested for three bald eagles recently found dead in the Ashley National Forest, Utah. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/2.26/download-entire-issue
Posted inJune 20, 1975: 'Irrigation water' all goes to industry
Environmental films catalog
A list and brief review of a couple dozen environmental films, including “Vanishing Redwoods,” “The Terrible News,” “A New Dawn,” and “John Muir’s High Sierra.” Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/7.13/download-entire-issue
Posted inJune 19, 1970: Wyoming stockmen want payments for game feed
Wyoming stockmen want payments for game feed
Wyoming stockmen who graze their livestock on millions of acres of public lands want compensation for game animals grazing on their private lands. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/2.25/download-entire-issue
Posted inJune 19, 1970: Wyoming stockmen want payments for game feed
Pupfish is indicator
A tiny fish that lives in some of the smallest areas known may be the indicator of whether the people of the United States really mean it when they say they will preserve endangered species. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/2.25/download-entire-issue
Posted inJune 19, 1970: Wyoming stockmen want payments for game feed
Buried cable is threat to trail
A buried, transcontinental cable through central Wyoming has obliterated sections of the Oregon Trail and threatens more destruction as clearing for the cable continues. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/2.25/download-entire-issue
Posted inJune 17, 1977: Officials measure charms of Sweetwater Canyon
How many rivers deserve Congress’s protection?
The Bureau of Outdoor Recreation will commence a major inventory of rivers that might be suitable candidates for the National Wild and Scenic Rivers System beginning in 1978 — likely the first and last such comprehensive survey of the Rocky Mountain West’s free-flowing rivers. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/9.12/download-entire-issue
Posted inJune 12, 1970: McGee calls for forest study
Successful goat hunt in Wyoming
Roger Weidner bagged the biggest Wyoming mountain goat of 1969 in the Beartooth Mountains, where Montana Fish and Game planted the animals in the early 1940s. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/2.24/download-entire-issue
Posted inJune 12, 1970: McGee calls for forest study
McGee calls for forest study
Wyoming Sen. Gale McGee has commissioned a thorough and independent study of U.S. Forest Service timber management policies in Wyoming’s national forests. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/2.24/download-entire-issue
Posted inJune 12, 1970: McGee calls for forest study
Lusk rockhound still at it
Joe Walsh of Lusk, Wyoming, has three warehouses full of rocks and fossils, making him perhaps the mountain west’s most acquisitive rockhound. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/2.24/download-entire-issue
Posted inJune 5, 1970: Laramie is gem city of the plains
Ranger transfer is termed unfortunate
Harold Wadley, who as the Dubois District Ranger figured prominently in a controversial plan that reduced timber harvest on the Shoshone National Forest, has been transferred to Nebraska. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/2.23/download-entire-issue
Posted inJune 5, 1970: Laramie is gem city of the plains
Laramie is gem city of the plains
Laramie, Wyoming, named for an ill-fated French trapper, lies on rolling plains surrounded by mountains and lakes full of big trout. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/2.23/download-entire-issue
Posted inMay 29, 1970: TV program will expose mining
Wyoming senator says we all pay
Senator Cliff Hansen stated recently that citizens should not be deluded into thinking the federal government will pay all the bills for cleaning up the nation’s environment. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/2.22/download-entire-issue
Posted inMay 29, 1970: TV program will expose mining
TV program will expose mining
“In Which We Live,” an NBC-TV program on the environment, will feature an area in central Wyoming. The program will show the effects of uncontrolled mining activity on the public lands. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/2.22/download-entire-issue