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
How many rivers deserve Congress’s protection?
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
Posted inMay 29, 1970: TV program will expose mining
State problems to be studied
Nearly 50 persons attended an informal breakfast meeting in Casper, Wyoming, following Wyoming’s First Environmental Congress, and formed several action committees to deal with various environmental matters. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/2.22/download-entire-issue
Posted inMay 22, 1970: Wyoming meet called success
Wyoming senator charges state government is lax
Senator Gale McGee, D-Wyo., cited Wyoming’s failure to use its share of federal water pollution assistance as an example of “ostrich-like do nothingism,” which he stated endangers the state’s future. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/2.21/download-entire-issue
Posted inMay 22, 1970: Wyoming meet called success
Wyoming meet called success
Wyoming’s First Environmental Congress was termed a success by many leading Wyoming conservationists. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/2.21/download-entire-issue
Posted inMay 22, 1970: Wyoming meet called success
Scientists to study three Wyoming forests
A team of forest scientists was recently named to study timber-cutting practices and related resource management activities in high altitude areas in northwestern Wyoming national forests. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/2.21/download-entire-issue
Posted inMay 15, 1970: Yellowstone Park roads are open
Yellowstone Park roads are open
The South and East entrance roads into Yellowstone National Park opened to the public on May 6, delayed from the traditional May 1 opening by unseasonably heavy snowfall in late April. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/2.20/download-entire-issue
Posted inMay 15, 1970: Yellowstone Park roads are open
Public land decision is favorable
The public interest has been upheld in a public land decision on the Soapholes area of Sublette County. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/2.20/download-entire-issue
Posted inMay 15, 1970: Yellowstone Park roads are open
Bear kill up in 1969
According to figures released by the Wyoming Game and Fish Commission, an estimated 331 black bear were harvested In the state during 1969, more than twice as many as the year before and the highest number since 1966. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/2.20/download-entire-issue
Posted inMay 8, 1970: Dubois claims to be world rock capitol
Pioneer Wyoming rockhound has famous jade collection
Bilford Foster, a lapidarist in Lander, Wyoming, recounts how he became well-known for his jade jewelry. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/2.19/download-entire-issue
Posted inMay 8, 1970: Dubois claims to be world rock capitol
Dubois claims to be world rock capitol
Dubois, Wyoming, which attracts rockhounds from near and far, is a leading contender for rock capitol of the world. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/2.19/download-entire-issue
Posted inMay 1, 1970: Special anniversary issue
Wyoming fishing ready and waiting
Several popular fishing holes, including in the Wind River-Big Horn River drainage, the Badwater Creek drainage, and Shoshone Lake, open to eager anglers on May 1. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/2.18/download-entire-issue
Posted inMay 1, 1970: Special anniversary issue
Secretary Hickel calls environmental meeting
Interior Secretary Walter Hickel has announced a four-day conference in response to President Nixon’s call for “a total mobilization” for cleaning up our environment.Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/2.18/download-entire-issue
Posted inMay 1, 1970: Special anniversary issue
History abounds in Western town
Lander, Wyoming, abounds in the history of the old West. Only a few miles to the south, many thousand emigrants passed along the Oregon and Mormon trails. Before that, South Pass was known to the earliest explorers, trappers, and traders. Riders of the Pony Express thundered along the trails and Wells Fargo rolled across the […]