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

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

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

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

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

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

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

An unexpected public outcry may save some of two western Colorado wild horse herds that had been slated for removal. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/17.8/download-entire-issue

All conservationists concerned about proper administration of millions of acres of public domain grazing lands administered by the Bureau of Land Management have a vital stake in public hearings scheduled in three Montana cities. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/2.17/download-entire-issue

The White Clouds area near Challis, Idaho, is under pressure from potential development of molybdenum. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/2.16/download-entire-issue

Much of the loss of critical waterfowl breeding and nesting habitat in the prairie pothole region in eastern Montana has been offset through construction of stock ponds. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/2.15/download-entire-issue