Statisticians at the Department of Interior say that significantly more people visited national parks and monuments last year than in 1968. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/2.13/download-entire-issue
Visitors up at parks and monuments
Posted inMarch 27, 1970: Big game herds need critical winter range
Big game herds need critical winter range
Although Wyoming’s big game herds are generally doing well, helped by competent management, private land is increasingly causing problems with critical winter range. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/2.13/download-entire-issue
Posted inMarch 20, 1970: Feeding game is costly program
Idaho has “Wild River”
The Middle Fork of the Salmon River in Idaho has now become a “Wild River” by designation of Congress and the U.S. Forest Service. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/2.12/download-entire-issue
Posted inMarch 20, 1970: Feeding game is costly program
Feeding game is costly program
Wyoming Game and Fish Department’s compensation of ranchers for game harvested on their land, plus expenses of feeding large numbers of elk, add up to a large cost. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/2.12/download-entire-issue
Posted inMarch 13, 1970: Wyoming Game and Fish buys critical range
Yellowstone winter use to be discussed
As snowmobiling becomes a bigger part of the winter recreation scene, many people are pushing to open Yellowstone National Park to snowmobiling and other winter uses. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/2.11/download-entire-issue
Posted inMarch 13, 1970: Wyoming Game and Fish buys critical range
Wyoming grizzly bear applicants successful
Thirty applicants were granted permits to hunt grizzly bears in Wyoming. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/2.11/download-entire-issue
Posted inMarch 13, 1970: Wyoming Game and Fish buys critical range
Wyoming Game and Fish buys critical range
The Wyoming Game and Fish Department has found that it is often cheaper to buy certain ranches than to pay ranchers damage fees year after year. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/2.11/download-entire-issue
Posted inMarch 6, 1970: Game-livestock competition is not very serious
U.S. Forest Service to rate avalanches
The U.S. Forest Service is collecting weather, snow, and avalanche data at 42 locations in 12 western states as a step in the development of an “avalanche hazard rating index.” Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/2.10/download-entire-issue
Posted inMarch 6, 1970: Game-livestock competition is not very serious
Idaho family has golden eagle pets
Five golden eagles periodically make their homes with Morlan Nelson’s family in Boise, Idaho. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/2.10/download-entire-issue
Posted inMarch 6, 1970: Game-livestock competition is not very serious
Game-livestock competition is not very serious
A Wyoming program compensates ranchers when wild game inhabit their land, but state game officials say that deer and antelope numbers are not as high as in former years. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/2.10/download-entire-issue
Posted inFebruary 28, 1975: Abracadabra! Idaho Power cleans up stacks
People move into land planning
The purpose of this article is to describe, in practical terms, how you can influence the future of your community through the planning process. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/7.5/download-entire-issue
Posted inFebruary 27, 1970: Wyoming ranchers now receive reimbursement
Wyoming ranchers now receive reimbursement
Wyoming has a unique law whereby private landowners are reimbursed, supposedly for feed eaten, for antelope harvested on their lands. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/2.9/download-entire-issue
Posted inFebruary 27, 1970: Wyoming ranchers now receive reimbursement
Hunting still good in ’70s
The hunting outlook for the 1970s is bright in spite of the crepe-hanging of some forecasters. There will be lean times, but there are good days ahead for the hunters willing to work at it. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/2.9/download-entire-issue
Posted inFebruary 27, 1970: Wyoming ranchers now receive reimbursement
Groups issue public lands statement
Many of the nation’s foremost conservation groups have joined in a statement of “basic positions” in response to the Public Land Law Review Commission’s sweeping study of the national forests, public domain, wildlife refuges, and other public lands. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/2.9/download-entire-issue
Posted inFebruary 25, 1977: Wood stove revival puts damper on energy costs
Sec. Andrus says no leasing without his OK
In a little publicized action, Secretary of Interior Cecil Andrus notified the Bureau of Land Management that no leases for any minerals except oil and gas are to be approved without his expressed approval. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/9.4/download-entire-issue
Posted inFebruary 20, 1970: Wyoming ranchers claim competition
Wyoming ranchers claim competition
The Wyoming Stockgrowers and the Wyoming Woolgrowers Association recently met to talk about the possibility of asking the state to reimburse ranchers for increases in wild game on their ranches. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/2.8/download-entire-issue
Posted inFebruary 20, 1970: Wyoming ranchers claim competition
Nixon frees money for pollution control
President Richard Nixon has announced his intention to release the full $800 million appropriated by Congress for construction of wastewater treatment plants, which could prevent cities from dumping millions of gallons of untreated sewage into waterways. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/2.8/download-entire-issue
Posted inFebruary 18, 1983: Declining demand and increasing rates
Opposition builds to federal land sale
The Reagan administration’s unprecedented plan to sell 2.7 million acres of public lands as a revenue-raising venture is striking fear in the hearts of many Westerners worried that “No Trespassing” signs may soon pop up at their favorite recreation spots. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/15.3/download-entire-issue
Posted inFebruary 13, 1970: Nixon moves on pollution front
The land cries out — Do we have a conscience?
Photos of Green Mountain and Crooks Mountain in central Wyoming, which have been bulldozed in the search for jade and uranium. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/2.7/download-entire-issue
Posted inFebruary 13, 1970: Nixon moves on pollution front
Old mining town is reconstructed
The gold mining town of South Pass City, Wyoming, until recently a ghost town, is slowly coming back to life, with plans underway for reconstruction of several history buildings. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/2.7/download-entire-issue