A scientist's scathing reflection on resistance by the Bureau of Land Management, the Idaho Fish and Game Department and the U.S. Forest Service to addressing the die-off of bighorn sheep in Idaho's Morgan Creek Winter Range.
Writers on the Range
Writers on the Range is opinion from the ground up.
Letters from Gov. Hathaway of Wyoming, Gov. Anderson of Montana, and Gov. Guy of North Dakota respond to the question of how coal resources should be treated in those states.
We should be angry with those thoughtless or deliberately destructive people who smear, daub, or spray names, initials, and obscenities in paint across the landscape, destroying in the process one of our basic natural resources, the beauty of our land.
Wyoming's Governor Stanley K. Hathaway has fired verbal broadsides at environmentalists for always criticizing but never offering "specifics." The Governor seems not to be a dedicated or consistent reader of High Country News, else he would find much food for thought therein.
A letter sent by 17 men and women from Moab, Utah, to the Supervisor of the Manti-La Sal National Forest criticizes policies such as the 1872 Mining Law and advocates for wilderness designation.
Two anonymous federal employees tally up the total potential impacts -- on water, community development, wildlife, and more -- of the energy projects like the North Central Power Study project that are proposed for the Powder River Basin.
The Bureau of Reclamation concealed its study of the Montana-Wyoming aqueduct -- a key part of the plan to radically expand coal energy production in the Powder River Basin -- by distorting the Freedom of Information Act.
The problem of Lake Powell's rising waters entering Rainbow Bridge National Monument are summarized and analyzed from three angles: the political/economic, the legal, and the practical.
When wilderness is brought up for discussion in private groups or at public meetings, fact and fancy mix in an improbable way. One, of the major fallacies often mentioned is that multiple use and wilderness management are at opposite ends of the management spectrum.
An abridged text from an interim report by the Commission on Population Growth and American Future.
An abridged text of the first interim report by the Commission on Population Growth and the American Future, presented by High Country News under the belief that a national population policy is a prerequisite to solving environmental problems.
Four hundred years of ignorance were our sole justification for the extermination of the wolf. Today, we have no such excuse, and the wolf must be maligned no more.
The assumption that growth is good comes as close to being a universally accepted truth as we live by. Yet recently we are beginning to question the "bigger is better" philosophy, and to see that growth may be counter-productive to most of our hopes, goals and aspirations.
A letter to HCN from someone who has observed the nesting and eating habits of golden eagles for several years around Laramie, Wyo.: "I'm not saying that eagles can't or don't kill sheep but the wool is not so far over my eyes that I can't see some mighty big discrepancies."
There are 53 million acres of federal lands which qualify as potential wilderness areas under the 1964 Wilderness Act. But so far, with only three years left for federal agencies to propose wilderness under the act, only 10.1 million acres have been set aside as wilderness.
If improvement of the environment is actually the high national priority that recent polls suggest, then we should expect to find a general willingness to share the cost. Regrettably, this is not the case.
A paper presented to the Washington State Ecological Commission, outlining the relevance of the science of ecology to addressing current environmental problems.
An address by Environmental Protection Agency administrator William Ruckelhaus: "The planet Earth is in trouble. For too long man has regarded nature as a foe to be conquered ..."
Dean of Montana University School of Forestry Arnold Bolle's statement to the Interior Subcommittee about his report, which criticizes Bitterroot National Forest's overriding concern with timber production, its use of uneconomical systems of timber harvesting, and its general disregard for aesthetic and non-timber values.
Excerpts from Oversight Hearings on Management Practices on the Public Lands. "The forthcoming ... hearings offer a crucial opportunity for public scrutiny of the state of management and stewardship of our public lands, especially our national forests."
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