Dear HCN, We greatly appreciated the article by Mark Matthews, “Last chance for the whitebark pine” (HCN, 12/4/00: Last chance for the whitebark pine), which described the widespread decline of the once abundant high-elevation whitebark pine ecosystem in the Northwestern United States and Southwestern Canada. The losses result from the combination of introduced disease (white […]
Diana F. Tomback
Posted inDecember 3, 1990: A dead end for the grizzly?
Gold and grizzlies: a bad combination
In the mountains north of Cooke City and in other national forests surrounding Montana’s Absaroka- Beartooth Wilderness, important grizzly hear habitat is being threatened by a “neo-gold rush” — the recent explosion of hard rock mining on public lands. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/22.23/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E