President Nixon has called on Congress to give “speedy and favorable” action on a number of pending wilderness proposals. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/2.29/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
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Posted inAugust 14, 1970: Antelope under gun; one-shot scheduled
Antelope under gun; one-shot scheduled
This year’s hunting season in Wyoming will start off with a bang on Sept. 5. The state’s most popular game animal, the pronghorn antelope, will come under fire for the first time this year in the Chain Lakes and Table Rock areas. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/2.29/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inJuly 31, 1970: Green River damned?
Ceremony lauds historic ruts
The Oregon Trail Ruts National Historical Landmark near Guernsey, Wyoming, will be formally dedicated during a public ceremony on July 19. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/2.28/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inJuly 31, 1970: Green River damned?
Green River damned?
The state of Wyoming has proposed building reservoirs on the upper Green River that would submerge many miles of free-flowing, blue-ribbon trout stream and winter wildlife range. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/2.28/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inJuly 31, 1970: Green River damned?
Swamp study released
The first “in depth” study of river swamps as multiple-use environments has been released, providing information on swamps’ cleansing and life-giving value. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/2.28/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inJuly 17, 1970: Frontier Days slated
Famed Comstock Lode is now abandoned tunnel
A whitewashed facade, a pathway nearly lost among the weeds, and a few weathered buildings are all that remain to mark the Comstock era, which brought bustling mining to the area near Virginia City, Nevada. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/2.27/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inJuly 17, 1970: Frontier Days slated
Frontier Days slated
Cheyenne Frontier Days, “the Daddy of ’em All,” busts out in all its glory next week. Six full, action-packed days will feature championship rodeo, parades, Indian dances, free chuckwagon breakfasts, and more. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/2.27/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inJuly 17, 1970: Frontier Days slated
Grizzlies airlifted by copter
The National Park Service has successfully completed the first helicopter transplants of problem grizzly bears in Yellowstone National Park. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/2.27/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inJune 26, 1970: Rendezvous tells of trapping days
Dead bald eagles found in forest
Autopsies have been requested for three bald eagles recently found dead in the Ashley National Forest, Utah. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/2.26/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inJune 26, 1970: Rendezvous tells of trapping days
Oregon Trail discussed
The Oregon Trail and what has happened to it were discussed at a recent meeting in Lander, Wyoming, with officials from the Bureau of Land Management and representatives from American Telephone and Telegraph Co., which has constructed cable lines along and across sections of the trail. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/2.26/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inJune 26, 1970: Rendezvous tells of trapping days
Rendezvous tells of trapping days
The Green River Rendezvous at Pinedale, Wyoming, annually commemorates the legendary get-together of mighty men who trapped beaver and broke trails across the West. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/2.26/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inJune 20, 1975: 'Irrigation water' all goes to industry
Environmental films catalog
A list and brief review of a couple dozen environmental films, including “Vanishing Redwoods,” “The Terrible News,” “A New Dawn,” and “John Muir’s High Sierra.” Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/7.13/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inJune 19, 1970: Wyoming stockmen want payments for game feed
Buried cable is threat to trail
A buried, transcontinental cable through central Wyoming has obliterated sections of the Oregon Trail and threatens more destruction as clearing for the cable continues. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/2.25/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inJune 19, 1970: Wyoming stockmen want payments for game feed
Pupfish is indicator
A tiny fish that lives in some of the smallest areas known may be the indicator of whether the people of the United States really mean it when they say they will preserve endangered species. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/2.25/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inJune 19, 1970: Wyoming stockmen want payments for game feed
Wyoming stockmen want payments for game feed
Wyoming stockmen who graze their livestock on millions of acres of public lands want compensation for game animals grazing on their private lands. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/2.25/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inJune 17, 1977: Officials measure charms of Sweetwater Canyon
How many rivers deserve Congress’s protection?
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://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/9.12/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
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://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/2.24/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
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://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/2.24/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
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://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/2.24/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
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://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/2.23/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E