Wyoming throws away its water to get out the gas
Katharine Collins
Posted inApril 24, 2000: At your service: Unions help some Western workers serve themselves
Locked out of the public lands
Rich folks are blocking the public domain, say hunters and ORV riders
Posted inFebruary 28, 2000: Acre by acre
Book says cows don’t belong on most BLM lands
Debra Donahue, a law professor at the University of Wyoming with an M.S. degree in wildlife biology, has gathered biology, economics and history in her The Western Range Revisited: Removing Livestock from Public Lands to Conserve Native Biodiversity. Her proposal to evict livestock from arid rangelands receiving less than 12 inches of precipitation annually is […]
Posted inFebruary 28, 2000: Acre by acre
A prof takes on the sacred cow
Wyoming’s Cowboy Joes jump on a grazing critic
Posted inDecember 6, 1999: Peggy Godfrey's long, strange trip
Proulx shoots holes in mythic Wyoming
You won’t find a loving couple or a child nurturing a 4-H animal in Annie Proulx’s collection of short stories set in rural Wyoming. Her briskly selling Close Range: Wyoming Stories is populated mostly by lowlifes and losers who cobble together a living in a state that is synonymous these days with limited economic opportunities. […]
Posted inJune 22, 1998: Western water: Why it's dirty and in short supply
Rancher stonewalls an agency
The condition of a grazing allotment in southern Wyoming is at the center of a dispute between the National Wildlife Federation and the Bureau of Land Management. The wildlife group’s attorney, Tom Lustig, is protesting the agency’s temporary extension of a grazing permit to rancher Wright Dickenson. Lustig says the impact of 1,000 cows on […]
Posted inMay 27, 1996: Utah ushers its frogs toward oblivion
Wyoming’s Red Desert: 15 million acres of contention
ROCK SPRINGS, Wyo. – It was the Friday night before the big event, and the first of 300 conservationists bound for this oil and gas boomtown in southwestern Wyoming had started trickling in. They gathered in a local art gallery, where they snacked on hors d’oeuvres and viewed artwork of the state’s vast Red Desert, […]
Posted inAugust 7, 1995: Fighting fires, and indignities
Irony piles on irony in Wyoming
JACKSON, Wyo. – Backers of a proposed private-federal land swap want to prevent development of the last huge chunk of ranchland in Wyoming’s Teton County. And they’re counting on the highest officials in the federal Interior Department to keep their plan alive. That’s an ironic twist in a state where Clinton administration officials are regularly […]
Posted inDecember 26, 1994: Albuquerque learns it really is a desert town
Ranchers protect land in Wyoming
ROCK SPRINGS, Wyo. – The Nature Conservancy has purchased a 4,200-acre ranch near the Big Horn Mountains, ending speculation that the prime real estate might find its way into the hands of developers. The sale of the Pete Widener ranch prompted 10 other nearby ranching families to donate conservation easements on an additional 10,223 acres. […]
Posted inJuly 25, 1994: 'Unranchers' reach for West's state lands
Wyoming boom could gas wildlife herds
ROCK SPRINGS , Wyo. – A boom in natural gas drilling in southwestern Wyoming is happening so fast that government scientists don’t have enough time to study, let alone mitigate, impacts to wildlife, say state wildlife officials, sportsmen and environmentalists. More than 3,000 gas wells are currently operating in the five counties of southwestern Wyoming, […]
Posted inJune 13, 1994: A doomed species?
Old guard may beat new chief
JACKSON, Wyo. – A retired U.S. Forest Service supervisor urged agency personnel to move swiftly to transform an organization that has historically resisted change. Tom Kovalicky, who began his Forest Service career in Wyoming, said that Jack Ward Thomas, the controversial new Forest Service chief, “wants to change bad practices,” but may already be in […]
Posted inFebruary 7, 1994: Can she save ecosystems?
Can this mixed marriage work?
ROCK SPRINGS, Wyo. – Moving from the Wyoming Stock Growers Association to managing a ranch for The Nature Conservancy is not a major shift, Bob Budd says. Budd, 37, resigned as executive director of the ranching organization in December to manage the 35,000-acre Red Canyon Ranch, which The Nature Conservancy is acquiring (HCN, 11/29/93). The […]
Posted inOctober 18, 1993: A lost land grant: Can it be reclaimed?
Ranchers block public land in Wyoming
Ranchers block hunter access to a federal grazing allotment in Wyoming despite a BLM mandate. (To read the full text, click on the “View a PDF from the original” link below, or download this HCN issue in PDF format.) This article appeared in the print edition of the magazine with the headline Ranchers block public […]
Posted inApril 5, 1993: Special issue: Small towns under seige
Corporate muscles flex in Wyoming
Environmentalists build a coalition to protect their interests in the Wyoming Legislature. To read this article, download this HCN issue in PDF format. This article appeared in the print edition of the magazine with the headline Corporate muscles flex in Wyoming.
Posted inJuly 13, 1992: Special issue: Part 2 of The Electric Revolution
Wyoming tribes lose again in court
The Wyoming Supreme Court has rejected a plea to reconsider its 3-2 ruling that restricts the Northern Arapaho and Eastern Shoshone tribes’ use of “future” water and makes the state the administrator of federal reserved-water rights. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/24.13/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inFebruary 16, 1987: A game ranching bill in Wyoming pits landowners against hunters
A game ranching bill in Wyoming pits landowners against hunters
The jerry-built system of wildlife management on a mix of state-owned, federal and private lands is under pressure from private landowners. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/19.3/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inDecember 8, 1986: With isolation and great vats of time
Bridger-Teton forest plan is very flexible
It’s 10 inches thick, weighs 12 pounds and will do just about anything you want it to. That malleability, according to observers, is the major weakness of the 1,800-page proposed plan for western Wyoming’s Bridger-Teton National Forest. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/18.23/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inJuly 7, 1986: Taking on the farm banks
L-P breaks through at Union Pass
A high-altitude standoff over construction of a national forest road gave the impression to some that a Pinedale District Ranger took orders from Louisiana-Pacific rather than from his own higher-ups in the Bridger-Teton National Forest. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/18.13/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E