Keith Becker, a former Navy pilot from Thermopolis, Wyo., has been named the new executive director of the Wyoming Outdoor Coordinating Council. He succeeds Tom Bell, director since 1967, who is stepping down to devote full time to editorship of High Country News. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/3.13/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
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Posted inJune 25, 1971: Eagles' deaths are vindicated
America and the environmental crisis
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 …” Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/3.12/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inJune 25, 1971: Eagles' deaths are vindicated
Eagles’ deaths are vindicated
The deaths of at least 50 eagles in Wyoming has led to the arrest of Van Irvine, a prominent Wyoming stockman who is now being charged with 28 game violations. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/3.12/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inJune 25, 1971: Eagles' deaths are vindicated
Floating Western rivers
The author floats the Grand Canyon of the Colorado River: “As we would approach a rapid, even a minor one, we would all grow apprehensive …” Part two in a multi-article series on floating the West’s rivers. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/3.12/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inJune 11, 1971: Primitive area reviewed
Forest Service under continuing fire
The U.S. Forest Service continues to be scrutinized for improper bidding and other mismanagement; some representatives have asked the General Accounting Office to conduct a full-scale investigation of the management of national forests. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/3.11/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inJune 11, 1971: Primitive area reviewed
Nitrogen threatens fish runs
Water released from dams on the Snake and Columbia rivers picks up nitrogen gas as it passes through the air, dissolving the gas in the rivers, where it is deadly to salmon and steelhead. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/3.11/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inJune 11, 1971: Primitive area reviewed
Primitive area reviewed
The Glacier Primitive Area in Wyoming’s Wind River Mountains will be the subject of an upcoming public hearing, part of the wilderness review process specified by the 1964 Wilderness Act. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/3.11/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inMay 28, 1971: Eagle death toll mounts ... poison found
Eagle death toll mounts … poison found
The latest toll of golden and bald eagles reported dead in Wyoming now stands at 43. Twenty-three of those eagles are confirmed or suspected of being killed by poisons. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/3.10/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inMay 28, 1971: Eagle death toll mounts ... poison found
Energy may be cause of environmental degradation
National concern for energy may be leading our Western states into an era of environmental degradation unprecedented in history. Hearings now being held on power plant siting, coal strip-mining and huge transmission lines are finally beginning to focus attention on the overall problem. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/3.10/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inMay 28, 1971: Eagle death toll mounts ... poison found
Predator control in Wyoming
There is no doubt that predators kill livestock and wildlife. But more and more people are questioning their right to indiscriminately kill predators — by poisoning or otherwise — on public land. Part five in a series on predator control in Wyoming. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/3.10/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inMay 14, 1971: Wyoming eagles die mysteriously
National air quality standards announced
Environmental Protection Agency William Ruckelshaus has announced final publication of national air quality standards for six common classes of pollutants — sulfur oxides, particulate matter, carbon monoxide, photochemical oxidants, nitrogen oxides and hydrocarbons. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/3.9/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inMay 14, 1971: Wyoming eagles die mysteriously
The Bolle Statement on clearcutting
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. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/3.9/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inMay 14, 1971: Wyoming eagles die mysteriously
Wyoming eagles die mysteriously
A tragedy involving America’s symbol of freedom has struck in central Wyoming. Eleven bald eagles were found dead on the west end of Casper Mountain; five golden eagles were found dead, and another was partially paralyzed and near death. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/3.9/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inApril 30, 1971: 'Environmentalism' catches on in Big Sky Country
Clearcutting stirs national controversy
The people of Montana’s Bitterroot Valley once gazed into hills of magnificent Douglas fir, ponderosa and lodgepole pine. Now their attention is fixed on the barren, treeless fields clearcut from the wooded vista. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/3.8/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inApril 30, 1971: 'Environmentalism' catches on in Big Sky Country
‘Environmentalism’ catches on in Big Sky Country
The 1971 Montana legislature may go down in the record books as the session in which “environmentalism” finally caught on. Bills passed and signed into law include new hard rock mining reclamation laws, zoning provisions, tougher water pollution controls and more. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/3.8/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inApril 30, 1971: 'Environmentalism' catches on in Big Sky Country
Historic kilns mark era of by-gone days
A history of the abandoned kilns located along Idaho State Highway 28 near Birch Creek, where hundreds of woodsmen and kiln workers used to make charcoal for a nearby smelter. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/3.8/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inApril 16, 1971: Clear-cutting criticized
Predator control in Wyoming
A discussion of the hunting habits of coyotes and wolves as they relate to both wildlife and livestock. Part four in a multi-article series on predator control on Wyoming. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/3.7/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inApril 16, 1971: Clear-cutting criticized
Chemical control of beetles stopped
The Targhee National Forest has decided to discontinue chemical treatment of mountain pine beetle in lodgepole pine stands, primarily because the treatment has been found to be ineffective. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/3.7/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inApril 16, 1971: Clear-cutting criticized
Clear-cutting criticized
In hearings at the nation’s capitol, Sen. Gale McGee called for a two-year moratorium on clear-cutting in national forests, underscoring the increased criticism that timber practices have come under in recent years. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/3.7/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inApril 2, 1971: Dams may still go in Hells Canyon
Dams may still go in Hells Canyon
The “prophets of progress” see the great, untamed section of the Snake River through Hells Canyon not as a thing of intrinsic value, but as a tragic waste of kilowatts. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/3.6/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E