Outdoor anCf Environmental' Bi .. Weekly.
Vol. 2, No. 28 Friday, July 31, 1970 .-..~·~ .... .-...-.~ ..... ~~.-..~~~ .... ._.~~~~~ ...... ~~.-..._...... ~.-..~ .... ~~~~ .... .-.~~ .... ~~~.-..
Lanc:ls Important . .. Pearl Urges Study Of New Land Report Public Land Law Review disposal of public lands, with Commission Director, Milton the Commission's consensus A. Pearl, told the Nation's report stating that, "while water officials at a con there may be some modest ference in Charleston, South disposals, we conclude at this Carolina that the Com time most public lands would mission's report has in it not serve the maximum " common threads of public interest in private recommended policy that are ownership.'' good for you and me, for all of 2. Statutory goals and us, that is, 'we the people', the objectives be established to general public." He em provide guidelines for land phasized the openess of the use planning in a framework report and the inter designed to extend the relationships of its many multiple-use concept, in tte recommendations in urging words of the Commission's Photo Bill Isaacs thorough study of the entire report, "under the general by report before coming to principle that within a Fremont Lake, nestled at the foot of the Wind River Mountains near Pine conclusions of favor or specific unit consideration disfavoF. should be given to all possible dale, Wyoming, has unique qualities. Few other natural lakes in the worlcf Stating that the problems uses and the maximum llave such clear, pure water. The rake is renowned for its large trout, cautht associated with public land number of compatible uses both in summer and winter. water resources cannot be permitted." · solved in a vacuum, Pearl The Director concluded outlined the basic principles his talk emphasizing the need and themes that formed the for revision of the public land foundation of the Com laws by stating that it is more Green River Damned? mission's detailed recom important to concentrate on mendations. He indicated getting the job done properly Fremont Lake near Dr. Leopold was one of four uses not only in the Green that: than agreeing at this time on Pinedale, Wyoming, is the speakers at a public meeting River Basin but also the 1. The very first recom specifics. Commission most unique body of water in called by the Wyoming Great Divide Basin where mendation the Commission Chairman, Wayne N. the western United States. Outdoor Coordinating large deposits of coal are makes is for a departure from Aspinall, has previously Those are the words of the Council. Dr. Dave Love, also (Please turn to page 16) the policy of large-scale Wyoming has a real problem. Dr. Luna Leopold. one of America's distinguished scientists. put his finger on it when he said people are not getting the facts about resource development. (See story. page 1 l. We aren't being told the whole truth at all times. We are being spoon-fed half-truths when convenient. Information is being hidden or withheld from us that is necessary in the citizen, decision-making process. Last Saturda~ · night in Pinedale. State officials were less than candid. They might be expected to be under those circumstances. However, when specifical l~ · asked. they offered us more in formati(m than they could conveniently avoid. It is a consistent policy. Last fall. the Governor Photo by Finis Mitchell and his aides held a "public" meeting in the city o~ Green Hi\'er. To it was invited the industry The north face of Fremont Peak in the Wind River Mountains of WyominCJ, t~·pes. the s~·mpathize r s. and a few others whose lookinCJ across Upper Fremont Glacier. This is only one of the CJiaciers in s~·m pathies might be gained. There was no public announcement - no attempt to hold an the Glacier Primitive Area which is beinCJ considered for Wilderness statP~ . open meeting \\·ith a presentation of pros and cons. a lternati\'es and options. US.POST.-Gl Secrecy in government can be defended when national securitY is involved. It cannot be con Letters To doned when natural resource treasures are being auct iuned to the highest bidder. Tlw problem of the water in the Green Hiver The Editor ma~ · be unique but it makes the situation no more palatable. The paternalistic. father-knows-best attitude of our State officials is more in the tradition oh1 dictatorship than a republic. When Editor: country. sea rce commodities and priceless nat ':1 ra I Thanking you. the hands that feed them. resources are being considered. all concerned I regret to inform you that I Roy Mork Fortunately, High Country hm·e a stake in the ultimate decision. We are not have not received my copies Irwin, Iowa ews is more concerned being given the opportunity by our present State of the HIGH COUNTRY about the environment, its Gm·ernment. l\EWS for the weeks ending Editor's Note: fish and wildlife. and related What happens in the Green River Basin will July :l and July 10. sports. than · political affect not only that basin but much of the rest of Since your paper is the only Readers Land and Mork pressures. the State. After all. large. expensive dams and contact I will have with the are only two of many that Dear Editor: pipelines to carry water over the Continental . West this year. I would missed High Country News as I>iYide are going to cost the taxpayers. And the certainly appreciate your we switched over from I agreed with most of the means now exist in our State Constitution and pro\'iding the mjssing weekly publication to information in Charles J. present laws to accomplish all this without a edit ion ~. biweekly. Evidently our Farmer's OUTDOORS citizen \'ole on the proposition. Thanks and keep up the notice on the front page of the column on " Finer Pints of Fly What happens on the Green River affects good work~ June 26 issue went unnoticed Fishing"except the part about many people up and down the Colorado River. when we announced that we the bamboo rod and how it The Bureau of Heclamation now robs Peter to Tom L. Land would commence publication "used to be considered the pay Paul all up and down the river.Flaming Dearborn Heights, again on July 17. ultimate material for fly rod Gorge is \ 'CI)' low this summer because they Michigan Our plans for publication construction." I have several need the water to fill the larger dams down are flexible. We do not intend fine split bamboo rods that I below. \\'hat happens when Wyoming diverts to remain on a bi-weekly made myself and I wouldn't 50.000 acre feet of the highest quality water out of r:cti tor: basis indefinitely. We feel trade them for any fiberglass tlw system'? there may be times when we may want to revert to a rod. Ralph Yarkston, The "use it or lose it" syndrome of Wyoming's We received our issue of Springfield, Mo. officials leads them to any lengths to keep Green Jul~· lith HIGH COUNTRY weekly basis and then back Hivcr water from being used by others. Either ~·esterday The Oregon Trail By Paul Henderson The Oregon Trail! What As historians and ar voice carrying cables and pits visions that name conjures. chaelogists now search for for the extraction of the Most famed among famous hidden traces of that great devil's own minerals may overland routes in North but meandering and bran supposedly increase and America, it outranked all ching roadway they discover enhance the sparkling culture others in the stretching extent that nature has long since put of an automated race. of its 2,000 dusty miles. It was her healing processes to So goes the continuous not surpassed in difficulties to work. Wheel rutted plain, destruction of a truly be surmounted, in variation deeply scarred ravine and remarkable heritage wherein of scenic grandeur and in the river side campground, all the reason, or rather reason's differing ecology of the once bearing such readily lack, lies in that treasure's continuously changing en visible evidence of repeated mechanical inability to serve PHOTO BY TOM BELL virons discovered by the yearly passage by a vast a mechanical age. And yet, if wayfarer who trekked its migratory horde, have been those proponents of Sitting astride the Continental Divide on South Pass, course from Missouri River surreptitiously reclaimed by mechanics would pause in bank over the continental native prairie grasses, desert their headlong haste to once this monument marks the spot where thousancfs of emi backbone to remote pacific sage and mountain forest. To consider the progenitors of grants rolled on to Oregon. shore. this gentle natural their own technological skills, And what of those restoration man has added then, despite themselves, wayfarers themselves? What his own thoughtless examples they should honor this road. do their writings, published of obliteration-- here plowing For whatever else, and document and private wagonwheel ruts into a field acknowledging its lack of Ceremony Lauds journal, tell of their joys and of corn, there laying a huge formal disciplinary ap tragedies, their foibles and pipeline where once plications, it is a road whose heroisms? What is said of emigrants hand carved a overall length and grade tribulations and triumphS dugway -- and so visible demonstrate surprising Historic Ruts endured or enjoyed by those heritages of an honored, geographic and engineering participators in organized historic past are lost to know-how as well as other wagon treks? What of those succeeding generations. ingenious adaptability of the The Oregon Trail Ruts emigrant roads leading to treks which, in crossing half a He who is concerned by this builders. National Historical Land new horizons ad to new ex continent of ungoverned rapid disappearance of an It does honor to those mark near Guernsey will be pectations there was none wilderness, made of a simple esteemed heritage must add mountain men and wagon formally dedicated during a more spectacular, none that aboriginal trail the foremost new worry to established masters who layed a course public ceremony at the site on more completely captivates high road in a young nation's grievance. For he foresees so well aligned for grade - July 19 at 2:00p.m. according the interest of succeeding inventory and, in doing so, the approaching day, nay, keeping natures way through to Paul H. Westedt, Director generations, than that one created a history to stir the notes its arrival, when the mountain passes, across level of the Wyoming Recreation which came to be known as pride of that nation's progeny very historic markers (even plains, over major rivers - Commission. The dedication the Oregon Trail. Leading through generations yet those of enduring granite) avoiding steep pull and sharp will be hosted by the Platte two-thousand miles from unborn? lovingly erected by students descent alike, but yet finding County C)lapter of the Missouri River banks over Every segment of that of pioneer lore to mark this a way without necessity of Wyoming State Historical the crest of the continent at lengthy road was marked by route traveled by their an major constructions. So good Society. famous South Pass and onto its own particular obstacles, cestors will be as ruthlessly and true did they lay their Wyoming's First Lady, the shores of the Pacific, this one stressing obvious or uprooted and cast aside as road that if today's Mrs. Stanley K. Hathaway, route fathered a history that unseen danger, another just have been those vestiges of technocrat, with all of his aids will deliver the dedication has become a national plain sweat and privation. the original road itself. Thus and skills, should seek to address, Westedt said. odyssey." Here and there, rather more do the prophets of survey a new route leading Master of Ceremonies for the Frost said that nowhere frequently than otherwise - mechanized progress mar from Missouri points to event will be Guernsey area along the entire length o{ the indeed finally almost at every shal their forces to drive Columbia River Valleys it rancher Chester Frederick old Trail are its remaining mile, there gradually grew paved ribbons of concrete would not seem possible for whose family donated the ruts more evident than they along the trail little mounds across the continent; to tear him to find a better passage nearby Register Cliff historic are near Guernsey. "Here, a beside which stood hallowed ground with than the "Great Oregon site to the state several years good days wagon travel west sometimes crudely, clunking bulldozer and Trail." ago. Representatives of the of Fort Laramie, a main sometimes in finest script, scatter to the four winds of It is written: "A wise nation National Park Service will branch of thousands of heavy engraved slabs of native heaven those sacred mounds preserves its records, gathers also take part in the program. of the Trail was forced into a stone or, occasionally, only a marked by crude headstones up its muniments, decorates The Oregon Trail · Ruts, a single track," said Frost. rude headboard to recite the where lie, supposedly forever the tombs of its illustrious unique historical location "The iron-rimmed wheels of · bare birth and death data of in peace, dear children, dead, repairs its great where the wheels of pioneer thousands of heavy wagons those who breathed out their loving mothers and faithful structures and fosters wagons passing westward on cut into the sandstone leaving last breaths as they followed fathers; to set huge trenching national pride and love of the Oregon Trail dring ' the a track as visible today as it and so helped to establish this machines heedlessly tearing country by perpetual mid-1800's carved per was 120 years ago. There is no course of transcontinental up the famous road itself so reference to the sacrifices manent ruts up to five feet other place quite like it along emigration. that oil carrying pipes and and glories of the past." deep in sandstone out the route." croppings, was accepted as a The public is cordially National Historical Land invited to attend the mark several years ago. dedication. Following the Last fall the · site was ceremony the Platte County developed and interpreted for Historical Society will serve public presentation by the refreshments and conduct Wyoming Recretion Com tours of the Oregon Trail Rus mission's historical section. area and the nearby Register As. part of the development, a Cliff site. monument was constructed The Oregon Trail Ruts will to display the National be the second Wyoming Register of Historical Places historical area to be honored plaque which will be unveiled as a National Historical during the ceremony. Landmark this summer. Fort Writing on the historical Phil Kearny, located in the significance of the Oeegon Sheridan-Buffalo area, was Trail Ruts, Recreation the site of a similar Commission Historian Ned dedication in June. Frost notes, "Of the various Plloto by Wyo. Recreation Comm. The r 1 Ruts near Guernsey was dedicated as a National Historic Landrr. public ceremonies on July 19. 4-High Country News Friday, July 31, 1970 Thoughts from the Distaff Corner by Marge Higley Swamp Study Released About Grandmother's Rose Beads and the Pickle People The first "in depth" study shocking history of wetlands Wharton states that it is I was thinking about my Grandmother the other day_- of river swamps as multiple destruction. The Atchafalaya fundamentally wrong to maybe because the smell of the roses out by the patio use environments has been Basin in Louisiana, the expend tax monies for non reminded me of the rose beads she used to make. At any released, the Wildlife Santee-Cooper manipulation essential help to private rate, my thoughts lingered awhile on some very happy Management Institute in South Carolina which aided citizens, while the pleas of childhood memories. And then by some strange, circuitous reports. Charles H. Wharton, in the demise of the ivory public agencies and route they arrived, full-blown, at the Pickle People. You Professor of Biology, Georgia billed woodpecker and professionals are ignored. He know--the people who make all those rows and rows of State University, authored presently is causing ex suggests the following pickles that we see on the super-market shelves? Since the timely account of the cessive siltation in Charleston emergency action to curb the Grandmother never even saw a modern super-market, you cleansing and life-giving harbor, and the Cross-Florida alarming rate of watershed might wonder just why the memory of rose beads made me value of southern river Barge Canal now under modification: a moratorium think of the Pickle People. I'll try to explain. swamps. construction, are some on channelization, an in I can't positively swear that my Grandmother never The 48-page report, entitled examples of swampland ventory of inland wetlands, threw anything away, but I can say for certain that she was "Southern River Swamp - A destruction that Wharton tax relief for swampland a saver. She saved buttons and embroidery floss and Multiple Use Environment," cites. He refers to an article owners, a wetlands easement feathers, and bits of trimmings and lace edgings from published by the Buereau of by ecologist Eugene P. Odum fund to compensate owners, wornout clothing, all of which reappeared at some later Business and Economic which indicated that and an inland wetland act. time on a pretty new doll's dress, or a little girl's apron. And .. Research at Georgia State government agencies, en The Water Bank bills now wrapping paper! Christmas mornings in a household of ten ~ University in Atlanta, has couraged by popular and before Congress would be a meant lots of ribbons and paper. In my " mind's eye" I can estimated the value of the political enthusiasm, are giant step in that direction. still see my Grandmother's slender fingers smoothing the 2,300 acre Alcovy River drawing plans for damning Wharton concludes that wrinkles out of the gaily-colored paper as she folded each Swamp in northern Georgia every stream and river in even a "win some, lose some" peice and put it away. The bright ribbons, too, were to exceed $7 million per year North America. philosophy is now unac carefully smoothed and wrapped neatly around a piece of or $430 million over the next Aside from overwhelming ceptable in handling our cardboard. All of this was placed in a box which disap 100 years. The U. ·s. Soil ecological considerations, dwindling wetland resources. peared into Grandmother's cavernous closet, to be brought Conservation Service out when some future need arose. proposes to channelize the Grandmother saved little glass jars and bottles, too. Alcovy and drain the swamp Teenagers Bag Cougar Mother had lots of pretty flower vases, but somehow they as a facet of small watershed were always a bit too wide or too deep for a child-picked flood control under Public By Mrs. A. V. Vanek . Heron. was shot by two teen bouquet. so we would go to Grandmother and she always Law 566. Conservationists Missoulian Correspondent agers Monday night. managed to bring forth ~~ ·~·n~• :~,.Zane E. 'ColoJCY :· A miner in search of good ore A mountain top did explore . . He bulldozed around -- Tore up trees and ground -- Now the mountain's not there anymore! * * * The Sierra Club, the National Wildlife Federation, the Photo by Gail M. Farmer . Greater Sawtooth Preservation Council, the Federation of Western Outdoor Clubs, and the Idaho Environmental The burrowing owl pictured here is found in most parts of Wyoming with Council plan a series of court tests on the White Clouds the larger concentrations in the southcentral portions, east of Rock Springs Mountains mining area in Idaho if efforts to create and west of Medicine Bow. The owls average about nine inches high when legislative protection against mining abuses fail. Legal counsel for the conservation groups have agreed on full grown. They usually make their homes in the aban~oned bu.rrows of strategy. prairie dogs. The coloration of the bird is a mixture of light and dark browns with large ·brilliant yellow eyes. A rather amusing habit of the * * * bird when intruders approach is bobbing up and down and from side to Rep Richard Ottinger. D.-N.Y., said he plans to sue the side similar to a boxer's shuHie. A screeching sound usually accompanies U. S. Government for failure to enforce the 1899 law prohibiting discharge of "any refuse matter of any kind or the dance step. Burrowing owls can be seen on the sagebrush prairie description whatever." except sewage, into virtually any usually in the early morning and evening flying low over the sage in search American waters. He will have the blessing and support of of food which consists mostly of insects, snakes and small rodents. the National Audubon Society, the National Wildlife Federation. the Sierra Club. Friends of the Earth, the Izaak Walton League, Trout Unlimited, the Bass Angler's Sportsmen Society. and the Hudson River Fishermen's Association. "Dunkle Rises from the Quiet Pool of Game & Fish * * * * Directors." Our Scientists of the National Research Council-National Academy of Engineering say sulfur dioxide pollution of the air may quadruple in the next 30 years unless drastic action is taken. The scientists say sulfur oxides are put into the air from the burning of coal and oil and that there is no com Editor mercially proven technology for the control of the pollutant from combustion processes. * * :;: * Says. A Montana state senator has said that his state's strip Charles J. Farmer mining law is inadequate. He called for ·a better reclamation law but said it would be impossible to pass a I have heard people say \'iew .. .directors never seem recognize a good job when law making reclamation mandatory for metallic mining. that a game and fish director to be around to make com they see one and they are has a tough job. " He must ment. Everything is hush, willing to back a single man appease the sportsmen and at hush . and the attitude or an entire organization that --D-o the same time keep in line prevails that if the sportsmen is willing to stand up for "·ith the politicians, in get aroused all hell will break wildlife, habitat and related dustrialists. stock growers loose. outdoor sports. The Montana Marina Is Located and farmers." Well. all hell broke loose not press seemed to agree whole "Tough job. yes ,"I answer. too long ago. Montana heartedly .. . a great point in "Tough because the most sportsmen, armed with fire the sportsmen's favor. Some At Horseshoe Bend difficult task of a director is and brimstone and loyalty to other states, unfortunately, remembering for what the cause, came to the aid of are burdened with news LOVELL, Wyo.---Boaters on open. pu.r pose he was hired". their fish and game director, media that represent nothing Big Horn Lake can expect to Boulter said Red Cliff, Is it the job of a game and Frank Dunkle, when he had more than political and in find more than just a tree to which actually has been open fish director to spend most of the guts to stand up for an dustrial propaganda outlets. tie their craft to all summer, operates under a hi s time trying to keep the issue that concerned the Out of the quiet pool of beginning Saturday when permit from the National resource-boat from rocking welfare of the fi sh and game and fish directors, Red Cliff Marina opens in the Park Service. The Park when something or someone wildlife in Montana. The issue Frank Dunkle rose with a Horseshoe Bend area near Service has a camping area threatens wildlife? Or is the is not important here. What is firm stand. It seems that he here. nearby. game and fish director the important is the Governor has won his right to carry on Bill Boulter, manager of Boulter said drawings leader in protecting and Forrest Anderson and the his duties as a wildlife ad the shoreline facility, said the would be held both days for maintaining fish and wildlife five-man fish and game miJistrator, par excellence, grand opening will be held free boat rides. "A lot of and the environment nec commission were ready to rather than serve as a Saturday and Sunday, all people from around Billings cessary to support the can Director Dunkle for political puppet. I salute the day, with services including and Hardin come down here species? rocking the boat---for "trying man, his department and his fueling , rentals, boating and we want to show them It has been a long time to play all the roles on the ball sportsmen. Their actions supplies and tie-ups , around," he said. since sportsmen have heard club." may cause more directors to available. The marina has nine buoys from a game and fish director Sportsmen clubs from all rise from the quiet pools. ' Red Cliff Marina is the only for tie-ups and "will add more on an important issue. Most over Montana led the cause to one in the Horseshoe Bend as they're needed," Boulter of them. it seems, don't like to keep Dunkle as director, for Superintendent area, though it's not the first said. be in the limelight on con as they put it, "He is a in business. Frozen Lake Assistant manager Mark troversial issues regarding respected department head Receives Award Bay, nearer the dam the Tippetts or Boulter will be on wildlife or the environment. who has attracted well National Park Service of north end of the five-year old hand at the marina 24 hours a They will, on occasion, allow qualified professionals to ficials announced recently man-made lake, is already day. themselves to be quoted or critical management posts in that Superintendent Jack K. photographed when they his department. He has Anderson of Yellowstone present an award to a fought fearlessly for the National Park has received deserving employee or environment. He has worked the Department of the In LANDER VALLEY FLIES dedicate a new building, or effectively with other state terior's highest honor, the TYING SUPP1.1E$ "fnroute to Yellowston&" act as honorary chairman of and federal agencies to Distinguished Service Award. HANO Tli:D TROUT 8 Wildlife Week. But when such remove points of possible The award was presented to STREAMER FLIES topics as dams, oil spills, conflicts so that varying Anderson by Interior • Rainbow coV:~~;NB~~~~:~ water pollution by leading interests can get on with their Secretary Hickel at the • Renegac/e state industries and in jobs." thirty-eighth awards con * Girdle Bug LAHDEtt, WYOMING ftSIO discriminate timber cutting It seems that sportsmen vocation held in Constitution • Fic/c/ler's Nymph PHONE 307 332·•336 manage . tp slip, ,ipto public. . aren't so dumb.. after all. They Hall, Washington,u.c:,June 30 . 6-High Country_News Friday, July 31, 1970 The sweat flowed down my seven-day pack to the brow and ski-jumped off a shoul ders of a man traversing sunburnt nose and cheeks. I foot hills a nd mountains and CLASSIFI_ED A_D R~ TE: 2Sc per word for a single insertion; 20c per word for more could see the salty drops there is work involved. than one mserhon wtth a 10 word minimum for any insertion. splatter on my dusty boots. For a July 4 day at 11 ,000-feet The Skill REAL ESTATE HAVE RANCH - WILL Trailers. Dept. 663 Parsons in Wyoming it was hot. Blood Kansas 673~7 Backpack camping skills SHARE - Boulder, Wyo• . thirsty. high-co un try FOR SALE • 105 acres ad· cannot be faked. For 7632 mosquitores jabbed at the joining Shoshoni Nat'l For· Acres. Concerned PICKUP CAMPER JACKS - baL: ks of my hands and neck. example. either you know est near proposed Washa· Factory direct savings. All about your recreational fu· types including permanent. They seemed to scoff at the how to build and maintain a kie Wilderness Area. One high-altitude cooking fire or half mile from Disney hold· ture? We will send you our camper mounted type. Free gooey layer of bug repellent ings in Dunoir Valley direct brochure. Northwest Cam- that I had applied just you don't. You can't pack the ly north of Rams Horn 'plan-FREE-TBC BOX 400 per Supply. Conklin Park - minutes before. camp stove with you in most ai>J Guest Ranch, 9 miles west, 9 Homewood, Illinois 60430, Spirit Lake; Idaho. "So this is back- cases. unless it is a light- ~ miles north of Dubois. $900 ~----~------~ packing ... well. you can have weight single-burner model. per acre. Write or call CAMPERS, TRAILERS Trailer. Pickup camper or it. .. scoffed my buddy Dan (;ood backpack cookery may t---_...... ,______.....,.cover. Do it yourself and Maryellen Olson 3501 Car· Binger who came along be the difference in building mel Drive, Casper, Wyo. You ~tn•t seen nothing save! Complete plans $3.95 or I os i ng t he "!nergy 82601, 307-235-1747. because I had promised him 'till you see our new cat- each. Cover plans $2.00. some good high countr y necessary to compete in alog on camper & trailer Con version plans - econo fishing. Dan was having his backpacking. accessories. Send 25 cents. line type van $2. 95; pas sen HOMESTEAD LANDS now problems in the thin air, Lots of skills are necessary Mid America Camper & ger bus or deli very van $2.95 for enjoyable backpacking. available. 160-640 acres. Trailer Supply. Dept. 1 satisfaction guaranteed. Eq- where breathing and Write: Land Information. P. moving. combined with SO You should know how to erect Oswego. Kansas 673~6. uipment Catalog $1.00 (re- comfortable shelters out of 0. Box US. Postal Statton A fundable). Details 10¢. Vik degree lemperatures. can Vancouver. British Colum.. Build Your Camper . Precut ing Camper Supply. 99- D test a man's endurance. materials at hand that will bta. Enclose $1.00 for bulle ts. Blueprints. Supplies. Glenwood. Minneapolis. If someone asked me about keep you warm and dry. tin & m; p index. Literature 25¢. Comstock Minnesota 55403. the pleasures of backbacking, Basic skills 1'1C1ude learning then, I may have sided with the proper way to walk and wearv Dan but I know better. breathe- how to care for your ~ ...... ,...... The s-port of backpacking has feet - choosing the right type two faces. two extremes. In of clothing and footgear, . one instance m ind and body along with a sleeping bag that can be taxed beyond its aids sufficient sleep . Your advertising dollar usual capacity. but in return for the effort put forth. a The Quid packer is rewarded with a • burst of simple. natural After the work. the sweat, IS well spent when you pleasur es that cannot be the weary bones and the manufactured or purchased aching muscles. comes the. in today's hectic society. quiet. The backpack quiet is a mighty reward. Being a Self-Confidence backpacker. you chose a advertise in route not marred by the A person that walks the sounds and sea rs of mountains and trails with civil ization. The quiet is upon High Country News. camp and food on his back ,·ou now as vou stretch out learns that there a re few under the pines. You hear the obstacles that can block the natural sounds of an owl and way towards a destination. eovote off in the distance. A Let us tell you why. Wl1ether backpacking alone sn1all fire crackles near your or with a group, a packer feet. You have made it to this knows that his performace is peaceful spot under your own Our reading public (covering all the based on the condition of his power. legs. his heart, his vision, As the stars glittered in a 50 states and foreign countries) enjoys an ener hearing and smell. He must black sky. Dan Bi nger turned be mentally alert also. There from the hypnotic. dance of getic and action filled life. They like to travel but a re few other forms of sport the orange flames and vowed that so thoroughly test a tha t his first backpacking trip they need to know where to go, where to stay, man·s physical and mental \\·asn 't going to be his last. prowess. Whether the back I smiled. ' and what there is to see when they get there. pack goal be a certain la ke or stream. hill or mountain, or a ten mi le hike ... when the Film Stars Whoever you are and what ever your product, it desti na tion is reached. a person has gained confidence pays to advertise by either a classified ad or a dis in the capabilities of his body. Prairie Dog 1\lachi nes and automation play advertisement. Let people know WHO you have often deprived man of Wind Cave National Park in this confidence. South Dakota was the scene are and WHAT your product is. They'd like to for documentary filming on The Work the buffalo a nd prairie dog by know. Wolper productions of I don ·t believe there is as Hollywood. Calif.. according For information call or write: much satisfaction from to cave Supt. Lester Me· sports that require little or no Cia nahan. HIGH COUNTRY NEWS, Box K Lander, Wyo. 82520 (307) 332-4877 work. as there are from The documentary deals A with endangered species of" ~ ...... sports that require a large quantity of effort. The more animals and wildlife in the U. ~!'··· S. The buffalo was chosen .. ································································································································Are you the outgoing, vivacious, and outdoorsey type? Th en· ························-!you're the type- effort you put into a sport, the more enjoyment you receive. because at one time they i•~,of person we're looking for. Work is a built-in pre were in danger of extinction _A, High Country News is serving people just like you in over 45 states. requisite of backpacking. and the prairie dog because /ih.l:;!l)! There is no way of getting the rema ining ones a re found !~~~-~ ~ For $5 you can read up-to-date information on all your favorite outdoor around it. Add. a 30-pound, mainly in sanc tuaries. 1 · sports and recreational activities. We can show you some beautiful places to go for. ; your vacation and we can share with you the experiences of others in our becwtiful ~ i Send to: countr~. ~ For all your . HIGH COUNTRY NEWS Box K Lander, Wyoming 82520 ~ Hunting and JIFFY Fishing nee~ . ELIIIIUTES KIIOT PROBLEMS, r------~ GUARANTEED lD HOLD! FAST TIE AND RELEASE with this new Mail the attached coupon t NAME · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · • • · • • · · · · · • · • • · • • . device or many uses: Tent ropes, boaJ moor· stop in at to us and we hope you will & ing and anchor lines, clothes Jines, car4 top carrier ropes, trock or trailer cover ropes, enioy one full year of out· ' STREET • · · · · · · ...... ••••..•• ••.. ..• ••• ... . etc. Heavy Steel. Can be permanently mount· Shoshoni Hardware ed with screws or bolts. 4 for $1.00. Plus 25c , . door environmental read· t for handling and shipping chgs. Shipped and H ing. t TOWN ...... •...... ••• •• ...... • U.S.A. postage prepaid, no C.O.D.'s. Electronics CAPRECO., 448 W. North St., j; 1 STATE •• . ....•...... •••...... ZIP .• . •• •. . Kalamazoo, Mieh 49007 Shoshoni, Wyoming btiiiiiiiiiiiU.. I ....IIIIIIHIHIIIIIIUIIIIIIIIIIIIIIUIII.. IIIIIIIII IIIII IIIII IIII II.I III IIIIIIIIIIIIII IIII IIII IIUIIIIIUIIUIIIIIH III I IIIIIIIIIIIIII~ ~try .Newt Friday, July 31, lt ·WYOMfNQ OUTDOORS Offi~ial Newsletter of Wyoming Outdoor Coordinating Council, Inc. Thomas A. Bell, Editor Box K, Lander, Wyoming 82520 From The Intermountain Observer Boise, Idaho July 18,1970 Running Idaho· like a whore house Speaking in Jerome earlier this month, Gov. Don. Samuelson told a campaign crowd that Sen. Frank Church may have jeopardized the location of a manufacturing plant in Idaho because of the image he created in a national television appearance criticizing President Nixon's invasion of Cambodia. The president of the finn had been considering Magic Valley as a she for a new plant, the Governor said, .but after the TV interview a company official told him. he "wasn't so sure he wanted to come to Idaho." Samuelson said he attempted to mollify the company president by sending him an editorial from an Idaho newspaper attacking Senator Church for his views on Cambodia. · The Governor didn't say whether the firm manufactured napalm, or howitzers or some. other produce dependent for its demand on continuation of the war in Indochina, or Conservationists, industry representatives, state offi~ials, and the whether this was just a case of a company accustomed to Forest Servi~e got together for this tour of the Bridger National Forest in 1 operating in a climate of political subservience. Wyoming. This photo illustrates some of the obiedions ~onservati~nists But his message was clear. He seemed to be saying that have to ~lear-~ut timbering. It is this sort of timbering that prompted Sen· when it comes to soliciting new business, a state should consider no price too dear - not even the convictions of ator Gale McGee to ask for a blue-ribbon study commission of forest prac· its senior U.S. Senator. That's another way of saying that tices. the policies of public officials should be for sale in the scramble for payrolls. ~OOOOOD~ There's a word which describes that kind of solicitation. It's called prostitution. Foul Air S.H.D. Smothers § At the past OWAA Conference in •Coeur D'Alene, Idaho a Editor's footnote: This seems to be a condition common to S~ power company official used the platform to sell another dam. He told us Hells Canyon was barren and had no some other western governors. ~au~. · Plant Life After the convention I was lucky enough to see Hells Eutrophication--- The air apparently has Canyon. It is beautiful, inspiring, a soul laid open- Earth's. become so foul in some areas It is frightening in an age of so many destructive forces that Eutrophication is a word often used these days. It refers that even plants can't men live who have no regard for life and the beauty of to a perfectly natural ecological process. Applied to natural breathe, the Wildlife nature. Cannot such men drop the bomb, release ~ bodies of water. it simply means aging. Management Institute devastating poisons, or build a world unto themselves unfit Em·i ronmental concern has brought the term into reports. for normal life. common usage because man can cause lakes to age faster According to the U. S It may be enough for many of us simply to know the than normally. He does this by pouring abnormal amounts Department of Agriculture, canyon is there. We may see it once during our life and long of plant nutrients into streams and lakes. His own human air pollution damage to in the future it may remain a link with reali~ that our \\'astes and the fertilizers he puts on fields contribute to the vegetation is on the increase children will need in a cement world. loads. in the United States, causing So far, it belongs to your readers. Please urge them to Lakes progress from pure. crystalline waters to murky. losses currently estimated at express their desires if they want it saved. If you wish more \H'cd-infested bodies. The next step is to swampy con more than half a billion information, write Floyd Harvey, Hells Canyon Excursions, ditions. then to \\'et bogs. and finally to field or forest. dollars a year. Scientists of Box 308. Lewiston, Idaho, 83501. Lakes fill in by the deposition of sediment and dead USDA's Agriculture Thank you and I wish you the best the outdoors has to organic material. The more plants there are to die and fall Research Service at the Plant offer. to the bottom. the faster the lake dies. Algae and other Air Pollution Laboratory in higher plants thri,·e on the nitrogen. phosphorus and Beltsville. Maryland, are Sincerely potassium\\'(' dump into our streams and lakes. The more working in cooperation with plants there are and the more decomposition of the plants the National Air Pollution 5! JohnL. Ebeling \\'hen they die and fall to the bottom. the less oxygen can Control Administration of the ~ Public Relations remain lor sustaining fish. U. S. Department of Health, ~ Winnebago Industries, Inc. :\ lake can di<' from eutrophication long before the water Education, and Welfare to 0 is gone and the forest has taken over. Pollution of various find answers to the myriad § sorts mere!~ speeds the process. problems associated with air 8 pollution on plants. tl --- Studies have shown that § Mo ato ium on Canal there may be growth sup pression of as much as 50 Secretary of the Interior the Wildlife Management percent on the more sensitive Walter J. Hickel has an Institute reports. varieties of some crops. Some In this issue of High Country News, there is considerable nounced that he has written inhibition of growth is thought information on State of Wyoming proposals to dam and ~~ Secretary of the Army to occur even without visible divert the famous Green River. These proposals would Stanley R. Resor requesting a Pollution Meet injury. Moreover, the most ll eliminate vast fish and game resources. They would also I 15-month moratorium on susceptible plants are o cause unmeasured environmental destruction. The State is construction of the Cross A four-day conference and prematurely aged and not taking these into consideration. We need letters to Florida Barge Canal while a exposition on environmental weakened by polluted air. Governor Stanley K. Hathaway expressing your concern. special Interior Department pollution has been called by Ask for environmental studies comparable in scope to the task force studies the Interior Secretary Walter J. Human Right economic studies. Request full public disclosure of absolute ecological, hydrological, and Hickel, the Wildlife costs for transbasin diversions, who would pay the costs, tother problems involved. Management Institute In his monumental book who is to buy the water, how much the taxpayers will be Construction of the canal, reports. The conference will "The Population Bomb," Dr. asked to subsidize the scheme, and other pertinent begun in 1964 by the Army be held September 29-0ctober Paul R. Ehrlich lists 15 questions. Ask that public hearings be publicized and held Corps of Engineers, is now 2 at the Sheraton Park Hotel, inalienable rights of well in advance of any proposed legislation on bonding o more than 25 percent Washington, D.C. More than mankind. other public commitment. State plans are now wel complete. Conservationists 3,000 -leaders in industry, One of these basic rights, developed. It may be later than you think. Write Stat< contend that insufficient government, national organ the famous environmentalist Capitol Building, Cheyenne, Wyoming 82001. consideration is being given izations and universities are believes, is the right to hunt to overall ecological aspects, expected to attend. and fish. ' 8-High Country News Friday, July 31, 1970 VANISHI! l J This stretch of the Green River would be under water if Wyoming's plan to build the Upper K'endall Dam is realized. Tihe famous river is used ex· tensively by fishermen, ·boaters, and outdoor training schools. some 2s miles of free-flowing, blue-ribbon trout stream would be efiminated by the proposed reservoir. Winter range for some 700.900 moose would also go under water, thereby, in effect, destroying the moose. In the place of this beautiful stream bottom there would be a fluctuating reser· voir, often with mud flats showing. The dam site is northwest of Pinedale, Wyoming. The Green River Basin in Wyoming is a case history in misguided resource planning. Large, expensive dams of questionable stability would destroy valuable ·lands (some have been sold for $1 ,200 an acre), irreplaceable blue-ribbon trout streams and moose winter range, and create fluctuating reservoirs with extensive mud flats. .The pure waters of the Green would be diverted -to irri gation developments on poor, alkaline soils where the growing sea.son is 60 days in length and frost may oc cur on any day of the year. Largevolumesa.retobetak This is Soapholes Creek - Basin, west of the· Green Ri en over the Continental Divide and dumped into the Wyoming. This area is pro tion development backed b North Platte River. Both actions would seriou·sly de State of Wyoming. The la111 ~rade the water quality of the G.reen River flowing into which must be acquired by whitish patches in the photl ·Flaming Gorge National Recreation Area. the very poor quality soi~s. This area, within one-hour's driving distance of the suits in large quantities of Green Rinr by Soapholes 1 Jackson Hole, should be destined to become a nation vironmental factor and bee ~ ·ally recognized recreation area. It has every asset to 1five• shrubs for deer winter f»Ose the proJect• . . qualify for national prominence. It should not be des troyed fo-r the sake of economic prog.res·s here and now HitJh Country News-9 Friday, July 31, 1970 JG ACT? The New Fork River near Bit) Piney, Wyomint), would be dammed at this site, viewed from down river. The New Fork is considered by some to be equal in many respects to the more noted Green River. Wyomint)'s proposed reservoir on the river would cover some 25,000 acres, destroy approximately 26 miles of excellent fishint) and floatintJ stream, eliminate moose habitat, winter range Photos by Tom Bell for deer, and cut oH antelope migration routes to the desert. which drains the Soap'hole River and north of Bit) Piney, roposed for a private irrit)a- 1 by a S1 00,000 loan from the 11nd is virtually all public lancl by desert land entry. The oto are alkali salts indicatint) l,s. lrrit)ation of such soils .... Itt soft beint) carried into the rs Creek. Because of this en· Kendall Warm Sprint)s on the Upper Green River sustains a small minnow . ecause of the value of the n. unique in the world. The Kendall Warm Sprint)s Dace are found only in the er rant)e, conservQtionists ott· short stretch of stream formed by the flowintJ sprint)s. The springs and the minnows would IJO under Hie waters of the proposed Kendall Reservoir Oil the Green River. Here, interested conservationists view the exceptionally warm springs and home of the rare, little minnows. " on r I. ;..; 01 1 0-High Country News Friday, July 31, 1970 Trout Need ·care Level Suited For Good Eating· For Launching According to Forest Ser ~Fishing) • •• Trout fishing on the lakes should be removed with the vice and Bureau of and streams of Wyoming can thumbnail, Reclamation officials, the 1 be plenty of fun--and once the --and finally, the fish should reservoir water level at Hotspots frying pan is hot, the other be washed inside and dried Sheep Creek Boat Ramp at half of the enjoyment begins. with grass, paper or cloth. Flaming Gorge Reservoir A minimum of care shortly Moisture will evaporate as will remain high enough to In -Wyoming after the catch will insure the the fish cools so a few layers allow launching at Sheep flavor of these sport fish will of dry grass in the bottom of Creek through Labor Day. Northwest be at its peak. With this in the creel will help preserve The ramp is located at the mind, the Wyoming Game the fish. A light washing mouth of colorful Sheep Lakes, rivers and streams are clear with fishing good and Fish Commission offers before cooking will restore Creek Canyon. Because of the early in the morning and in the evening. Good bet for these tips for proper fish care. moisture. hills and cliffs surrounding August would be small streams north of Jackson. Polecat, A fish cleaned shortly after Another hint offered by the the ramp. it is protected from Arizona and Pacific Creeks should provide fine fly fishing being caught--especially experts pertains to the bigger violent winds and affords a with number 14 and 18 dry flies in brown or gray colors. during these warm summer fish . Larger trout, safe launching site most of days--will have a better taste. largemouth bass and walleye the time. There are no Uncleaned fish. left for hours pike often taste better when campgrounds adjacent to the Southwest in a creel. will often have an filleted. A simple method of ramp and there is no culinary Flaming Gorge is just fair for bank fishermen but unpleasant odor and taste filleting and skinning fish water. However, campers trollers are picking up some good fishing on Flatfish and when cooked. involves: ( ll Making a cut on and trailers can be parked in• Mepps weighted so they are fished fairly deep. The Ham's Expert fishermen each side of the backbone the large parking lot at the Fork River (between Kemmerer and the city reservoir) has recommend the following from the head to the tail. {2) top of the ramp where been producing some good catches of rainbows and browns steps be taken soon after then cutting along the un restroom facilities are in the 14-inch class. Spinner-minnow and worm com removing the fish from the derside of the gills, keeping available. binations are effective. water: the knife blade close to the --Split the fish down its ribs. ( 3) and finally lifting the stomach from the tail to slab of meat.Repeat the same New Areas Northcentral \\·ithin a quarter inch of the procedure on the other side. Boysen Reservoir is excellent for 2-4 lb. walleye. gills. Skin can be separated from Open for Mountain lakes in the Cody area are good for flyfishing --insert fingers through the a larger trout, bass or in the evening. The Clark's Fork has been yielding some fi sh's gills and remove the walleye by simply sliding a Recreation nice cutthroats. Tensleep Creek and Meadowlark lakes are gills and entrails in one knife between the skin and good for rainbows and browns. motion. meat. The strips of meat are Fifteen miles of major The Popo Agie river, near Lander, is low and clear and --The dark kidney line along then ready for rolling in fishing stream and many producing some good browns in the evening on flies. the inside of the backbone batter and frying or baking. miles of smaller streams, 75 acres of lakes,key recreation development sites, big game Northeast habitat, and domestic Streams in the Sheridan area are low and clear with livestock range have been good fishing reported for small browns and rainbows. acquired for public use in Trollers are doing well on Lake DeSmet for rainbows and Colorado. The transaction is browns in the 13-inch class and action is fast for perch and an exchange of real estate rock bass on yellow crappie jigs. between the Forest Service, USDA, and American Metal Climax, Inc. (AMAX). Southeast The total exchange in The North Platte River is still high but clear. Best cludes 8,960 acres of National fishing by floating stretches north or south of Saratoga. Forest lands which AMAX Mountain lakes in the Snowy Range area providing good fly needs for its Henderson fishing for small rainbows and brookies in the evening on molybdenum mining u14 black gnats. The Big Laramie is hot now for 10-12 inch operation on Arapaho rainbows and browns on Platte River streamers. National Forest. In.exchange, the Forest Service acquired IJ title from AMAX to 8,615 acres located in 15 different r Pork1n 9 ortos 1 tracts on eight National Forests in Colorado. :\ledicine How Rig Game Cnit In addition to fi shing Fishing Open waters and recreation lands This is a good place to fish and camp for August. There is formerly closed to general public fishing on about 5 1/ 2 miles of stream and numerous public use, the transaction In Rock Creek bea\·cr ponds. The two access roads to the unit lead to big includes about 4,000 acres of game hunting areas and campgrounds on the adjoining high-quality big game winter range. Other tracts are Rock Creek Reservoir, by U. S. Steel. The Wyoming :\ledichine Bow National Forest. The unit is located seven miles southeast of Elk Mountain, Wyoming valuable for livestock range '·•l"a ted in the South Pass Game and Fish Commission or watershed production. ·ou ntry southeast of Lander, has constructed an access Fifteen miles of roa_9 ~m R~ dS been opened to public road to a parking lot on the acquired on which there is .:-. hing through agreements south side of the reservoir. A presently no public right-of .. 1·o!ving the U. S. Steel portion of the access road is way. · ll"p .. the United States throug h the Shos hone ''The lands acquired by ! orest Service and the National Forest. the Forest Service will be Fishermen using the area \ yom ing Game and Fish developed to the benefit of <'qm mission. are requested to drive only on the existing access road and recreation, wildlife, Fishing at the reservoir livestock. timber and water .1 11! be allowed from June 1 to park in the designated parking lot. production," Deputy through October. 31 each Regional Forester Basil .\ear. The agreement wi th• the The reservoir is reached by driving south from Lander Crane said. l' S. Steel Corp., howevver, Crane cifed the following does not provide for public on Wyoming Highway 28 to hunting around the reservoir. the Louis Lake road (Loop particularly choice Boats or rafts may not be road). The Rock Creek properties acquired from used and swimming and Reservoir access road turns AMAX: Four miles of fishing overnight camping is north from the Louis Lake stream on Williams Foti prohibited. The lake serves as road 2 1/ 4 miles from High river; a stream and a lake a source of culinary water for way 28. the Chicago Lakes area on the plant as well as being the Good fishing for rainbow Mount Evans in Arapaho source of ore processing ·and brook trout is expected at National Forest; 3/ 4 miles of water. tQe reservoir. fishing on Emb·argo Creek in The 75-acre lake is owned a 280-acre tract on Rio Grande National Forest; 2 r- Crumps Creel Cohos 1/ 2 miles of fishing stream Wind River FISHING lltiDt;E and elk winter range on Lone Sporting Goods TltAIL.flt YIL.LA6f Bill Crump, District pounds, while Bill's three fish Pine Creek within a 1,913 acre Supervisor for the Wyoming weighed about 6 1/ 2 pounds parcel; one mile of the "Where All Sportsmen Meet.. 358 sites, all hookups. L•un• Game and Fish Commission, dry, showers. Groceries, ic., each. "Bob's big fish really Powder River plus recreation gas, propane, bo•ts, fishing Lander, right and his son, gave him a tussle," said Bill. development land; 2 3/ 4 ne•rby. Bob, left, h Most camping accidents there is no grab-handle low shouldn't happen at all. enough for them to reach. It is Here's some common wise to install one yourself mistakes and how to avoid that can be reached by them. children. When your hitching a Installing a tow hitch that trailer, make sure to insert extends several inches behind the spring bars in the hitch the truck or car bumper, is head sockets on the proper tough on knee caps and shin side. On some hitches there is bones. Many persons walking a right and wrong way. If you behind won't see it until they should have to raise and pre feel that stabbing pain. load the spring bars, don't do An outside mounted yard it manually! Many persons light above the coach door is a strain and grunt, using a tire positive safety measure. iron to lever the spring bars Be careful where you park up into the cradle-mounts. at night. Be sure there are no Results: A rupture or torn sudden drop offs or steep ligaments. Always use the banks. trailer dolly. · Be careful of clotheslines, Some beginners try water hoses and electrical dropping the spring bar from power cords. Clotheslines are PHOTO COURTESY OREGON STATE HIGHWAY DEPT. their cradles, without using usually strung up between a the lift-jack on the trailer. couple oftreesand usually at A fisherman cheeks his equipment at his eamp in a Forest Service They try using a tire iron to chin height. Feeling your way campground beside Elk Lake in the Cascade Mountains of Central Oregon. Oi p the bars down. Result: in the night through a maze of Skinned shin-bones. water hoses and electrical South Sister, one of the Three Sisters Peaks, looms in the background. One Many a smashed finger cords can be tough. Campers of many excellent trout lakes in the Cascades, Elk Lake is located on scenic have resulted when the driver can connect these hoses and miscalculated and rammed cords and lines in such a way Century Drive about 35 miles from the city of Bend. the bumper into the coupler. that they produce the least Your finger doesn't stand a possible hazzards. chance. Even after the motor Take caution in changing Wyoming Wildlife has been shut off and the tires. Most jacks supplied by driver takes his foot off of the the manufacturers·a·re.in my brake pedal the car will roll opinion, unsafe. I replaced forward. Remember: keep mine with a 3-ton jack which Talks about Hunting your hands off the coupler. has proved safer. Electrical couplers can be If you ever have to jack up Professional outfitters, combined efforts make up the issue, Dick Keeney, Wyoming stubborn and baulky. They go a truck with a jack of un guides, game managers and August issue of WYOMING Game and Fish Commission, together easily, but when it certain strength, try this. hunters have put their skills WILDLIFE Magazine. tells how to get the meat off comes time to uncouple they Collect several blocks of and big game hunting Within the covers of the the mountain without a horse. seem to be jammed tight. wood, or some other means of knowledge on paper and their annual big game hunting "With teamwork and high Most people brace them blocking up the axle. Do not country experience backing selves and give a mighty pull. remove the wheel. Operate Where the Action Is us up, we have developed Result: A bruised or cracked jack slowly under axle. Keep mulish attitudes and methods elbow or skinned fingers your head down and just as that enable us to take the when the coupler pulls free. soon as the tire is off the lAUGUST EVENT Place meat from the mountain to The safe way to remove the ground, place the blocks of our camp," Keeney writes. coupler is to grasp it firmly wood under the axle. Then Aug. 1-2 --Gift of the Waters Pageant Thermopolis Assistant State Game and rock it from side to side remove flat and replace with Aug. 1-2--Thermopolis Rodeo Thermopolis Warden Rex Corsi adds an as you work it out little by spare, then reverse the Aug. 4-15--Yellowstone National Park Wilderness extra bonus to the monthly little. This is slow, but it's process. Never crawl under a Trip Yellowstone magazine with a hunting better than wearing your arm vehicle that is up on a jack! Aug. 6-9--Wyoming Amateur Golf Tournament Torrington forecast that gets down to the in a cast for weeks. Always remove the spare tire Aug. 7--Square Dance Laramie nitty-gritty of hunting Ever had a runaway from the rack first. " Aug. 7--Rodeo Dubois prospects for this year as well trailer? This is the result of Aug. 8-9--Pinedale Boat Club Regatta Pinedale as listing the estimated parking and unhitching on Aug. 8-9--Drag Races Cheyenne numbers of big game animals ground that is not level. It's Aug. 9--Stock Car Races Riverton harvested last season. pretty hard for one man to Permits Issued Aug. 10-15--HotSprings County Fair Thermopolis handle a runaway trailer. The Aug . 10-15--Western Plains Fair Cheyenne William Wilkinson of best way to stop it is to grab To Landowners Aug. 12-14--Sheridan County 4-H Fair Sheridan Medicine Bow tells of his the safety break-away cable Aug. 12-15--Niobrara County Fair & Rodeo Lusk son's first hunt in Wyoming. and yank back on it with all Special landowner permits Aug. 13-15--Albany County 4-H Fair Laramie Wilkinson briefed his boy on your might. The result will are available to bona fide Aug. 13-15--Weston County Fair Newcastle the finer points of hardware close the electrical contacts, ranchers whose deeded land Aug. 13-15--Park County Fair Powell use and hunting techniques- thus locking the electric is used by the species of big Aug. 13-16--Sweetwater County Fair Rock Springs and they paid off. At 14, young brakes. Release them again game animals for which the Aug. 13-16--Uinta County Fair Evanston Bill took a moose, antelope, by inserting the pin back in permit is issued. (Landowner Aug 14--Paint Horse Show Cheyenne deer and elk during his first the box. permits are not issued in Aug. 14--Rodeo Dubois hunting season. Loading or unloading a areas open to the hunting of Aug. 14-16--Teton County Fair Jackson Professional outfitter camper 'coach is usually a antlered elk on a non-permit Aug. 14-16--Sublette County Fair Big Piney Edward Bowles from Afton simple, uncomplicated basis.) The deadline for Aug. 16--Trap Shoot Cheyenne tells how to pick a guide, what procedure. But sometimes receiving 1970 permits was Aug. 16-18--Big Norn County Fair Basin to expect, what to bring and the loader jack begins to slip August 1. Aug. 16-23--National 0-Mok-See (Pattern Horse Racing) how to prepare for the hunt. A or fold sideway. The first Landowner permits are Sheridan guide and outfitter directory thing to do it get out of the deducted from the number of Aug. 17-22--Carbon County Fair & Stampede Rawlins is also included in the August way fast! Never try to hold permits allotted in special Aug. 17-22--Fremont County Fair Riverton issue. Copies are available on one corner of the coach permit areas and are not Aug. 18-29--Yellowstone National Park Wilderness Trip the newstand or on a sub yourself. No matter how subject to participation in the Yellowstone scription basis. strong you are, a man can't regular permit drawings. Aug. 19-22--Campbell County Fair Gillette cope with a 3000-pound, fully Applicants having questions Aug. 20-23--Platte County Fair & Rodeo Wheatland loaded camper coach. concerning their property Aug. 20-29--Western Teton Wilderness Trip Jackson Round~op Don't ever pour soapy dish and special elk and antelope Aug. 20-22--Lincoln County Fair Afton water out the back door of a areas should contact the Aug. 20-22--Goshen County Fair Torrington Mtn. Motel camper. This will result in deputy game warden in their Aug. 20-23--KTWO-Buick Pro-Am Golf Tournament Casper CABLE 1V slippery steps and possible area. Aug. 21--Rodeo Dubois injury to the next person that Aug 22--Square Dance Laramie AIR CONDITIONED .:. enters the coach. ... Photo ~y Randy Wagner l Just one hundred years a9o, the hotel was built in tile boomin9 90ld minin9 'truction of the historic settlement. Prans call for a maior recreation ~ ' :camp of South Pass City in Dakota Territary. Today, it is bein9 recon• historic area to be developed by the Recreation Commission and the Bu :structed by the Wyomin9 Recreation Commission in the first maJor recon· eau of Land Management, centered around South Pass City. development using Burnt would lead to shore erosion Another potential aquifer of Dr. Leopold said clearcut Green River ... Lake and Boulder Lake for and a changing of all the high enormous extent lies along timbering increases the pumped storage and power quality aspects of the lake. A the northeast flank of the water yield from a forest but (Continued from page 1) development. Such a plan fluctuation of seven feet, Wind River Mountains in the practice also significantly would require a dam on which had been anticipated Fremont County and would increases erosion and found. The main beds of coal Boulder Lake to store an by the Bureau of be available for additional sedimentation. He said the are near Kemmerer, Rock amount ten times the current Reclamation, would lead to water supplies in either the Forest Service was not using Springs, and Wamsutter. storage. massive environmental Big Horn Basin or the Powder available technical people to He said the projection of Trelease said if the Upper degradation in and around River Basin. give them answers as to water use in municipal Kendall Reservoir would be the lake. Dr. Love was very critical possible results from tim industrial needs would in built, it would probably mean Dr. Love said he would like of both the Kendall and bering on unstable soils and crease more than ten times, a transbasin diversion of to submit an alternative Newfork Narrows Dam sites questionnable geologic areas. from 20,000 to 230,000-240,000 water by pipeline to the proposal for development of proposed by the State. He Bishop was asked if the acre feet. Much of the in Sweetwater River. If water in the Green River said both could be expected to Stale was considering dustrial need would be Newfork Narrows Dam is Basin. He said an enormous lose large amounts of water legislation to establish a required for irrigation built, water could by pumped underground aquifer (water through seepage and quasi-public agency to handle development. This includes back up to the Sweetwater. bearing sands) of pure water evaporation. revenue bonding for the 57 ,000 acre feet for the Dr. Leopold has ,done ex occurs in the area of Big Trelease was asked if the Green River projects. He said Seedskadee project below tensive hydrologic studies on Piney in Sublette County State's report and water plan legislation would be Fontenelle Reservoir. He said Fremont Lake. (He is one of (south of Pinedale). He said would point out the losses of desireable to provide it was also anticipated that the world's formost the aquifer was 6,000-7,000 fish and wildlife and to the mechanics for setting up another 3,000 acres could be hydrologists.) He said feet thick. He said it was not environment as a result of the state bond revenues. developed on the Eden Fremont Lake has qualities controversial and not subject dam building. His answer project. found in few other lakes of the to evaporation. It occurs in was that they had only con Trelease cited water needs world, including Lake Baikal the area where the proposed sidered the loss of land as I for private developemtnts in Russia. The water is so Wagon Wheel nuclear blast is determined by the cost of .,.v such as 40-Rod, Paradise clear that a measuring device being explored. It was fishing access which runs Public Lands. ~ Canal, Green River Supply can be seen at 28 feet, a discovered during the drilling about $800-$1,000 per mile of (Continued from page 1) ~ Canal, the West Side project clarity practically unheard for the project. stream. and the Buckskin project. The of. Dr. Love asked the Comments from ranchers emphasized that fact that the latter anticipates develop The lake is formed by question, why build large, in the reservoir area in report is a consensus and that ment of 20,000 acres southeast glacial moraines. It has a controversial dams when the dicated that State had used it is more important that of Pinedale. sounded depth of 603 feet and State could sell 500,000 acre the figure of $46 per acre to understanding be achieved He said irrigation a great expanse of the bottom feet of water to the lower compute costs of land rather than unanimity. development in the Upper is flat with an average depth basin states and use the acquisition. This was pointed The Public Land Law Green River Basin, which of approximately 600 feet. money to develop wells - out to be an unrealistic figure Review Commission, com includes all of the private Oxygen in excess of that when the water was truly since some lands has already posed of 6 Presidential ap development, would depend required to sustain tro·ut needed? He said the been sold for $1,200 per acre. pointees, 6 members of the on a storage reservoir or the occurs all the way to the desireability of piping water A question was asked as to United States Senate, 6 use of natural lakes. This bottom. The lake water is trans basin (to the Pia tte what happens to water members of the House of would ··make the Kendall nearly neutral, meaning it is River) was very costly and quality when irrigation water Representatives, and the Reservoir an imperative. The much like distilled water. not necessary• . is put on such highly alkaline Chairman, who was chosen alternative would be to use There is no bacterial con Dr. Love also said there soils as the proposed Seed by the 18 appointed members, Fremont Lake where an tamination which can be was a known aquifer along skadee project, the Soapholes submitted its report to the anticipated three foot fluc detected and there is no the Sweetwater River which country and others in the President and the Congress tuation of the lake would be eutrophication (aging) drains into the Platte. This area. Dr. Leopold said the on June 23, 1970, with a total required. _ detectable. aquifer is some 2,000 sq. mi. water would be degraded by of 400 recommendations for Both Bishop and Trelease Dr. Leopold said a fluc in extent and has already both agricultrure and in revision of public land spoke of an alternative tuation of the water level been extensively explored. dustry. policies.