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Vol. %. No. 29 Ftiday, August 14. 1970
'Antelope Under Gun; One -ShotSchedul ed .This year's hunting season 'an outgrowth of the old North in Wyoming will start off with Rawlins-Table Rock area. a bang' on Sept. 5. The state's The season will close in these most popular game animal, areas (57 & 29) on Sept. 13, the pronghorn antelope, will 1970.This year, 950 resident come under fire for the first and non-resident antelope time this year in the Chain permits were made 'available Lakes and Table Rock areas. in these areas. 'These areas appear on the Bill Crump, 'district hunting orders' as' areas 57 supervisor of the Wyoming, and 29 respectively and are Game and Fish Commission, reported tha t the Chain Lakes and Table Rock areas are the best trophy hunting areas in the state. Crump also said Ski Meet Is that the broad, open desert country in this area was very popular for campers. He 'also At Casper noted that many hunters will be going out prior to opening The' Wyoming Open I'n- day with camping vehicles to vitational Water Ski Meet make "a .week of it" by will be hosted by the Casper combining camping and rock Water Ski Club this year. The hunting with their antelope meet will be held Sunday, hunt. SeptemberS, beginning at 8 Along wtth . the annual a m, a t the casper Clu b opening of hunting season quarters at Alcova Lake. comes the One Shot Antelope Registra tion will begin Hunt held here in Lander , Sa turday, Sept. 5, and con- each year. Final preparations tinue until event time on are being made for the state's Sunday. Practice runs will be famous event which will take held on Saturday. place on Sept. 19, the day that There will be slalom, trick most antelope areas will open and jump events for junior for hunting. . _ boys and girls, through senior The past shooters will begin men and women. Three place arriving in Lander on Sept. 17 trophies will be presented for with registration scheduled at each class in each event. the Fremont Hotel. There will For further information, be competitive shooting later the Casper Water Ski Club' in the day to be followed by a Photo by Pat Hall may be contacted at Box 536, business meeting of the Past II' III casper, Wyoming 82601. (Continued on page 16.) , Boating is at its best; the beauty is unexcelled' on Flaming Gorge Reservoir in Flaming Garge Natianal Reereatian, Area in Utah and Wyoming. Engine Growls, Aren1t Always What They Seem The automotive industry engine compartment and welder's gloves and a heavy and their advertising people . came face to face with the coat, removed the kitten to a have recently called much, growl--a two month old cage. a ttention to animals-- bobcat kitten with a smear of Thompson assured particularly the cats. 'Any grease on his nose and a chip everyone after his half-hour television-watching kid can on his shoulder. contest with the kitten that tell you that tigers live in Cheyenne Game Warden the baby is in good condition tanks, the Cougar is a sporty Francis Gradert and Office possessing the normal Mercury and the Wildcat is Warden Dave Thompson reflexes and' temperament of not only a name for a bobcat answered the call and, with a healthy bobcat. Mobile but a Buick, too. the help of a length of rope living, however, is not for A Cheyenne, Wyoming, and the protection of a pair' of everyone. mechanic has his own story to tell about cars and cats. Rodman Robertson, a • 1 1" " 111111 " I II ~ .mechanic for " Tyrell Chevrolet in Cheyenne, Wel.come reached for the hood latch of We take this opportunity to welcome the former readers what should have been just I; of, THE JACKSON HOLE VILLAGER. Through Mr. another repair job. A fellow Norman Lynes, publisher of The VILLAGER, we have by the name of Neil Heeman acquired the unfulfilled subscriptions to that paper. We of Cheyenne brought it in hope our new readers will find HIGH COUNTRY NEWS a Thursday morning after worthy and sa tisfactory substitute. This CAMPER OF THE WEEK hos sta~ for the eve- hearing a growI under the The Editors and Staff ning in this secluded spot alang Dead Indl.. hood. Creell I. Robertson peered into the t lli~,•••, , ,•••,••, ,•••" _ ,.1 I.~ ,.I••II I ,I .. tt1e Sunlight Basin of Wyamlng.
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2-High Country New•. '... Friday, Aug~st 14, 1970
. President Nixon has' told Congress, and thereby the American people, that there must be massive changes in our life style, our govern- ment operations, and our industrial, , technol~gical. complex if we are to escape "ecological disaster." . He told us. "We must seek nothing less than a basic reform in the way OUr.society looks at problems and makes decisions." And in addition " '" in dealing with the environment we must learn not how to master nature but how to master ourselves, our institutions, and our technology. " The President has a long way to go to span. the vast credibility gap between his own words and deeds. His words sound great but his actions on _ such matters as the ~ST and funding for water pollution control and giving the timber industry Iree license in the' national forest leave something to be desired. No matter what his actions, we can heed his ". Photo by Pat Hall words. And, in fact, we must do so. Whether or Hunters will soon toke to the field after 'Wyoming's fleet pronghorns .. not he believes them himself, they are words of wisdom by which we must guide our own actions. Thousands of these beoutifulgo';'i! animals roam the vast open spaces af Each of us has grown into a life style which can the We.t. only lead us to "ecological disaster" if we per- sist. And the more affluent we are, the more dangerous we are to ourselves and our fellow man ... The first annual report of- the Council on En- vironmental Quality, in which Mr. Nixon's words are quoted, tells us we compose only 6 percent of L e t t e rs To the world's population. But we consume 40 percent of the world's energy. and natural resources. For how much longer can we continue The Editor in that life style? How much longer will the rest of the world let us continue?' . We have aU' succumbed to "the bigger is - better" syndrome. We all seem to believe "the more, the merrier" in our human societies. Once Dear Editot:j My Dear Friends, give the Council a generous it was sinful to waste (remember "waste not Arrived home safely a boost. want not"?). Now, it is economic disaster - timed In the article "Colorado couple of weeks ago after a Sincerely, obsolescence is built into every product. Magazine Airs Resource wonderful two weeks spent in M.E. Page The. roughened, red hands of our grand- Feud" in the July 17 issue, I the Lander area. We camped 3118W. Newhall St. mothers .weren't very nice. So we devised was disappointed to read that the entire time up in Sinks Milwaukee, Wis. detergents to keep 'their hands 'soft:' First 'tile tile Wyoming'Game and Fish Canyon and 'enjoyed every. EditorS Note: :,'Yur, innovations wrre JqaJIlY and. then: they ~ere-" Commission has "forbiddent minute of it .:Only sorry that' filled with phosphates. ' . Department officials to speak time ran' out much too soon. I suggestion is well taken We And so it has gone. up in cases where recreation expect to be back to Lander have carried articles and Every individual citizen has a responsiblility, and wildlife are 'being Oct. 1 to spend the entire notes on the Hells Canyon battle in earlier issues but will not only to himself and his own well-being but to threatened by commercial .. month, so l'rn already be glad to do an article and a society, to maintain a livable world. But he has development. If the Game making plans for this trip. center spread. We'll see what to be shown and led. and Fish professional men My new "super" edition of we can do about that. In the Joe Blow from Podunk who sells shoes or can't speak up to defend High Country News arrived meantime, OUf readers can builds houses, or tends steel furnaces, or raises ou tdoor . recreation and on July' '23. I certainly did help the cause by taking a $5 hogs can't be privy to even a smattering of the wildlife in Wyoming, who enjoy the large, new paper. I membership in the Hells information available about our environment, can? have only one complaint- two Canyo.i Preservation Council He only knows what he reads in the papers or weeks is just too long to wait at the address given above by sees on the tube. Paul J. Gerling for the paper to arrive' reader Page. Thanks for your The Henry Ford's can make it their personal Shawnee, Kansas See you in October! letter and suggestion. business - and a part of their corporate business. All good wishes - So can the 50 governors. And the 100 senators. Editor's note: That's a good Sincerely, And the many more who lead and direct our question! Why not ask the Mrs. Keith S. Brigham * * * daily lives. Wyoming Game and Fish Rte. 1, Pardeeville, Editor: .~ut '!Ie are not getting the leadership. The Commission. James B. White Wisconsin. VISIOnIS too narrow and too myopic. I have only is the director, Box 1589, I read the article on Charles tolook at my ownstate to see what we are getting. Cheyenne, Wyo. 82001 Editor's Note: It was our Farmer and found out that Governor Stanley K. Hathaway has cried for pleasure to have Mrs. (Jean) there is a magazine entitled almost four years about the need for industry so Brigham drop in and visit us Wyoming Wildlife. I wonder if we can keep all our young people at home. He is earlier in the summer. We you could give me the address severely criticized by his opponents in the op- will welcome her back in of the magazine and sub- October. We invite any of our scription cost per year as I posite party for allowing this to happen. HIGH COUNTRY NEWS Everybody nods sagely that what we need is Published Bi-Weekly at 259 readers to stop and see us on ·would like to subscribe to it. more industry and more tax base so we can Main St., Lander. Wyoming the way through Lander or Any help will be appreciated. provide more jobs for more kids. 82520. Tel. . 1'307-332-4817. when they are here camping, Thank you. A few people hesitantly say that maybe what Copyright, 1970 by Camping fishing or hunting. Last week, we need are fewer kids. But immediately that News Weekly, Inc. two of our readers from .Darlene Cochran raises a storm of objections. Abortion or family Entered as Second Class Mat- Michigan and Indiana did just 225Shoshone Dr. ter, August 26, 1969 at the planning assistance are immoral in Wyoming. that. The latch string is Carmel, Ind. 46032 Post Office in Lander. Wyo- always out. Or to phrase our When recently questioned about proposals to ming under the act of March liberalize Wyoming's 1890 abortion law, the 3, 1879. western welcome another Editors Note: For Miss Governor said the main emphasis now seems to way, Light down and set a Cochran and our other be centered on population control! He says, NEWS DEPARTMENT spell, Friend. readers who may be in- Charles J. Farmer-Co-Editor Thanks for your kind terested, Wyoming Wildlife is "Here 10 Wyoming, we. don't have over- Tom Bell-Co-Editor population problems"!! comments, Jean. the official publica tion of the Joann Ostermiller-Editorial Wyoming Game and Fish .It makes you wonder if we select few here in Assistant Wyoming are not off on some wonderful new ••• Department. It is an ex- planet where we can begin the job of raping and PUBLISHING cellent, monthly publication DEPARTMENT plundering all over again. . Editor: which may be obtained for $2 Ronald A. Johnston-Manager Let me add to Mr. Ebeling's per year (3 yrs. for $5). Send To me, the most inassive changes might be Ray E. Savage-President undertaken amongst the high' and mighty here on Thomas A. Bell-Vice-Pres. letter about the threat to · to WYOMING WILDLIFE, Planet Earth: Mary Margaret Davis- Hells Canyon. The Hells Box 1589, Cheyenne, Secretary /Treasurer Canyon Preserva tion Wyoming 82001. Council, P. O. Box 691,Idaho Wyoming also has another CIRCULATION Falls, Idaho, is organized to excellent, color magazine, DEPARTMENT The Good Life in WYOMING. Box K, Lander, Wyoming preserve tha t area and is 82520- Tel. 1-307-332-4877. doing a fine job. A story about A one-year introductory Marjorie Higley-Manager the Council's efforts would, I subscribption sells for $3.09; Subscription Rate $5.00 yearly believe, alert your readers of a two-year offer costs $5.15. Single Copy Rate 200 . the dangers to one of ·Send to In Wyoming,. Box 2108, Casper, Wyoming 82601 AJIl,~ica '59~~~nd~;sJ~nd_'l~~~g\.. ":J~) . b b:tnl. _ .....L_
\ High Country N~ Fort Pecic -Added GuestEdi tcrial -To Historic Sites by Albert L, Baum The Fort Peck Agency in use by the Indian Bearding Fremont, California Poplar, Montana is' the School. Treasure State's latest Remaining buildings Since 1872,when Congress drill holes and excavations Insular Affairs. Ignored was addition to the National inclue: the academic building passed the first minerals act cannot be filled if they are to the demand of the cattlemen Register of Historic Places. and quarters, completed intended to encourage the be explored annually with and sheepmen that the The announcement was made 1907; dining hall and kitchen, development of the mining newly. developed scientific prospector's license to today by Wesley Woodgerd, built 1915;hospital, built 1916 industry, the nation's forests instruments. ·To protect wantonly destroy be with- chief of recreation and parks and later remodeled; and the and grazing lands have been themselves against' civil drawn and that the repair for the fish. and game jail, built 1920. open to wanton destruction by damage suits, most (filling and grading of ex- department. . the mining interests. Each prospectors file yearly af- ploration pits, trenches, drill Camp Poplar was once a year since the passage of the fidavits of assessment, even holes, and roads, in addition substantial military post Fish, Wi Idlife misguided legislation, the when their claims are wor- to the reseeding' _or immediately- adjacent t9 the productivity of thousands 'thless. IMost affidavits of reforestation of the damaged Indian agency. None of the upon thousands of acres has annual assessment are surfaces) be required by' military buildings remain Jurisdi ction been destroyed. This un- fraudulent because proof of federal law. Tragically, the today. restricted devastation of a .costly assessment work is not Committee left unchanged In the winter of 1868-69the Is Proposed century will continue unless a filing requisite.) In time, the limitation that claims of first sub-agency was built in Congress, this session, with- when the like-lihood . of prospector damage to 'public thisarea to furnish rations to Interior Secretary Walter draws from the mining in- damage suits is diminished, and private lands had to be the lower Assiniboine, Santee J. Hickel is proposing a broad terests their Iicense to the valueless claims are settled in civil courts. Also Sioux, Gros Ventre and River policy, statement aimed at destroy. abandoned or are sold to - left unchanged was the Crows. The main purpose for clarifying federal-state The principal mining laws buyers whose identites and pro s pee t or ' san n u a I this sub-agency called Fort jurisdiction over fish and, which allow the unrestricted addresses are' in- assessment l o opho le ; Browning' was to keep the ,resident wildlife, the Wildlife ruination of public and determinable. Even the whereby the mining interests Indians from going to Fort Ma na gernent 'Institute private lands were enacted as agencies of the Federal escape the responsibility for Benton where trouble' was reports. . the minerals acts of 1872and Government (U. S. Forest repairing their damages 'to growing as the numbers of The framework for the 1887and were followed by the Service and Bureau of Land the land. settlers arrive. This agency long-awaited proposal was Stock Raising Homestead Management> responsible for A typical excerpt from the was. called Fort Browning prepared by a federal state Act of 1916.Under the acts of the protection of public lands hearing minutes (Report 33- and was located south of the joint committee of Secretary 1872and 1887,the surface and . admit the futility of filing 504is obtainable from the U. Milk River, across from the Hickel's request. The special mineral estates . were suits for exploration damages S. Government Printing present town of Dodson. It- committee included three reserved by the Federal against the mining interests.' Office) is quoted to reveal the. operated until 1873. officials froni the Depart- Government, Under the act of private attorneys are in senseless destruction being Meanwhile, in 1871 an ment of the Interior and three 1916, the surface estate general 'agreement against wrought on the'land: (part of agency was established at directors of state game and became patentable, but the attempting to recover from the statement made by Van Fort Peck to serve the lower' fish agencies who government reserved the prospector damages to ·R. Irvine, President, Assiniboine and several Sioux represented the International mineral estate, All of these private lands because the Wyoming Stock" Growers bands. The. agency was Association of Game, Fish mining laws allow the mining' annual assessment loophole Association), "I have per- situated within the stockade and Conservation Com- interests to enter, these lands exempts the prospector Irorn sonally been through two at Fort Peck. In 1877the Fort missioners. without restriction or damage liability. • invasions by mining people. Peck Agency was moved to Conservationists are regulation and prospect for The absolute power of the One during the 1950's and one its present location at Poplar. supporting the. proposed minerals The mining in- mining lobby was most covering about the. last 3 This new Poplar River policy stating that it will terests are free to prospect recently demonstrated (July. years. So fat not a scrap of Agency was one of the alleviate much of the current without notification, per- 2, 1969) when the Sub- uranium has been uncovered government's -early and confusion which shrouds mission, bond, or fee. They committee of the U. S. Senate on my ranch but one hell of a successful experiments, at federal-state -.jurisdictio.n are at liberty to bulldoze on Interior and Insular Af- lot of raw rock has been placing friendly and hostile relative to preservatio.n, roads, dig trenches and fairs, held a public hearing in exposed- by buIldozerand tribes together on the same management and use of fish ditches, dam streams, drill Casper, Wyoming, for the drill. The Diamond Ring reservation to minimize troop and resident wildlife. holes, carve the hillsides, and purpose of hearing com- Ranch has thousands of acres needs. The :statement was published in the Federal pollute the water table, < plaints of damage to publlc . punctured excessively by Late in 1880,the army sent leaving the unrepaired and private lands by the 'drill holes from 2 inches to 3 the 11th infantry from Fort Register, July 17, 1970, to. landscape to be mutilated mining interest and for the . feet in diameter and from 10 Custer to establish a post solicit public response. In- further by the rain and wind. consideration of legislative feet to several hundred feet in (Camp Poplar) at Poplar terested persons may submit Since the passage; of the r e com men d at ion s to depth. It is unsafe to gallop a Creek to help bring in the written comments to the firs t mining act, repea ted Congress, (Congress, in 1964, horse on many thousands of Indians who had scattered Secretary of the Interior, attempts by federal officials had established the Public .acres of the Diamond Ring. after the Battle of the Little Washington, D. C. 20240 by and private landowners to Land Law Review Com- Muchof our lambing area is Big Horn in 1876,The army August 16,1970.At such time; promote legislation mission, a body directed to pockmarked 'with these holes post was active until 1893 if comment is favorable, the restricting the ravishment of report to Congress before : and, needless to say, many of when it was turned over to the proposal will become official the land by the mining in- June 30, 1970, on the ad- - them now contain the Bureau of Indian Affairs for policy. terest have been futile. ministration of, public land decomposed bodies of baby Without question, -the lobby laws.) The speakers before lambs. I can't intelligently representing the mining the commission ,were, . comment on other small interests has been the most principally, , ca tt lem en, animals." These .holes, under effective lobby in our 'nation's sheepmen, timber operators, present circumstances, will capitol. Most recently, in and mining and petroleum exist for generations." (The 1949, in response to, in- representatives, The mining drill holes are left unfilled by numerable complaints of, and petroleum represen- the mining operators, In a wanton damage by the tatives spoke in unison few years, many of these mining interests to public and against any changes to the holes become cratered into priva te lands, Congress present mining acts. and funnels by the rain, and the passed a minerals act against the enactment of any funnels grow larger and declaring that the prospector new law which might restrict larger.) "I mentioned was liable for. surface the industry. The owners of isolated situations. Let me damages caused' by his ex- land whose mineral estate is refer to one. One company is ploration and mining. open to exploration spoke a using indiscriminate However, like the short- singular complaint: The bulldozing' in my area. coming of' all ' previous prospector is able to enter Mountaintops are being minerals acts passed by public and private .lands sliced off, and valleys are Congress, a companion without restriction or being gouged up by an un- statute requiring the repair of regulation and may explore principled mining operator. public or' private lands for minerals and file claims There seems to be no damaged by the prospector without any evidence that response from any of the was blocked by the lobbyists. minerals exist beneath the public agencies responsible The Federal Government surface. In unison, these for the preservation and and the private landowner representatives expressed conservation of our lands, can .only recover from ex- the "urgent need for federal and under present law, there plora tion damages by civil legislation that would require is little I can do except haggle court action'. Invariably, the mining interests to. repair with the legal department of however, the prospector exploration damages to said mining company." escapes all liability by public and private lands, Mr. Van, Irvine. is but one .asserting that, under the T h-e y r e com men d e d of the many who have wit- mining laws, he is obligated revocation of the prospector's nessed the appalling .to perform . annual right to delay mining a claim devastation of the land by the assessment (development) site indefinately and still mining interests. He is not work on his claims or lose maintain title to the claim. atone in crying out in dismay. title to his claims, If his claim Unfortunately, the policies How much longer will This young bull moose appeors to be resting'· but h. ,. sites are to be developed, of the mining interests were Congress allow the wanton really waiting see which way "e phot09raph~r I. bulldozed roads leading to his adopted by the Committee in destruction of the American to sites can not ''paired if their post-hearing recom- landscape? Another century? heading. He was near Union Pass on ".e Teton Natlo .. site access, ,'c, to be mendations to the full ) i, t al For•• t of Wyoming. mainta.ined. ,e: the' Committee on Interior 'and ~"'CY""",,"-' -
, , 1l' ...... :: ••••• - ,< '.~J" ...... ~. ~ 4-High Country N.... T.eton Friday,Aug.st 1970 '4. Nationai 1'>. ,Forest ~ , ,,...~ ·1 " . g ...... , •\ Proposed ·m. • • with : r' I• : • Charles J. Farmer ~ , Recreation Area ....'~-~= •! I• Wyoming's sage grouseseason opens the last Saturday in :'i~ August and now's the time to sharpen. the eve for scat- tergunning. A- Sage chickens are not, considered speedsters among I-. .... upland game birds, but they can be deceptive on the rise. I 'Y .. Bridger have seen goodquailand pheasant shooters bloweasy shots ~:roposea. because of overleading or shooting too fast. ---\ -. Wilderness The majority of Wyoming bird hunters will open the .... season as coldas the openingday of last year's duckseason. Their shotguns, shells and bird dogs will take the brunt of Lake...Wi~~""""" I Wind River Indian all the excuses they have for missing easy shots. It is the Fre:;;~1 .' ridger sage grouse themselves,that suffer the heaviestcasualties...... Reservation Shots are taken too close or too far away without practice. Lake" !~ .. The results of being over anxious or not judging distance 187 Ll 'l... ) ....._ correctly are birdsshredded into clumps offeather and guts -" e • or birds tha t fallSOyards away and are neverfound. Pinedale : .... ~_ ....~" Popo Agie So for the pure and simple reason of con- ~-----'I\ Bridger servation ...respecting today's game bird for'the enjoyment "'a' ' he gives us, weshouldall try and become better shots. The =.. 'Wilderness ' other reason forimproving is that sharpening shotgun skills ,\. is a lot of fun. .• --'f!'- ,National ...... 187 ,a .. Forest Trap Helps -'-- '" IRecrea-\ There are pro and con arguments about whether or not : tion...... shooting clay targets (trap) is an aid to birdshooting.Some ...---... '.... _.J ~ bird hunters swear.that it messes up their timing or that \ ,-_ Area \ "field conditionsare a lotdifferent then shootingon a range "----., _.,~,~ when you are ready for a target." . ,- "'1 I feel that mostof these arguments are excuses for a lack '1 ;-.' I of time or just plain laziness on the part of the hunter. ..- Practice shooting at clay birds cannot help but improve upland game bird and waterfowl shooting.The same skills employed to bust a clay bird are essential to,clean field kills. . Trap shooting before the bird seasons adds confidence and most bird hunters know.that without t!!i!; virtue, ,,-day _ in the field can be frustrating ..Trap teachesa shot gunner to lean into the target; to concentrate; to swingsmoothly; to Bridger Recr-eation Area follow thrnugh; and most important...to become friends with the gun. Expensive H~bring 'Set, 1-or !V1onaay"", To achieve a degree of skill at any sport, time, money or A hearing will be' held at 'reaching the limits for valueswouldnotbe impaired. both seem tobe prerequisites, I have often thought that ~he Pinedale, Wyoming, Monday" crowding' . and ac- Observers point out that expense of a case of clay birds (blue rock) and several August 17, on Senator Gale commodation. A large even this large area has its boxes of shells could never compare to the expense of McGee's proposal for a national recreation in this limitations: Re c om- traveling several hundred miles for a bird shoot and then Bridger National Recreation location may help alleviate ·mendations will be made to failing miserably in the field, Sure, full bag limits do not Area. The hearing will be, the d'owding in the parks. study the area en-: necessarily meangreat hu'nts...there's moreto bird hunting conducted by Senator Alan A national recreation area vironmentally and then killing. But goodshooting promotes goodhunting. Bible,Chairman of the Senate disignation would not ecologically to determine an You may want to joina trap club or yoocan purchase a Parks and Recreation Sub- eliminate or prohibit optimum carrying capacity hand trap and practicein a safe area witha huntingbuddy. committee. . balanced-livestock grazing. It for human beings. The op- Either way, the practice will help your bird hunting this The proposed area includes would tend to restrict or end tirnum carrying capacity season. all of the west face of the . timbering in the areas which could then be used to Sage grouse seasonseems to sneak up onus every year. WindRiver Mountains within have been planned for clear- . 'determine distribution of Weare busy withfishingand camping. Ourmindspretty far the Bridger National forest. cut timbering. Watershed recreational facilities. away' from the green draws near Farson or Saratoga. The'Bridger Wilderness Area Maybe its your bird dog who reminds you .that time is lies at higher elevations drawing near to start packing both the shotgun'and fly rod. above the proposed area. The You just might take the dog on a few practice sessions too. proposal also includes an Ecologist' Appointed The poochis a greatfriend in the field. area encompassing the headwaters of the Green Edward F. Schlatterer, the Forest Service with a River within the Bridger ecologist, has peen.appointed broad and vaired background National Forest. to head the section of in range ecology, having Sea Otter Established This is 'an .are-a of Ecological Evaluation in the workedas a project leader for superlatives. It lies in the Division of Range the Montana Fish and Game Cooperative efforts by the ·large sea otter population. foreground of large, spec- Managemnt, Forest Service, Department, as a research Oregon State Game Com- Plans call for rein- tacular peaks, the highest in Regional Office, Ogden, fellow at the University of mission, the Alaska troduction of 30 of these theState. Some of Wyoming's Utah. In this newly Idaho, forester for the Nez- Department of Fish and comical and very intelligent largest natural lakes lie along established position, Mr. perce NationalForest, Idaho, Game, and the Atomic marine mammalS,possibly in the foothills , The Upper Schla tterer will serve as and range "conservationistfOr Energy Commission are July. As this herd builds, Green River is home for one specialist in the field of range the Intermountain Forest and establishing a Inew sea otter additional transfers ten- ofthe largest concentrations ecology with responsiblity for Range Experiment herd on the Oregoncoast, the tatively Willbe made to three ofShiras moose in the world. providing technical skills, Station. He served as student Wildlife Management In- other Oregon locations. Large herds of elk and leadership, direction, and aid for the Michigan stitute reports. ,A rocky, broken coastline numerous bIghorn sheep, knowledge needed 'for the Department of Conservation, Although once abundant and an abundance' of kelp deer, antelope, and bear Regional program of range the University of Michigan, along the entire north Pacific beds are the main habitat abound: ecosystem evaluation. He and the Fish and Wildlife coast, the sea otter was ex- requirements for the sea Somany game animals are works closely with the Service. tirpated by the early fur otter. It holds the distinction found here that the recom- Regional Forester's staff and Mr. Schlatterer is an active trade. It never recovered in of having the most beautiful mendation has been made to serves as a member of member of a wide variety of Oregon but populations do fur in the world, ranging in call'this the Bridger National special planning and study professional organizations, exist in several areas of, color from brownish to Wildlifeand Recreation Area. teams. includingt~eWildlife Society, california and fine herds are almost. black.', This The large, elongated area is In 1958, Mr. Schlatterer was the Ecological Society. of found along the Alaska restoration attempt, if suc- ideallysuited for recreational graduat.ed from the America, American Society Peninsula and Aleutian cessful, will augment sea purposes. It is situated within University ofMichiganwith a of Range Management, .as chain. The AEC became a otter'releases made last year 'a two·hour drive of BS degree. He holds a MS well as Xi Sigma Pi, Phi partner .in the program in Washington State and Yellowstone National Park. degree and a PhD degree Sigma, and Sigma Xi honor because of activities at ,British Columbia. Both Grand Teton and from the University of Idaho. societies. Amchitka.Island, whichhas Ii Yellowstone Parks are Mr. Schlatterer comes to
LANDER VALLEY FUE! • Rainbow • Girt/Ie Bug . COWBOY. RENTALS IIOUTH ON HWY. 287 E.. P. O. BOX x PHONE 307 ~.s:l"'.s:'lf'l ~ HAND TIED TROUT. • Fiddler', Nymph "fittollfe to Yellow5fone" STREAM'" ,.LIES • Renegod. LANDELWYCMIIIG . , -~~~.mt=-3 High Coantrt N~ -. . . Friday, A_gulf 14, 1970 WYOMINQ OUTDOORS . " Offic:ial Newsletter of I Wyoming Outdoor Coordinating Councit, Inc. • ThomasA. Bell, EcJitw ~, loa K, Lander, Wyoming 82520 ~~m 0,:, • ./ Council Directors Act On Wyoming Problems The Wyoming Outdoor Wy'oming's State government Coordina ting Council Board should involve and. inform of Directors meeting in cities through public hearings Pinedale recently took action on water problems' and water on a number of problems. The plans. meeting followed a public The Council also decided to meeting on' the Green River continue its own series of called by the Council. public informa tional The Council directors_ meetings on the Green River endorse the idea of state and what is known of State legislation for a wild and plans. ., scenic river system. They .The Directors recorn- propose that the Green River mended that jhe name of the from the Green River Lakes. 'proposed Bridger National to the mouth of ,Horse Creek Recreation Area be changed ~ be designated a state. scenic to Bridger National Wildlife river. and Recrea tion Area. They After much consideration also recommend tha t the road of impact of State water system not be expanded developments, the Directors before impact studies were proposed that losses of game made, and tha t environments and fish habitat, recreational' studies should be made to resources and other en- · determine optimum carrying vironmental resources be capacities by different uses calculated into the total cost on different areas. Finally, of projects. Such costs would they recommended that if then be included in the any timbering was planned financing of the project for any parts of the area tl''i't They proposed that such it be on a selective basis other losses be determined by a than a clear cut On August 3 & 4, Dic:kIrown (right I,Senator Gale McGee's local represen- competent agency or group In other business, the. totiv~. visited the Laramie Peak area w~ich is being proposed by conlerva- outside of State Government Directors discussed a tionists for inclusion in the national wilderness system. Art Fawcett. local As part of the proposal to possible compromise for: determine losses, the breaking the present impasse rancher and leader of the conservationist efforts on tftis area. conducted Directors propose tha t the on the Washakie Wilderness, an eleven mile tour which inc:luded Whiskey Creek, Roaring Farli and Last · and approved a broad policy funds to mitigate losses would Creek drainages. Above, Fawc:ett is explaining fire' scars on one Of fte be allocated to the Wyoming sta tement on recorn- Recreation Commission and mendations for the Glacier virgin ponderosa pines. This tree is close to 300 years old and has survived the Wyoming Game and Fish · Primitive Area. several forest fires.,. Commission. The funds would Finally, the Directors be used by those two agencies requested that the statutory to purchase or lease lands limits onsalaires in the Game through development and Fish Department. be The Directors passed a raised to competitive figures, En'vironmental College Proposed resolution requesting that or eliminated.
d : ••••••••••••••••••••••••••••.••• ,••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• : By Legislcitive Candidate An. "Environmental cum bents of the state In this pamphlet Behrens HELPI College of Legislators".· legisla ture to respond to his says, "While we recognize the The Wyoming Outdoor Coordinating Council needs help ... ECOl; . has been proposed by proposal, He has assured problem of pollution to be ": The Council is fighting the battle of conservation and the .a Democratic candidate for each of them that the names " world-wide and realize that environment ona broad front in Wyoming. We are being.hit the Wyoming State of those who respond by ourselves we cannot from all -sides by the demands for development, and in- Legislature from Fremont favorably will be given to the provide the total solution, we dustrial growth. Those who .'seek such development and County. The refreshing new news media and their voting want to show the world that \: growth give 'little heed to ecological and environmental approach to, environmental records on environmental Wyoming's legislators have considera tions. . problems has been made by issues will be made public. done their part." Wyoming has many wonderful natural assets. We could the Rev. Rollin Behrens of easily lose them if we do not plan carefully. The Ou tdoor .,' Lander, ' ': Council has been effective in calling public attention to . .Behrens has called upon all . ; possible .consequences ofdevelopment. This takes time and the legislative candidates and Sen. -Hansen Repli es :: money. But we-are undermanned and underfinanced, We incumbent state senators to greatly need more citizen support. , form an organization, <. Can you help us by contributing to a worthy cause? Weare dedicated to the protection On Eagle Program ,;: a legal Wyoming corporation but weengage in lobbying and preservation of the -: activities and therefore your contributions are not tax state's environment. The WASHINGTON (Special) - what might be done to help deductible. . proposed organization Sen. Cliff Hansen this week producers .cut down Iamb .: (ECOL) is designed to gather said he was hopeful the new losses," Hansen wrote . * *- * legislative support on en- protection program for the The senator from Jackson r: I wish to support the ... vironmental issues before the golden eagle announced by Hole said Hickel ioformed legislature convenes in Sec. of the Interior Walter J. him that "he would like very Wyoming Outdoor Coordinating Council, Inc. January. Hickel would work. '_ much to try the new approach lox K Lander, Wyomin9 825.20 Rev. Behrens says the Hansen replied to John for a time to determine if it general trend of our nation's Turner of M~~" Republican would. protect the Golden divid I $1000 leaders. has been to be candidate for the state Eagle, and allow the In IVI ua ------~----y_' . • "reluctant .followers rather 'legislature who last week prdducers to protect their A r $25 00 than spear headers" of the disagreed with, the senator' lambs." C tve ------.------.... ------" drive to reduce pollution and and Gov. Stan Hathaway on The program authortses Supporting ~_'---._~$lOO.OO . mlainttaiHnthe·qtualwity of. o~ allolwingbthekillingf °lrgOldekn issuance ofodindividuhalofperf- pane. e wan s yommg s eag es ecause 0 ivestoc mits to pr ucers w 0 er trib ti $'25000' legislators to reverse'this damage claims. 'proof that eagles. are killing" , Con rt u Ing',_----,,- . . up 1 trend and to take the lead in Hansen said in a letter to livestock. Name maintaining. the natural Turner that he had "not "I do not object to the \ beauty of the state' as an, written to Secretary Hickel secretary's effort to find a Street or Box -'- : \ -example' for the rest of the protesting the protected workable program that will nation and the world. status' of the bird." both protect a vital part Of our " City. ~State Zip __ -,,- In a Pamphlet Behrens has "What I did do, in May, was envoirnment and essential . outlined the principles, forward. a request from the industry in Wyoming and the " Membership InC:ludes s_scrlption to purposes, arid .projects of Wyoming Wool Grower's nation." Hansen wrote. "J . High Country Newi. • ECOL and by letter has asked • Association to thesecreatary, hope the program is ef-
: ~ • ,•••••• ., •••••• ' ., "-'.>"~. ,,-•• , ••• ,.. ••• ~ all tP.!!"candidate~ and. in~•. ~~J0':l~with ariinquiry as to fecti:l'e"~' ~ ~ '#!h1Sl,'('!J e~~,~_"'_'.. . • ~ '. " ...... ,r- ~'i'~".tl.:J ~"'- 6-High Country News Friday, August 14, 1970 Wyoming Wilderness Areas By Gene Bryan "The wilderness is near as Quality Way of Life." well as dear to every man." Whether you backpack with concentrated, foods and' "HenryDavid Thoreau (1869) small mountain tent, or straddle a saddle with your When Thoreau published ' gear diamond-hitched' to a these words, Wyoming was pack horse, the mode of still a part of the Dakota travel into the wilderness will Territory, 19 years away be as primitive as it was when from becoming a territory in Jim Bridger, William its own right and 41 years Sublette, Jedediah Smith and away from statehood. Today, the Northern Plains Indians at least in geological terms, roamed these same moun- Wyoming appears to finally tains. be reaching the age of The value of going into the adolescence. wilderness to refresh the Here, along the' great spirit and body has been Rocky Mountain backbone of understood by men before the United States; the Bibical times. mountain ranges of Wyoming "I went to the woods are geologically in their because I wished to live teens. Mother Nature, who deliberately, to front only the was most generous when she essential facts of life, and see created this portion of if I could notlearn what it had Mountain America, is still to teach, and not, when I etching growth marks in the came to die, discover that I Wyoming skies. The current had not lived," wrote U. S.Geological Survey maps Thoreau in "Walden, or Life indicate the Grand Teton in in the Woods." . the mountain range of the More recently, we have The high peaks of the North' Absaroka Wilderness Area loom in the distance. same name has grown four realized that in the habitable This view is from· Dead Indian Hill on the improve'" Forest" Service Road be· feet in recent years- areas of the world wilderness- tween Cody and the Sunlil,lht Basin in Wyominl,l.·, .stretcning up to 13,770 feet. lands might not always be - . Wyoming's mountains, available as a far retreat for with such fabled names as the us. In Thoreau's' day there Tetons. Wind Rivers, Ab- some deer also find habitat in Wilderness maps and trail sarokas. Medicine Bows and seemed to be more space for The western portion is a grow ing than the country region of tirrbered ridges, this area, along with black information are, available Big Horns. Provide the and grizzly bear. The rare through; Supervisor, Tetolr lifeblood for three of the would ever need, but our interspersed with mountain building nation, even then, meadows and grassy slopes. trumpeter swan is often National Forest, Jackson, nation's great river systems- spotted on Enos and Bridger Wyoming 83001 the Missouri-Mississippi, was reaching toward the Elevations in this section .Lakes. Fishing is ex- Columbia and Colorado: remotest of its lands. It was range from about 7,500 feet to 9,942 feet. High plateaus, ceptionally good. Wind Rivers harbor thousands of evident to some men as early At "Parting of the Let's pick up the Con- crystalflne lakes; nurture as the 1840's and 1850's that mountain peaks and deep, rugged, canyons mark the Waters" on the Continental tinental Divide again and nearly all the various forms without protection none of our Divide, Two Ocean' Creek follow it south across U. S. 287 lands would reain forever eastern portion. Here, of wildlife found in the divides and becomes Atlantic near Togwotee Pass. Here, Central Rockies centuries wild. elevations vary from about 7,800 feet to 12\165 feet on Creek and Paciiic Creek. the Divide starts its journey ago and nourish more than Teton Waters from one flow into the over the most prominent four million acres of Younts Peak. The geology varies, too. Atlantic watershed via the' mountain range in Wyoming- wilderness where the Immediately south of Yellowstone, Missouri and The Wind River Range . . geography and, ecology Yellowstone and northwest of Buffalo Plateau (southeast section) is composed the Mississippi Rivers, while From Togwotee Pass to remain the same as when the Grand Teton National Park waters in the other flow into historic South Pass the Wind 'e Bridger is home for moose, Creator molded it. lies the massive Teton bighorn sheep, elk and mule the Pacific Ocean via the Rivers stretch more than 100 Wilderness, 563,500acres in Snake and Columbia Rivers. miles. This granitic range Wilderness size and designated' _ a deer, and its 1,300 - The geology varies, too. This is the only location was thrust up in one of tbe In Wyoming, in the heart wilderness in 1955.The Teton where. this phenomenon is 'earth', greatest upheavals- of the Rocky Mountain West, Wilderness is bordered on the Buffalo Plateau (southeast section) is com posed mainly known to occur, _. the Laramide Revolution- the U. S. Forest Service has east by the South Absaroka Trail heads are located off which blocked out iorms from set aside eight wilderness Wilderness, making it of volcanic conglomerates that look much like river- -the Buffalo.Fork Road and U.. which all the Rocky Moun- areas in virgin loveliness possible ior an individual to worn rocks set -in cement. S. 89 and 281, and the Pacific . tains were formed. Then the permitting no lumberman's enter the western border of -Creek Road and ·Grand Teton glaciers, frost and water axe to fall, no road machinery the Teton and tra vel more Thorofare PIa teau (nor- theast) is formed of breccia National Park. Th,e trail erosion sculptured the to scar, no motor to break the than 80-miles to the eastern along Thorofare River was a granite towers and faces. silence and no cabin or border of the South Absaroka rock that also dominates the Absaroka Range. The principal route "of the Along the backbone of the permanent camp to crowd in and never leave wilderness. Shoshoni and Blackfoot In- Divide, clustered near with its civilization. The The name of the Teton western half of the wilderness is dominated by sandstones' dians. (Please turn to page 7) wilderness represents a last Wilderness is an anomaly-the frontier-the last bastion from area is unrelated' to the and shale. Good habitat for wildlife is . ['-~-"II_-_ the invasion of corn- Tetons geographically; it is a mark of the Teton ~YSI'.YT[N ·--r'T------:-c--.::...-~ mercialism. part of the Absarokas, The .~."...J .. This young country di vision- pf official super- Wilderness. Aportion of the . GLACIER PEAKitI . Jackson Hole elk - herd paradise is Wyoming's gift to vision, Teton National Forest, ,"'0C:::'~N:BM",~~:'I (largest single herd in the .GOAT ROCKS mankind, for the Cowboy titles it. _GATES OF THE MTNS worldo summers here. :1. ADAMS, State may very well be the . The Continental Divide [lWAY_BITTERRooT bisects the Teton ·Wilderness. Moose, bighorn sheep and ~T 8MT. HOOD ANACONOA·PINTLAR last stronghold of "The JEFFER'SON EAGLE CAP N RIVER BREAKS PEAKS' • BURIOOTH THREE fT, WASHING:N "IDA~O AeSAR~~ORTH ABSAROIl-A SiSTERS STRAWBERRY I SOUTH "'CLOUD PEAK DIAMO:O PEAK MTN. • .: BSAROKA~ KAlMIOPSIS SAWTOOTH TETO' STRATIFIED
CIER BRlllGERl ~. Are You Moving? __ .,---__ -1 " POPO ,/l,GIE \ • < MT. ZIRKEL' 'RAWAH HIGH UlNT"S fLAT TOPS PLEASE NOTIFY US IN ADVANCE • ,~ JIl!II'lIItI...... ', ...... -- , OLD Address , , Name (please print) i _.:.~. . State NfWAddress City • PRIMIT~VE AREA High Country N.__ 7 Friday,Augu~ 14, 1970 Wyoming Wilderness ••• (Continued from page 6) Gannett Peak (l3,785-highest and sheer faces of 1,00.0 to area takes its name are other 2,000 feet that attract in- highlights. point.Jn Wyoming), are the The, smallest of -the seven largest glaciers in the ternational attention from United ~. States outside mountain climbers. They Wyoming wilderness areas is come to climb Gannett, the Popo Agie Primitive Alaska. niese moving bodies Area, 70,000 acres in' the of ice crystal-cracking,. Fremont, War Bonnett, Cirque of the Towers- 'and to . Shoshone National Forest. c r e ak in g, s t r es s in g , Popo Agie is Crow Indian for straining-grind the rock into test their iceclimbing ability 'on the steep, blue ice of the "headwaters," Popo" flour and erode away the meaning head. and "Agie" great cirques which are glaciers. . meaning.' river. It· is locked in 'perpetual ·snow. In. The. 383,000 acres of the Bridger Wilderness contain .pronounced Po-poz-yuh. tlie south the glaciers have Again, extremely rough receded,". leaving ·.carved more than 500miles ,of trails .. topography is characteristic peaks', vertical pinnacles, Stretching more than 80 miles along the west face of the of the area ailing the' Con- deep canyons' and' sheltered tinental Divide, The region basins with patches of Wind Rivers, the Bridger is home for moose; bighorn. contains 75 lakes and is rich summer snow. in'.historical lore.' . 'three quarter million sheep, elk and mule deer, and its 1,300 jewel-like lakes Information and. maps acres of protected territory- concerning the Glacier and almost the whole ofthe Wind contain rainbow, brook, cutthroat and mackinaw Popo Agie Primitive Areas' River Range-are covered by are available 'from Super- three wilderness areas and trout, and above 10,ooofeet 29 lakes are habitat for the visor, Shoshone National the Wind River Indian' Forest, Cody. Reservation, whose moun- exotic California golden tainous sections have never trout. Leopold The primitive beauty, of' passed from the control and It wasn't until the 1920's ancient habits of the Indian. the Bridger is highlighted by the explosion of wild flowers. however, that any concrete In some area it is virtually action was initiated to Bridger impossible to walk without preserve the wilderness. Many of these far-sighted The Bridger Wilderness stepping on vast. arrays of white columbine, Indian individuals were in the U. S. ,Square Top Mountain in the Bridger Wilderness Area Is lies along the west face of the Forest Service. Led by Aldo paintbrush, arnica, yarrow, one of Wyoming's famous landmarks. Here, it Is viewed Wind Rivers. East of the Leopold, who later became a Divide, 200,000 acres of the mountain bluebell, Parry's primrose, buckweat, aster distinguished naturalist, their ac:ross Green River Lake whic:h provides easy ac:c:ess to Wind River Indian Reser- thinking influenced vation, designated as a and the unique and fascinting tile wilderness beyond. elephant head. The rare air recognition of wilderness primitive area, are sand- [ects and the' wild life Yellowstone Lake is the seems to enhance the values and benefits to the largest lake at such an wiched between the Glacier nation. So began the Forest therein ... by such means as brilliance of the flowers, and altitude. Primitive Area on the north Service concept of wilderness will leave them unimpaired and the Popo Agie Primitive your eyes continually return Thinking of Yellowstone to the riot of color found management; that of for the enjoyment of future' Area to the south, generation. " as a wilderness may be dif- .virtually everywhere'. designating as wilderness ficult for those caught in the The life zones in the Wind those lands predominately Wyoming's 97,914 square Ri ver Range are clearly Five entrance stations- Manhattan-like traffic on the Lower Green River Lake; valuable "as wilderness" so miles contain eight wilder- defined. A walk starting from ness type areas plus two Grand Loop road on July 4th, New Fork Lake, Elkhart as to manage and maintain but it's a fact that less thanl0 the Prairie or valley floor them indefinitely for their national parks that remain leaves the sagebrush and Park, Boulder Lake and Big per cent of the park's two Sandy-provide easy access. out-of-the-ordinary values. largely wilderness. The Teton cottonwoods along the river Wilderness in the Teton million acres has been Detailed maps and in- The Forest .Service bank, up to the aspen and the National Forest, Bridger developed. Too many con- formation are available from pioneered this concept in the sider'y ellowstone "explored" dominant tree-the lodgepole 1920's, Studies of the wild Wilderness in the Bridger pine, followed by the Supervisor, Bridger National by driving Grand Prix style Forest, Kemmerer, Wyoming lands began and in 1924 a National Forest, North Ab- Englemann spruce, limber saroka and South Absaroka around the loop in one day. 83101. large part of what is now the pine, alpine fir and finally Wildernesses, Glacier, 'Popa Get out of those cars! Gila Wilderness in New Yellowstone has more timber line. As you-approach Glacier Mexico was set aside. The Agie and Stratified Primitive timber line at 10,000feet, the Areas in the Shoshone than 1,000 miles of well- The Glacier Primitive establishment of the world's trees start to thin and become National Forest and Cloud marked trails through Area is part of the Shoshone first national. park- scrubby, and as you go Peak Primitive Area in the wilderness largely un- National Forest and covers Yellowstone in Wyoming in trammeled by man. The higher, they disappear 1872-and the subsequent Bighorn National Forest altogether and you are left 177,000acres of extremely comprise 2,354,892 acres, Howard Eaton Trail, named rugged topography, including action of Congress in 1916 in for a famous Wyoming with the sharp, naked granite bringing the National Park ranking Wyoming second and alpine tundra with its Fremont Peak, on the east only to Idaho in wilderness horseman and innovator of side of the· Wind Rivers. In Service into' existence was explosion of wild flowers and acreage. the modern dude ranch, numerable alpine lakes, another major step in circles the park for 150 miles. plants. "conserving the scenery and It is the hard, soaring, raw teeming with trout, and the Like Yellowstone, Grand the natural and historic ob- Parks granite peaks with pitches seven glaciers from which the Teton National Park is best The story of discovered via the hundreds Yellowstone has been of miles of trails. These well- repeated again and again for marked avenues afford almost 100 years: That it is magnificent views of the' the largest and still the most majestic Tetons, blue-grey fabulous of our national granite pyramids often parks, that it is America's described as the "most awe- largest wildl'ife sanctuary; inspiring sight in North that it harbors more than America." The trails 10,000 thermal features; in- penetrate into deep canyons, cluding 200 geysers; that (Please turn to page 10) . Photo by Finis Mitchell Fremont Peak is flanked by Jackson Peak. on tile 111ft Tall peaks of the Wind River Range dwarf Grave Lake in the c:enter of the and Mt. Sacajawea on the right. This Yost area of photo. The la~ge lake is along the north boundary of the Papa Agle Priml. peaks and glac:iers is loc:ated in' the Glac:lerPrlmltive tive. Areo on the Shoshone National Forest. Area. The area Is c:omlng up for wilderness review early this Fall. ,. 8-High Country News Friday, Auguof 14, -1970 Humo ,, Sighting Iii the ONE-SHOT ANTILOrEHUNT ... more than just a hunt. It iscom- radeship amongst the Past Shoot- ers, the new Team Members and the Hunt Personnel: The One-Shot, held annually in Lander,Wyoming, -dates back 27years when two men, one from Colorado and one from Wyoming decided to come back for another year of hunting with only _one bullet. The idea hung on and grew. Today, rncny fomous men be- long-to this unique club. Getting Two With One Shot , . \ HighCountry N~ Frid.y, Augint 14, 1m Fun lmor Photos by Stan Rice 'If • IS • ..' Ifyou haven't heard of the event it is because the hunt, by design, is not generally publicized. Forthat rea- son and out of respect to the One- Shot Foundation we do not make , names synonymous with the pic- tures in this issue: It is meant and has 'succeeded to be a private affair for 27 years. It is one place many note- worthy personalities can escape the: publicity which 'coincide's with their - . . ' . vocations. " Becoming A Blood Brother " 'll 'l>W'" 1111,~1~"''' , Io-High Country News Friday, August 14, 1970 Modern Pioneers Go In Handsome Style Pick-Ups, Super Station Wagons And. Four-Wheel Drive Offer. Comfort and Capability More and more famllies have discovered the bounty of the Great Outdoors ... and created a boom in the recreational veWclemarket. Mom, Dad and the kids are going out e;q,lor- ingtogether into countryonce 'reserved ·solely.to hunters, . • fishermen and luinberjacks. . . But While Dad might not mind using lumberjack transpor- tation, the newest trends in recreational vehicle design prove' th\l.tsuch major manufacturers as International trucks know they have to keep Momand the kids verymuch in mind. Rugged under the skin, but as carefully styled as any auto- mobile, today's camper-carrying pickups, all-wheel drive vehicles such as the scout; and trailer-towing Travelall 'station wagons, are offered with. many standard and option- al features specifically designed for family fun. Power, Maneuverability and Comfort Camper pickups, such as International's 1200D, come with a "camper package" of suspension and drive train options that ensure a smooth, comfortable ride over the highway, as well as the power and maneuverability to follow the roughest back trail to Dad's special fishing spot. Go anywhere! Recreational vehicles such as these oller 0 choice of t,avel and ou1· An increasing number of camper pickups, as a matter of door fun for everycste. From lelt to right are Internatio~.al truclc.sJ camper. p'idup, fact, are being ordered with a trailer hitch that will allow taking along the family boat, but also very much on the Tmvelalliour-cloor, nine~passenger station wagon, and Scout lour-wheel c/rive sport upswing is the popularity of AM-FM radios, air condttion- vehicle. OHereel with many styling anel travel.comfort op·tions. they',e also elesignee! ing, bucket .seats and custom carpeting. Special vehicles like International's Scout, once the cross- fo meet any kinel of ,ooel, Irom f,eeway to back.country lane. With optionol aI/- country workhorse of the timber cruiser' and the pipeline wheel eI,ive, al/th,ee no at.oll! contractor, have taken on need ,oad the characteristics of high- performance cars. Chrome, been popular with the hunter Crater, Cliff and Geneva racing stripes, color-matched Wyoming and dude rancher, and the Lakes. The 81 miles of trails carpeting and padded 'vinyl mountains and surrounding lead to 10 back country are now features of the best- foothills and plains were the campgrounds. selling Scout models. Simplified all-wheel drive , Wilderness .. • last hunting' ground 'of the Wildlife is found in great controls, and an optional "his (Continued from page 7) Siouz Indians. Only recently variety. including such forest and hers" automatic trans- have the alpinists discovered denizens as the elk, moose, .. mission, offer every driver in follow cascading streams and ding petrified tree trunks the spites and faces of the Big bear and deer. The tiny rock the family a chance to taste eventually lead to high alpine may be seen at the head of Horns, and the opportunity coney shores habitat with, the the special thrills of crossing meadows. Wildlife and wild Frontier Creek. for first ascents still awaits. sure-footed bighorn sheep on country the roads haven't flowers abound. Dozens of The North Absaroka Cloud Peak Primitive the many talus slopes. Wilderness encompasses reached yet. glacial lakes dot the land- Area contains 93,880 acres Information concerning In a vehicle class by them- scape. For the more ad- 359.700 acres and lies im- selves are the "super" sta- and was established in 1932, Cloud Peak Primitive Area is tion wagons like Interna- venturesome, the Grand and mediately west of and the entire area lies at available from Supervisor, tional's Travelall. Based on Mt. Moran stand as rugged Yellowstone National Park. elevations above 8,500 feet. Bighorn National Forest, a rugged truck chassis, and challenges t~ the mountain This rugged area is marked Highest point is Cloud Peak Sheridan, Wyoming 82801. even offering several models climber. by glaciers, petrified trees, a (13,165) from which the aree A wilderness experience is with the added feature of natural bridge and more of takes its name. Cloud Peak is a personal thing. The ex- all-wheel drive, the Travelall Absaroka The Continental Divide as the same volcanic remains named for its.cloud-capturing perience depends on the in- has been acclaimed as the that identify the Absarokas. it leave the Teton Wilderness summit. The area contains dividual, his environment, his ideal vehicle by outdoor ex- Such exotically named peaks perts. serves as a transition bet- 256 lakes and 49 miles of personal tastes. Some prefer as Hoodoo, Sunlight and Dean 'ween two wilderness areas- streams that offer rainbow, backpacking. Others ride Up to Nine Passengers Indian are found in the North the Teton and South Ab- cutthroat; brook and the horseback. Some fish. Others Offered with all the power, Absaroka. Pilot Peak (11,708) saroka. The South Absaroka California golden trout. hunt. Some climb. Others drive train and suspension and Index Peak (11,343) have capabilities also available on (505,552 acres) and adjoining Scenic vistas in the "like sometimes to take rank served as landmarks for International pickups, the Stratified Primitive Area primitive area include Cloud hold on life and spend my day human travel for centuries. Travelall adds two unique (202,000 acres) are soon to Peak itself with its for- as animals do." Some will Orrin and Lorraine major features - four-door become one large wilderness- midable and challenging gray never go...but they want to luxury for as many as rune Bonney point out in their the Washakie-if the proposal granite west face; Mather know the wilderness is there. passengers, and an appear- excellent book, "Guide to "The wilderness is near as ance that is cited for its at- now before Congress is ac- and Blacktooth Peaks and Wyoming Mountains and glacial gems such as Solitude, well as dear to every man." tractiveness. cepted. Wilderness Areas," that the Details such as wood-grain The Washakie Wilderness Absaroka Range absorbs five applique paneling, chromed is part of the Shoshone wildernesses-the North and roof racks and vinyl-finish National Forest in the Ab- • roofs, plus a fully carpeted South Absaroka, the Teton, saroka Mountains and lies and color-coordinated inte- the Stratified Primitive Area Oregon Dunes May Get about 80 miles southeast of rior are available. . and most of Yellowstone Park At the owner's option the Yellowstone. Access from the lying east of Yellowstone Lake Travelall can seat sixpassen- south is from U. S.,26 and 287 and River. All this, plus the Recreation Designation gers in air conditioned "big and from the east via Wyo car" style, yet also carry com- remainder of Yellowstone A favorable report on H. R. ministration's blessings, 120. . and all of Grand Teton plete vacation gear for all, The Absaroka stretch 778, a bill to establish the would place supervisory Capable, versatile, and at- National Park, forms the about 80 miles north and Oregon Dunes National responsibility in the U. S. tractive, vehicles like these largest-6600 square miles-and south 'and spread 50 miles in Recrea tion Area, has been Forest Service. Part of the are typical of what's happen- one of the most rugged and width. These lofty mountains forwarded by the U. S. attractive area already is in ing now that more and more untouched sections of the 48 families are gotng out to the are formed of volcanic Department of Agriculture to the Siuslaw National Forest. Great outdoors. contiguous sates. the House Committee On fragments, imbedded in finer Information on the South material, the composite Interior and Insular Affairs, Absaroka, North Absaroka according to the Wildlife known as breccia. Volcanic and Straified ares is available overflows were built up to Management Institute. Platte County from: Supervisor, Shoshone USDA's report -notes that great elevations, then National Forest, '731 chiselled out by stream action because of a steadily in- FAIR & RODEO Sheridan Ave., Cody, creasing flow of visitors to the to steeply wall the canyons. Wyoming 82414. Fantastic forms have been Oregon coastal area, AUG. 20, 21, 22, 23 development of the. left in t'"~ weathered stone. Full R.CA Approved Cloud Peak recreational resource is The average elevation of Rodeo timely. The report pointed out the Washakie (South Ab- The only wilderness' not Aug. 22 and 23' saroka and Stratified) rises to located in the western or that the area's unique feature 10,000 feet. Timber cover is northwestern portions of is the dunes themselves STEER ROPING • HO.RSI confined to small basins, Wyoming is the relatively which stretch for some 40 RACES miles along the central hillsides and stream bottoms. unexplored Coud Peak FREE BAR·B-QUE The higher sites are alpine' Primitive Area in the Bighorn Oregon Coast and are fringed tundra. This area is rich in National Forest in the with forests and fresh water Sunday, Aug. 23 II :00-1:00 petrified remains of forests, historic Big Horn Mountains. lakes. PARADE - SAT. 22.10:30 Past proposals for ferns and animal life of other The Big Horns are another 4-H and Open Clas~Exhibil1 geologic ages. Sections of granilic range, running north protecting the Oregon Dunes failed for lack of support. 4-H Livestock Sale • petrified trees may be found and south for 120 miles in Fri. Aug. 21 on the gravel bars of almost north central Wyoming. The Unlike ~arlier plans, the new rugged cirques have long one, which has the Ad- -erocutt In "Wuhintton $t8r" all of the streams and stan- High Country N_II Wild. One. Exist ... \, FTiday,August 14, 1970 Horses'Still Roam TIE· -' .. ' By Gary Leppart State, Travel Depart- WILD_bY_VerneH~User ment, Bismarck, North Asststant Travel Director Dakota ' I hadn't seen them in. doesn't make much of a dent ding country. But that day, years. It was only a small in that type of terrain. something had changed. bunch,eight adults and a Several 'weekends were Now there were nine adults WDILD- newborn colt. It was mid- spent in the badlands while I and two colts. The extra horse Last week I floated the almost anywhere; Split Rock, March of this year and I was searched for the horses. was an old gray stallion Salmon River nearly. a with a big hidden hole on the photographing wildlife in the Finally, on May 5, they made which was standing a quarter Buck Hill region 'of Theodore it easy for me. Ten - hor- of a mile off viewing the main hundred miles through one of right that swamped the Roosevelt National Memorial ses ....eight adults and two' bunch. While I watched, the the' wildest areas in the second boat; Big Mallard" Park near Medora. colts were seen from In- herd stallion trotted out and United States outside of that flipped the first boat in I had spotted a large dark terstate 94 near the southeast chased the interloper Alaska. The River of No the big hole on the left near animal moving along Paa- . corner of the Park. They were south ... .jIway from the mares Return, the main' Salmon, the end of therapid (we knew flows westward through the how we wanted to run it, but dock Creek which at first the same horses I had spotted and colts. He returned to the .appeared to be a buffalo.' before with the exception of herd as quickly as he had left. Nez_Perce, Salmon, and the current was too strong - Payette national forest along we bad to swim for it, but the However, after examining it the new colt. A gray stallion It took several hours to get the edge of the Idaho upset cost us nothing more with binoculars, lquickly saw led the mixed bunch of black, within camera range. The Pr'imitive Area' and the than half-an-hours's time and that it was a horse .and fur- white and bay-colored horses. wind was blowing from the . Salmon River Breaks a pair of sunglasses); ther up the creek were I slowed the car down to south making it necessary Primitve Area. Elkhorn and Growler, both seven ..... six adults and a colt. get a better look and they for me to slay behind a low This is the river that turned with big rocks in mid-stream Not just horses however, but s: immediately started for the range of hills to the west of wild horses! rough country to the north. I the horses and climb the Lewis and Clark back to the that we missed by inches. mountains and forced them And a camp just below the The 'wind was blowing speeded up and went on down large bluff above where they . to buy horses for the long Campbell's ..Ferry Pack from me to them but of course the road. Later that same day were.grazing, After doing the arduous trip over-land to Bridge: clean sand unmarked these were horses and they after laking a very circuitous low crawl for several hundred another tributary of the' by man, plenty of firewood weren't supposed to be overly route I was able to get quite' feet I got within a hundred Snake. This is the river that and a fringe of beech cautious ...... or so I thought. I close to the horses' and· yards and suddenly ran out of trees drowned seven people this where sandbar melted into soon found out differently! photograph them. Some of sagebrush. .summer on a - variety of rocks climbing the hill. We First one, then the others had those photos accompany this It looked like a standoff. floating, and fishing trips. were tired after an their heads high in the air, article .. as darkness spread The group basked in the This is the river that drops a exhilera ting day of river testing the wind. It didn't take across 'the badlands, the warm sun and the colts 'thousand 'feet between Cache .running, but after. a bath in them long to get the message horses moved into the rugged -stretched . out in, the Bar, where we put in, and the fiver and a cup of soup, and disappear in the rough country surrounding Cedar sagebrush below me and went Chitlam, the end of the road we relaxed in the still-warm country to the east. .' Canyon. '. to sleep. After' what seemed up from Riggins, Idaho, less sand. We lingered over Since then, I have tried The next morning at dawn like hours, but what was than 80 miles of free-flowing dinner, wondering if it would unsuccessfully to locate the I was again on the trail of the probably' only twenty or rapid river, rain and rigged camp for the wild band on three different wild bunch. During the night, thirty mirnutes, the mares According:toBuckskinBilly, worst, a false alarm. A warm occasions. Sign was always, they had moved several miles grazed out of sight around the the river was flowing high for night full of stars, and sound plentiful but I also discovered north, deeper." into the bluff to the west. The stallion 'this time of year and had been of the river and the smell of that the horses ranged over a badlands. I found them on the was still with the colts, 'but the highest he's seen it since 'wood smoke, and talk of six to ten square mile area of' southwest slope' of a large suddenly he trotted out to run 1948 , .I 12-High Country News "- Friday.August 14, 197Q I Fishing • • • Hotspots In Wyoming Northeast ~ Northwest , CLASSIFIED AD RATE~:25c per word for a single insertion; 20c per word for more than one insertion with a 10 word minimu~ for any insertion. The week of the fly fisherman has finally arrived. Browns, rainbows and cutthroats are hitting the fly in REAL ESTATE HAYE RANCH:" WILL Trailers, Dept. 663 Parsons almost all areas of the state. The northeast quarter along' Kansas 67357 the North and South Tongue Rivers seem tobe the best. SHARE ~ Boulder, Wyo •. FOR SALE • His ac~es ad. Fishermen on both sides of the Big Horns are picking up fish joining Shoshoni Nat'l Fo~·· 7632 Acres. . Conce~ned onwetflies or worms. The mountain lakes in this region are est nea~ p~oposed Washo. ,about your rec~eational fu· reported as excellent for fly fishing during the evening kie Wildemess A~ea. One hours, The northwest quarter and areas around the Jackson half mile f~om Disney hold. ~ture? We will send you our Hole Country are listed as fair to good. Again fly-fishing ings in Dunoi~ Valley di~ect. seems to be the predominate factor in bringing a good catch Iy norlh of Rams Ho~n ~Ian-FREE-TBC 80X 400, Guest Ranch. 9 miles west, 9 Homewood. Illinois 60430. home, miles no~th of Dubois. $900 Hardware is being used in the Beartooth lakes for 10" - pe~ acre. Write or call CAMPERS, TRAILERS Trailer, Pickup Camper or 12" mackinaws. The Buffalo Bill Reservoir is low but Moryellen Olson 3501 Ca~. I-'==::":;:;;';;~~=;;';';;~;';"""':'-icover. Do It yourself and reported as good fishing from a boat. They have been mel D~ive, Casper, Wyo. You ain't seen nothing savel Complete plans $3.95 pulling out 15''cutthroats and rainbows on bait or hardware. 82601.307·235·1747. 'till you see -our new cat- each. Cover plans $2.00. Big Horn Lake has been producing 6-7 lb. walleyes on alog' on camper I!t trailer Converalon plans _ econo- worms. Fishing from the bank or a boat seemed to make acceasorfes; Send 25 cents. line type van $2.95; paasen- very little difference. HOMESTEAD LANDS now Mid America Camper I!t ger bus or delivery van $2.95 available. 160-640 acres, Trailer Supply, Dept. 110 satisfaction guaranteed. Eq- Northcentral, Write: Land Inform'ation, P. Oswego, Kansas 67356. , ulpment Catalog $1.00 (re- O. Box' 148, Postal Station A, fundable). Details IOC. Vik- Boysen Reservoir is stiU listed as excellent fishing for 2-5 Vancouver, British ·Colum- Build Your Camper, Precut Ing Camper Supply. 99-D lb. walleyes. It is the fifth week in a row. The Wind River bla. Enclose $1.00 for bulle- Kits. Blueprints. Supplies. Glenwood, Minneapolis, below Boysen Dam and the Big Horn River around Ther- tin lit map Index. Literature 25C. Comstock Minnesota 55403. mopolis is listed as good for 15"~rainbow, They have been hitting hardware all summer long. , The lakes and reservoirs around Casper in the Central Wyoming sector are quite warm and should be fished deep for bigger and better results. Pathfinder has been producing the most in this area. Southwest Flaming Gorge, Lucerne area, has been fast if fished deep (50-80'), but the Buckboard area has been delighting fishermen with bigger ones, Southeast • The fly-fishermen, in the Southeast Quarter are having great luck on the Lower Snowy Range Lakes and the Big Laramie River. However, Meeboer Lake has given up some four pound rainbows on flies. Some fishermen hav~ b~en trolling with flat fish or flies on Lake Hattie and enjoymg good catches. - Salmon Are Success In ,Large Reservoir Coho salmon planted in Missouri Rivers and the third Where to Go Fort Peck Reservoir' on, release of 50,000 larger fish Two areas near Pinedale, Wyoming, are worth noting on the ' Missouri River about a was made directly into Fort the camper-fisherrnan-hunter's itinerary. They are public year ago are showing up Peck's Big Dry arm. Most of areas provided by the Wyoming. Game am Fish Depart- strong and fa t in fishermen the fish being caught now are ment for hunting and fishing, creels. Salmon released at 5 from the Big Dry plant, B RIOGER to 6 inches last June are now though some of the ones running 16 to 18 inches long planted far upstream are also 50DA LAKE and weigh out from 1 1/ 2 to 1 being caught. UNIT 3/ 4 pounds, according to Art Under natural conditions, NATIONAL Whitney, fisheries division' coho live their adult lives in chief for the Montana Fish the Pacific, During the fall of and Game Department. their third year theyreturn to FOREST '. Most of the action has been fresh water streams where Soda Lake provides fishing for brown and near the face of Fort Peck they spawn in clean gravel brook trout, and access to Willow Lake on the Dam; but fishermen are and then die. When the young Bridger National Forest. In season, there is discovering that the silvery hatch. the following spring, hunting for deer, elk, moose, and sage grouse. fish are hitting in other parts instinct leads them down- Overnight camping.is permitted on one parking of the lake also. The Pines stream to the ocean where the area on the south side of Soda Lake. area is now becoming another life cycle is repeated. salmon hal spot. Red and Even though hatchery- white lures seem to be the reared coho retain the inborn most successful ~.hardware, t BRIDGER urge to travel, their wan- N Coho were released at derlust wanes as they grow NATIONAL three separate sites last year older~ Apparently the most in order to determine which successful method of lake 1 FOREST planting method would. be planting, in Fort Peck at most successful. Two least, is to put them directly releases were made far into the lake after they've upstream in the Maarias imd outgrown their yen to find the sea~ Wind River Plt,lEDAlE . , Sporti~gGoods PorkinQ Area JIFFY N "Where All Sportsmen Meet" f\di leoge RlllMATES RIOT IR01Lf., BU~R~.IIJEED :TD~HUlUI • FAST TIE AND RELEASE with this new" ~\ ~~~~j device of many uses: Tent ropes. boeJ mogr: ~, BOll603 S\ '{J inS and anchor !ioes, clothes linel, car-top 1~'i1~ carrier ropes; ti1Idr. or tra1ier cover ropes, Pinedal., Wyo..j The Half Moon Unit ~me hunting areas III the etc:. Heavy Steel. can be pennaoen.Oy mollllt- 82941 ' jTovides public fishing for Brider National Fares t. ed with JCteW$ or bolts ... for,1.00. Plus 25c for baDdllDg.llDd ahlppiq chp. Shipped' Ph. 13071 367·2419. There is hunting in season for rainbow trout on ahoot 1 11 2 U.S.A. ~. prepaid, DO C.O,D.'s. Myrtle and Chuck ~aper miles of Pole Creek. It also deer and antelope on the unit" CAl'RECO., 448 ,'!II. No,-th 51., jTovides acceS!! to Little Half ~, One overnight camping area Kalamazoo,. ~cb .., H.nH.. &_ FIIII/n' U•• _ MoQn Lake and choice -big i Wyoming game 'bird. November15; Hayden-Snowy day but only 15 are to be in hunters can expect few Range area from September possession. changes in season lengths, 26 until October 12; and Falcons may be used for bag limits and areas open to Laramie Peak area will be' hUl\ti"g game birds in hunting during .the 19'70 opel) from September 26 until.' Wyomingagain this year and seasons. October 25. - there are no sex restrictions Pheasant hunting seasons Sheridan, Johnson and as hi tbe past'; Hunters are will run about the same .CampbellCounties wilLDffer . remindednofirearms may be length as last-yearand will all sharptail grouse hunting carried by hunters using open November 7. Hunting again this season beginning falcons. . ~" will remain openin the North November 7 and closing Detailed upland game bird Big Horn Basin- and November 22. Hunters may hunting orders 'are at the. Yellowtail Wildlife Habitat take three sharptail grouse a printers nowand should be in Unit as late as December 31 day and have up to' six in the hands of deputy game and pheasant hunting will possession. wardens, license. selling close as early as November 15 Big Horn County has a agents and in the district in Fremont, Converse and monopolyagain this year as officesof the Wyoming Game Platte Counties. In Fremont the entire county will be the and Fish Commission by County hunters will he only area in Wyoming .in August21, 1970. Resident and allowed one henin the bag for - which bobwhitequail may be nonresident bird licenses are the first two days of the taken. The season will open now _on sale throughout season. After the second day November 7 and runs until Wyoming from the above only male birds may be. December 31. Five bobwhite listed sources. taken. In the northern portion quail may be harvested each of the state pheasant bag limits are three a. day with nine in possessionas opposed to three a day and only six in. possession for other areas. It's time for a change. Careless Campers Spring storms have caused Two more BIG reoson. why game managers to advise generally shorter sage grouse 1. GUN CONTROL hunting seasons this fall. Bag McOII, 197O-1TYU limits will be nearly the MIKI'S OPPONINT Called to Task McGEE, 1m· STYLE, "I'vealw1lys beeiI same. The Eden Valley ON GUN CONftOL 011_ lide IIllbe feoce 011 gun CGIIIriiI aDd W.wtl~OH ,UP" - ~ 1llB11B1 ~ 811)' IUfl coottul ~tioa Careless camping practices from the campgrounds. Irrigation District Early fit .. 1IOcCo<. D- " oo,d ll\lIl ventured lGward reglsll'atiOD of JIIDI." n.''''.'.r Jaw." ,....,.. KAT! Neoiolpnlll'8ln, "l"tee F .. All," JIIb by many visitors in the Bears attracted to the Area will open August 15 and "..... ,...... '.'_.""~. .. IO,'1m ...... _01',,,."'''',,,,.'__ 10.'''''''','',." campgrounds of Yellowstone camprounds by food soon close August 24.Allotherareas '"'~ .. , ;n • pD,","" I,,,,, ...... ,...... "" .,..,,,, . National Park continue to grow acustomed.to man and " ,""""" .. ,,;,., ...,,,,.,.... open to sage grouse hunting "' -....'", ..... create a problem, Superin- become dangerous .. It then will open August zs-some ...."",,""'"IIo. , , ._-'- r" ...-. d .~ ~H -H ~"===="" ~..Environment~1 ~ t Wild Horses Roam • • • ~' Eavesdropper u 1 f (Continued from page 11) LOONEY LIMERICKS south. This was my chance' I because of" their habit of the. trap gate oil several oc- felt sure I could get close to running off range mares. casions by' riders on hor- • by Zane E. Cology the colts before they awoke Most of 'these horses seback. Each time, the horses [ and get some pictures. I tip- originally escaped from early escaped when the stallion A year ago, Family O'Shay toed down the sloping bluff settlers or Indians. The rest veered to one side or the Took a picnic and headed that way-- and was crouched over were their 'offspring. Bands of other, cutting back through' Saying, "Let's find a spot heading for the colts when the wild horses have roamed the the riders. Attempts to im- Where litter is not" " stallion, a quarter of a mile , badlands since those early mobilize the horses wi th They haven't' returned, to this day' away, spotted me. It really cowboy and Indian days. At tranquilizer guns also failed. got to be a foot race to' see one time, they were found in Of course, at this time, Park who was going to get to the the North Unit and areas Service officials felt that .the * * * colts first. I also started to outside the park system, as horses were strayed domestic " The Public Land Law Review Commission Report says, have misgivings ..... won- well as the South Unit. During or federal' stock and all of Public land mineral pohcy should encourage exploration, dering what he would do once the 1940's, before Theodore them should be removed from development, and production of minerals on the public we got there. I shouldn't have Roosevelt National Mmorial the Park. - Park was developed and Recently, Park policies lands ...Mineral exploration and development should have a worried. It wasn't much of a preference over' some of all other uses' on much of our race, and he beat me by a fenced as we know it today, have again changed. There public, lands ... (and) the industry 'generally . prefers good 100feet. I got one picture horses and cattle often are presently twenty six wild amending rather than replacing the 1872 Mining Law," The as a colt jumped from his bed escaped into Park lands from horses in the South Unit. Two the. surrounding grazing herds roam' the area and in report generally bears the imprint of mining industry and watched his father race thinking. towards him. It was then I districts. It also wasn't too each herd, two colts were · born this spring. The horses ran out of Iilm-e--naturally! uncommon in some cases to . t * * While I fumbled with a new have stock pushed a little in range over the creek bottoms I that direction. and rugged county. between roll of film, the stallion and A Nevada state senator has complained of that state's his offspring raced back and As time went on; and Park the scenic loop road in the Service policies were proximity of Buck Hill to the archaic mining laws. The senator said an Oklahoma firm 1 forth before me. He, snorting :vould locate mining claims for eustomers (or a.$1 filing fee. and blowing, the' colts tightened up, most of the east boundary of the Park. livestock was removed from Wild horses are a part of I'he firm has already claimed xume 400000 acres in White following. I finally got the Pine County and about :'.;:)o.()()O ;l(T('.'" i 11 P~rshirig County. film in the camera and was the Park. The cattle went ·the Qld West 'image, and as able to get some color photos first. Later, efforts were such, are tourist attractions. of the three horses charging made to remove the, horses. Federal policy now permits back and forth. All of this Several large roundups were wild horses to roam on held 'and in 1954" ap- federal lands in some sections The Bureau of Land Managemenl in Idaho has announced activity excited the rest of the that "location work" Oil newly set mining claims is no herd and eventually, the proximately 100 horses were of the West. The Roosevelt removed from the Park.,Most Park horses and a small band longer-required in that state. The last Idaho Legislature 'stallion got his little bunch abohshed the requirement that the locater of a claim' must together and headed south at of the horses in this bunch of horses in the - Pryor wore brands and were not Mountains on the Montana- dig a four-by-four fool shaft 10 feet deep or excavate 160 a hard lope. cubic feet of gl'Ound in some other manner. 'l very wild. It was a fairly Wyoming -Wyoming border , This ended one heck of a simple matter to bring them are the only wild horses , , , wild horse chase and resulted in. known to exist in this region. in the pictures which ac-' Later efforts to round up The Pryor Mountain The National Pa,:k Service has acquired the famed company this article. If I the few remaining horses horses and attempts to Moorish Castle in Death Valley. The castle was built as a learned anything from the were not so simple. In remove them have received whim b~'a Chicago millionaire, Albert M., Johnson, and-his experience, it was that these December of' '1965, tbe national publicity the last two ramous mining-prospector partner. Walter El, Scott. known horses were truly wild. They Tescher brothers (Medora years. It was recently as Death Valley Scotty. The castle is repuled to have cost $2 are probably the shyest area ranchers and famous decided that the horses will million when built between 1926and 19:Jl. The Park Service animals in the Park when in bronc riders) removed six ·stay and some Bureau of acquired Ihe castle and I.H20acres of land for $B511.01l1l. the proximity of man. They horses by chasing and roping · Land Management land will run from anything unusual them. After the removal of be set aside for them. and are just as watchful, if these six, twenty three horses What lies ahead for the * * not more so, than deer. were believed roaming the North Dakota horses? Park' Scientists are now researching what natives of the Far One of the first questions officials now look upon them rugged badlands of the Park. East have known for some time, papaya seeds are a you might ask is where did On June third of the same as part of the natural faunal these horses come from in the natural contraceptive. The research may lead to a fully safe year, the Teschers and four madeup of the Park. Future "pill" .' first place? Well, there have Park Service employees were planning calls for a herd of been wild horses in the able to rope four more horses, a pprox inunr-lv forly wild badlands for many years. These horses joined the horst-s in 111('South Unit. They Tbeodore Roosevelt in his Tescher string. wi II lit' allowed to roam the 1 book.Ranching Life and the bn dl.uu!s wilderness with Danish scientists using .a 4.700 foot ice core from the On July 19, 1965, a horse t;reenland ice sheet are predicting a "little ice age" star- Hunting Trail, mentions wild trap was constructed between bulla I", dve r and other ling Ihe I!'BlJ's..The ice core has given an unbroken record of horses near 'his ranch on the two buttes in the Jones & wildlilr-. lbehevc thi is what Little Missouri in the 1880's. mosllWopll' in this state want climatic changes for the past 100,000 years. The record Paddock Creek countrx The shows a fairly regular series of warm-cold periods. 1i At that time, wild stallions wild horses were ,h',;,'n 10 to hear .... it i~l'<.'rlainly to my were shot whenever they within a quarter. of a m de of liking: , , , came within rifle range A report. by the National League of Cities and the U. S. r Conference of Mayors says the combined needs for wa ter pollution controls in the U, S. will total $33-37mlllioll for the next six years. The figure is far above what the Nixon ad- ministration is recommending. . Montana Commission To Set Regulations Montana's Fish and Game ,their agenda will be setting Commissioners will have a bag limits and regulations for busy ,schedule when they the 1970 grouse and partridge meet in Helena Wednesday seasons and opening dates for and Thursday, August 19-20, the pheasant season. Details according to Fish and Game for special elk drawings will Director Frank Dunkle. be established. Among the many items on FISHING IIU,DGE For all your T... ' .... VILLAGE Hunting and 358 sites, all h_ku~ Laun- dry, showers. Groceries, ice. Fishing. nee~ gas, propane, boats, fishing naarby. stop in at YELLOWSTONE HATIONAL ,.A.I(, Wyo. Shoshoni Hardware The wild stallion got his mare. and colts headed out, then looked and back far anymore danger. Teddy Roosevelt saw sudt wild horses when he ,Jun_id September ,Electronic. Ii ranched along the Uttle Missouri River in th,e 1880's. These were ,photo- Write or cill: I.. (307)242·7314 Shoshoni, Wyoming _II' graphed in TheodoreRoosevelt N~tional MemoriidPark in North Dakota. I Fire Danger, Hearings Are Held Is Extreme < Unusuallyhigfi daytime On Reorganization temperatures with brisk The House Committee on management and regulatory winds have rapidly increased Government Operations held functions of marine resources the fire danger in national hearings July 22 to gather from the)nterior Department forest areas of the Rocky reactions to the proposed to the Commerce Department Mountain a rea, Vegetation is governmental reorganization w h i c h t r a d i ti 0 nail y dry. With the many campers, which would create an in- represents the inductrial and hikers, fishermen, hunters dependent Environmental economic viewpoint. Serious and recreationists who will be Protection Agency and a concern is being expressed going to the mountains during National Oceanic and over the possible fate of the approching hunting A tom 0 s p her i cAd - coastal zone marine season, extra care is needed ministration within the resources 'under Commerce to prevent any "man-made" Department of Commerce, administration. Questions are fires. according to the Wildlife being raized on how soon and Forest Service personnel Management Institute. how well Commerce may be urge the cooperation of all ' National conservation able to generate a sound fores t users in using the organizations endorse EPA resource-conservation ethic, following rules: but voice strong opposition to not now in evidence, .and how When building a fire Beaches Need It is just like throwing money out tile window. If file individuallsl responsible for th.is fire in Maxin Basin. Protection are ever apprehended. it will cost them 'a cool $80.000 . Vanishing public beaches to repay the Forest SlIfvice for putting it out. That is a in the United States have lot of dough for leaving a can of pork and beans on an spurred legislation to protect the public's right of access to open camp fire. what once was regarded as a common, the Wildlife Ma na g em ent 'Institute reports. A bill, (H.R. 11016), in- troduced by Congressman Where the Action Is Bob Eckhart (Texas) along with eight co-sponsor, I Fighting forest fires is 0 hot, tough job. The irrespon· del cia res that the beaches of IAUGUST EVEN~ Place' the United States are "im- sible person who leaves a burning campfire or throws a pressed with a natural in- Aug. 16-23--NationalO-Mok-See