 And we did.” 

He resigned as director of the Wyoming Outdoor Council in the early 1970s to found the "High Country News" a paper that started as a small local camping magazine that he built into an award-winning national news journal on Western environmental issues.Although he resigned as director of the Wyoming Outdoor Council, he later returned as a board member, and today continues to serve as a board member emeritus.Bell was featured in the 2006 documentary "A Land Out of Time" which describes the effects of energy development on the western landscape and the people that live there.