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  • A Q&A with former Colorado National Monument head Joan Anzelmo

    A Q&A with former Colorado National Monument head Joan Anzelmo

    The retired Park Service superintendent stands by her controversial decision not to allow a major bike race in the monument, and continues to be passionate about preserving landscapes.

  • The year 2011, in apocalyptic weather events

    The year 2011, in apocalyptic weather events

    Fire and flood, snowstorms and droughts, downburst winds and desert haboobs -- 2011 brought incredibly wacky weather to the West.

  • Congressional group plans for oil's decline

    Rep. Tom Udall, D-N.M., and Rep. Roscoe Bartlett, R-Md., have formed the Congressional Peak Oil Caucus to discuss preparing for life after "peak oil" – when worldwide oil supplies can no longer meet demand

  • The Latest Bounce

    EPA abandons attempt to regulate hydraulic fracturing; BLM briefly cuts forestry school funding and Republican Rep. Greg Walden grills logging critic Dan Donato; California regulator tries to stop ecological crash in San Francisco Bay-Delta

  • On Obama's coattails

    Western Democrats have reason to celebrate the 2008 election, but the old conservative West has not disappeared.

  • Colorado voters hold the cards on renewable energy

    In November, Coloradans will have the chance to vote on a citizen-proposed renewable-energy initiative, but the utilities are working hard to defeat it

  • The Coyote Caucus Takes the West to Washington

    Stewart and Mo Udall were Western conservation giants. Now the West looks to their sons to bridge today’s social and political divides and create a conservation legacy of their own

  • The conservation hall of fame is too small

    The brothers Stewart and Mo Udall are two of the West’s conservation heroes, and their sons, Rep. Tom Udall of New Mexico and Rep. Mark Udall of Colorado, have very large shoes to fill in their own work for the Western landscape

  • The Udall bloodline is consistent

    Mo Udall’s six children, and Stewart Udall’s six – not to mention many of their cousins – have tended to find work in some form of public service

  • Udall patriarch laments startling changes

    Stewart Udall talks about his years as Interior secretary, and criticizes the Bush administration’s environmental policy

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  1. In the field with a Montana couple hunting wolves | Amid bitter controversy over allowing hunters and ...
  2. Seeking balance in Oregon's timber country | Can logging towns and old-growth forests both thri...
  3. How right-wing emigrants conquered North Idaho | Conservative transplants largely from California h...
  4. (Still) getting the lead out | When will hunters stop poisoning condors with ammu...
  5. Rants from the hill: Trapping the bees | What to do when 50,000 honeybees hive up inside th...
  1. Don't mess with the Forest Service | How a determined and feisty Forest Service held of...
  2. Sacrificial Land: Will renewable energy devour the Mojave Desert? | An unlikely group of activists is championing a ne...
  3. How right-wing emigrants conquered North Idaho | Conservative transplants largely from California h...
  4. The Forest Service battles placer mining with an obscure law | A little-known 1955 law gives the Forest Service a...
  5. Trappers catch a lot more than wolves | Mountain lions, eagles, bobcats, geese and domesti...
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