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  • Protecting wildlife corridors remains more theory than practice

    Protecting wildlife corridors remains more theory than practice

    There's a growing understanding of the scientific importance of wildlife migration corridors, but protecting them is a huge political challenge.

    by Mary Ellen Hannibal, Dec 29, 2011

  • The hazards of the leasing game

    Protecting environmentally sensitive Western lands from the current oil and gas frenzy is a challenge to the conservationists who file protests with the BLM.

    by Paul Larmer, Apr 14, 2008

  • The leasing protest game

    Conservationists can file formal protests when the BLM wants to auction off public land to energy companies, but the differences between regional management plans and styles make the protest game little more than a crapshoot.

    by April Reese, Apr 14, 2008
  • The BLM struggles to get ahead of oil and gas development in the West

    The BLM struggles to get ahead of oil and gas development in the West

    Master leasing plans, or MLPs, are a new tool designed to help the Bureau of Land Management better coordinate energy leasing and development in areas that may need special treatment or protection.

    by Kimberly Hirai, Mar 13, 2012
  • Crude combat

    Crude combat

    Can U.S. environmentalists derail a huge Canadian tar sands project that affects this side of the border?

    by Cally Carswell, Aug 11, 2010
  • Monstertruck alley

    Monstertruck alley

    Imperial Oil's plan to transport gigantic equipment to Alberta, Canada, will require major work on highways in Idaho and Montana.

    by Denver Nicks, Aug 10, 2010
  • Why bother cooking what nature failed to finish?

    Why bother cooking what nature failed to finish?

    A tar sands development proposed for Utah is insane on every level: economically, environmentally and just practically.

    by Mike Duncan, Mar 20, 2011

  • How to deal with oil and gas development

    The Oil and Gas Accountability Project has created Oil and Gas at Your Door, a guidebook and Web site for Western landowners confronted by energy development

    by Dan Wilcock, Oct 25, 2004

  • Ready... fire... aim!

    Ten years into the energy rush, the West is beginning to think about its impacts on the region’s land, air, water and wildlife

    by Greg Hanscom, Mar 07, 2005

  • The need to remember Black Sunday

    As western Colorado begins to dance to the tune of a brand-new energy boom, it’s good to remember that the last one ended in a total bust

    by Jim Spehar, May 14, 2007
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