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  • Caught in the Headlights

    Personal obsession leads one woman into a world of scientists, wildlife rehabilitators and eccentric artists who are fascinated by the bloody relationship between wildlife and roads.

    by Eliza Murphy, Feb 07, 2005

  • Roadkill statistics

    Statistics from a variety of sources show the impact that roads have on wildlife numbers

    by Staff, Feb 07, 2005

  • Revamped road to Chaco may be the park's ruin

    Archaeologists are worried that a plan to upgrade the 16-mile gravel road to Chaco Canyon in New Mexico could lead to more tourism and possibly harm the park’s fragile ruins

    by Laura Parkus, May 30, 2005

  • A rough road to repair

    Abandoned logging routes wash $1.3 billion of trouble into Northwestern watersheds

    by Francisco Tharp, Mar 27, 2008

  • Two weeks in the West

    The West is on fire; Dick Cheney exposed; toning down RS-2477; and firefighting statistics

    by Jonathan Thompson, Jul 23, 2007
  • Road warrior

    Road warrior

    Ted Conover talks about roads in life and writing.

    by Matthew Fleischer, Sep 09, 2010

  • County and Forest Service bury the shovel

    Elko County, Nev., has made an agreement with the Forest Service to end the long-running fight over a dirt road in Jarbidge Canyon on the Humboldt-Toiyabe National Forest

    by Brett Wilkison, May 01, 2006

  • Road ripping

    In his book, No Place Distant: Roads and Motorized Recreation on America’s Public Land, David Havlick looks at the environmental impacts caused by the roads that crisscross our national forests, parks, wildlife refuges and BLM lands

    by Jacob Smith, Nov 24, 2003
  • We keep annoying Sheila, our GPS navigator

    We keep annoying Sheila, our GPS navigator

    A GPS navigator works fine in the city, but tends to get muddled in Wyoming's rough country, with its growing network of oil and gas roads.

    by Sharon O'Toole, Mar 30, 2011

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