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  • Primrose focus of legal dustup

    Environmentalists and ORV groups accuse the BLM of dragging its feet over implementing a plan to protect an endangered flower in California’s Clear Creek Management Area

    by Patrick Farrell, Aug 08, 2005

  • His playground pulls fun hogs off the publiclands

    Jeremy Parriott is working with friends to create a 320-acre extreme-sports playground near Moab, Utah, to give four-wheelers and others a place to play off the public lands

    by Jodi Peterson, Aug 22, 2005

  • Revealed — secret changes to park rules

    The Park Service lands in hot water when Deputy Assistant Interior Secretary Paul Hoffman secretly rewrites the agency’s management manual, and the revision is leaked to the press

    by Brodie Farquhar, Sep 19, 2005
  • ORV riding needs on-the-ground enforcement

    ORV riding needs on-the-ground enforcement

    Reckless, illegal off-road vehicle riding is a serious problem, but better law enforcement -- rather than road closures -- is the way to solve it.

    by Shannon Raborn, Jun 22, 2011
  • A dark moment, a glimmer of light

    A dark moment, a glimmer of light

    Despite the recent tragedy in Tucson, a sense of community blooms in the West, often in unlikely soil.

    by Ray Ring, Jan 23, 2011

  • Two weeks in the West

    Cross-country skiers and snowmobilers clash over access to Logan Canyon, Utah; Mount Jefferson, Mont.; and (of course) Yellowstone; Forest Service Chief Dale Bosworth steps down to be replaced by Gail Kimbell; West becomes player in national politics; bor

    by Jonathan Thompson, Feb 05, 2007

  • Have bee, will travel

    This issue of High Country News features Hannah Nordhaus on the challenges facing a Western migratory beekeeper and his hives of pollinating bees.

    by John Mecklin, Mar 19, 2007

  • The loneliness of the redneck environmentalist

    Drew Pogge is caught between two cultures: the redneck good ol’ boy gearheads of his youth, and the holier-than-thou environmentalists of his present.

    by Drew Pogge, Mar 31, 2008

  • Where the rubber leaves the road

    Colorado's new off-road vehicle bill expands enforcement

    by Evelyn Schlatter, Mar 31, 2008
  • Confessions of an off-road outlaw

    Confessions of an off-road outlaw

    A hunter who once tore through the woods on his ORV rethinks his ways after he realizes that he’s scaring off wildlife

    by Garrett VeneKlasen, Nov 06, 2009
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