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  • Citizens unite against gas field chaos

    In western Colorado, the Grand Valley Citizens Alliance is trying to work with industry to set protections for landowners before more drilling gets under way

    by Sarah Gilman, Apr 17, 2006

  • Conservation for the adrenaline crowd

    Can the Red Bull generation of outdoor recreationists get serious about saving the planet?

    by Terray Sylvester, Oct 26, 2009

  • Conservation groups come and go. Why?

    Pat Munday decries the “professionalization” of environmental groups.

    by Pat Munday, Jun 09, 2008

  • Cutting trees to save the forest

    Chris Kelly’s environmental group, The Conservation Fund, is carefully logging its own redwood trees in order to save forests and salmon in Northern California.

    by Matt Jenkins, Sep 17, 2007

  • Dear friends

    Matt Jenkins leaves the HCN office to become California-Great Basin correspondent; Western Slope Environmental Resource Conference and North Fork River Improvement Association hold annual meetings; visitors; "secretary" Bruce Babbitt

    by Greg Hanscom, Betsy Marston, Michelle Nijhuis and Jodi Peterson, Apr 17, 2006

  • Dear friends

    HCN board meeting in Missoula, Mont.; visitors; correction

    by Staff, Oct 30, 2006

  • Easterners tilt at windmills while Westerners joust with a real foe

    Cape Cod’s opposition to a proposed offshore wind farm sounds crazy to Westerners, who would gladly exchange nuclear waste dumps, coal mines and gas wells for some renewable energy

    by Joshua Zaffos, Mar 07, 2005
  • Environmentalists must learn to compromise

    Environmentalists must learn to compromise

    Environmentalists opposed to desalination plants are indulging in wishful thinking, because conservation is not enough to provide the arid West with water during a drought.

    by Jonathan Parkinson, Mar 31, 2009

  • Getting high in class

    Bruce Gordon started his nonprofit EcoFlight in Aspen, Colo., to take kids out of the classroom and let them see environmental issues from above, in his Cessna 210

    by Josh Garrett-Davis, Dec 08, 2003

  • Good Samaritan bill could clean up old mines

    A bill introduced by Colorado Rep. John Salazar could make it easier for environmental groups and others to clean up pollution at thousands of orphaned hardrock mines

    by Sarah Gilman, May 29, 2006
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