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  • Anglers can be advocates for endangered fish

    Anglers can be advocates for endangered fish

    An early encounter with the wily bull trout teaches an angler lifelong respect for this rare fish, and for the Endangered Species Act that helps keep it alive.

    by Ben Long, May 30, 2012

  • Energy workers, union members protest drilling

    In Wyoming, oil and gas workers and the Wyoming AFL-CIO have joined environmentalists, ranchers and homeowners in protesting the sale of energy leases in the Wyoming Range of Bridger-Teton National Forest

    by Allison Gerfin, Jun 26, 2006

  • Fishermen blamed for salmon troubles

    James Connaughton of the Bush administration’s Council on Environmental Quality says that fishing must be curtailed to save endangered salmon, but salmon advocates say dams are still the real threat to the fish

    by Brett Wilkison, Mar 06, 2006

  • Heard around the West

    Nevada’s toad boom; Utah piranha; roadkill CPR; Donald Rumsfeld vs. Navajo Marine; super-rich lay claim to Montana waterway

    by Betsy Marston, Aug 21, 2006

  • Heard around the West

    Firefighting fisherman; Denver’s dangerous principal; peregrine falcons and bridges; San Francisco’s parrots; jaguar gets the finger in Albuquerque

    by Betsy Marston, Jun 21, 2004

  • Loss and renewal in the Northwest

    Steven Radosevich writes simple, painful, personal essays about the changing landscape of the Pacific Northwest in his new book, Good Wood: Growth, Loss and Renewal.

    by Annie Dawid, Aug 21, 2006
  • Montana's stream access law stays strong

    Montana's stream access law stays strong

    The Montana Legislature abandons an attempt to tighten the state's permissive stream-access laws.

    by Matthew Frank, Aug 02, 2011
  • Not all government programs need cutting

    Not all government programs need cutting

    The Conservation Reserve Program has encouraged millions of acres of idled farmland to be used as wildlife habitat, but now it may be plowed under by a budget-cutting Congress.

    by Stephanie Paige Ogburn, Oct 12, 2011

  • Thinking like a fish

    The essays in Chad Hanson’s collection Swimming with Trout celebrate the wonder of water and its mysterious inhabitants.

    by Irene Wanner, Mar 31, 2008
  • Why one Coloradan cares about fish quotas

    Why one Coloradan cares about fish quotas

    Fisheries management is important to more than seafood lovers; it's a matter of life and death to Pacific Coast communities.

    by Jonathan Thompson, Aug 03, 2009

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