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  • A former energy company lawyer now fights for the other side

    A former energy company lawyer now fights for the other side

    Attorney Lance Astrella represents landowners coping with oil and gas development on their doorsteps.

    by April Reese, Jul 29, 2011

  • Name: Lance Astrella

    by April Reese, Jul 24, 2011
  • States rev up ORV rules

    States rev up ORV rules

    While federal public-land agencies dither, some Western states are cracking down on off-road vehicle problems.

    by April Reese, Jun 02, 2009
  • Conservation or cop-out?

    Conservation or cop-out?

    A lack of participation could scuttle voluntary conservation agreements designed to protect species like New Mexico’s lesser prairie chickens and sand dune lizards.

    by April Reese , Apr 15, 2009
  • Who’ll clean up when the party’s over?

    Who’ll clean up when the party’s over?

    There are efforts to reclaim oil and gas drilling sites, but many fear it’s too little, too late.

    by April Reese , Nov 10, 2008

  • Home is where the guilt is

    In Santa Fe, N.M., April Reese wrestles with the question of whether owning a new house is worth being responsible for the bulldozing of pinon and juniper trees.

    by April Reese, Jul 18, 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

  • Environmental change

    Sen. Pete Domenici, R-N.M., does an about-face and moves to protect New Mexico’s Valle Vidal from oil and gas drilling

    by April Reese, Dec 11, 2006

  • As states ponder protection, roadless forests unravel

    Western states debate the best way to look after their roadless areas even as logging, drilling and mining move in on formerly protected lands

    by April Reese, Jul 24, 2006

  • Energy company stakes out wildlife refuge

    Yates Petroleum Co. plans to drill two gas wells in New Mexico’s Bitter Lake National Wildlife Refuge

    by April Reese, Mar 06, 2006

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