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  • The woodpile and me

    The woodpile and me

    Is it ever possible to have too much wood in your woodpile?

    by Gail Binkly, Feb 03, 2011
  • Coming to blows

    Coming to blows

    Tribal infighting is delaying a wind farm planned for Gray Mountain on the Navajo Reservation.

    by Gail Binkly, Apr 22, 2009

  • Hypocrisy on the road

    Gail Binkly notes that environmentalists don’t always drive what they preach

    by Gail Binkly, Jan 15, 2007

  • Dust in the wind

    In his new book, The Worst Hard Time, Tim Egan interviews survivors to tell the story of the great American Dust Bowl on the southern Great Plains in the 1930s

    by Gail Binkly, Jul 24, 2006

  • Casinos coming to Navajo Nation

    After long resistance to gambling, the Navajo Nation has decided to allow casinos on the reservation

    by Gail Binkly, Apr 03, 2006

  • Who’s afraid of the big bad dog?

    The writer asks which animals are more dangerous: wolves or dogs?

    by Gail Binkly, Feb 27, 2006

  • Doubling density near Durango

    The La Plata County commissioners have signed two deals allowing energy companies to double the density of coalbed methane wells near Durango, Colo.

    by Gail Binkly, Nov 14, 2005

  • The restoration will not be televised

    After the Fires: The Ecology of Change in Yellowstone National Park is an anthology of articles chronicling the long-term effects of the 1988 fires on the park’s ecosystem and wildlife

    by Gail Binkly, Sep 05, 2005

  • Bringing back the wolf = bringing back the habitat

    In Decade of the Wolf: Returning the Wolf to Yellowstone, biologist Douglas Smith and nature writer Gary Ferguson seek to separate myth from reality in the long and turbulent saga of the wolf

    by Gail Binkly, May 30, 2005

  • Forcing nomads to farm — the Utes' sad story

    In "The Utes Must Go!" Peter R. Decker looks at the tragedies that resulted when fear-mongering politicians and settlers decided to oust the Ute Indians from Colorado and Utah in the 19th century.

    by Gail Binkly, Feb 07, 2005

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