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Writers on the Range
Scientist and writer Rachel Carson's intelligence, courage and love for life are remembered on the 50th anniversary of her groundbreaking book "Silent Spring."
by Carol Carson,
May 17, 2012
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Current
A map shows Western snowpacks as of April 1, 2012, and notes record-breaking heat and dry weather in the Southwest.
by Neil LaRubbio,
Apr 30, 2012
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Current
After he impersonated a Heartland Institute board member, gadfly scientist and Pacific Institute head Peter Gleick has been persona non grata. But California water bosses may miss his fierce intellect.
by Matt Jenkins,
Apr 25, 2012
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Writers on the Range
A second-generation forest ranger considers how fire prevention and climate change are affecting the forests he once roamed with his father.
by Frank Carroll,
Apr 18, 2012
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News
A scientist taps the recollections of tribal elders as part of her work to piece together the story of landscape change on the Navajo Nation.
by Danielle Venton,
Apr 04, 2012
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Book Reviews
Books about climate change tend to be grim reading, but William deBuys' love for the American Southwest makes his new nonfiction book A Great Aridness beautiful as well as disturbing.
by Laura Paskus,
Mar 05, 2012
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Writers on the Range
If you want to find an inexpensive, entertaining way to furnish your house, try raiding the garbage in a resort town like Crested Butte, Colo.
by Dawne Belloise,
Feb 03, 2012
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Writers on the Range
Photographers and artists -- and scientists, too -- discover that a terrible
beauty can be found in ravaged industrial regions.
by Sarah Gilman,
Jan 23, 2012
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Current
Fire and flood, snowstorms and droughts, downburst winds and desert haboobs -- 2011 brought incredibly wacky weather to the West.
by Jonathan Thompson,
Dec 26, 2011
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Letters
by Lowell Chandler,
Dec 12, 2011
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Writers on the Range
House bills to delay air pollution standards move on to the Senate.
by Nathan Rice,
Nov 18, 2011
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Letters
by Tim Conley,
Nov 14, 2011
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Current
The Environmental Protection Agency is attempting to reduce haze from air pollution near national parks and wilderness; some coal-fired power plants are cleaning up their act and others will shut down.
by Cally Carswell,
Nov 14, 2011
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Feature
In Utah, scientists are exploring the site of a long-vanished inland sea called Lake Bonneville to understand the West's past - and future - climate.
by Douglas Fox,
Nov 07, 2011
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Feature
by Staff,
Oct 31, 2011
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