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The Mog Squad
In the quest for the ultimate firefighting machine, the BLM in Nevada has turned to some very big, very strange, and very foreign vehicles.
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The old man and the stream
A brief encounter with an elderly fisherman moves W.S. Robinson to think about the mysteries of life and death -- and fathers and sons.
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All along the watchtower
Andrew McNair, who works weekends at a computer in Olympia, Wash., is not your typical Western firefighter.
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Not even the privileged can deter a porcupine
Judy Muller contemplates the humble porcupine, which is wreaking havoc among pricey houses in Telluride Mountain Village.
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Size matters if you go for “green” bragging rights
Monique Cole wonders if a 6,500-square-foot “green-powered” McMansion is a contradiction in terms.
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Riparian repair
River restorationists tackle the Clark Fork River near Milltown, Mont., in a project that demonstrates how hard it is to revive a damaged waterway.
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An unlikely Shangri-la
Steve and Marc Jenson have ambitious plans to turn a failed ski resort near Beaver, Utah, into a private enclave for the ultra-rich, but not everyone is thrilled about the idea.
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Crash of the cottonwoods
Across the West, cottonwoods are dying, and no one is sure how to save these iconic trees.
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Going to the gasroots
In western Colorado, oil and gas companies mobilize in a publicity blitz to pack a Grand Junction hearing about proposed changes to the state’s natural gas drilling rules.
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Category: Energy
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Going backwards: building an oil refinery in South Dakota
by Peter Carrels Aug 18, 2008 12:00 PM"Dirtiest oil on earth" to be processed in "green" facility, using 10 million gallons of water from Missouri River aquifer.
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Roan on the auction block
by Emily Steinmetz, Andrea Appleton, Marty Durlin Aug 08, 2008 05:00 AMThe BLM auctioned leases on 54,631 acres in Western Colorado to the natural gas industry for a record $114 million.
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Drilling with Charlie
by Randy Udall Aug 04, 2008 12:00 AMRandy Udall’s friend Charlie has spent his life drilling for oil and natural gas.
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Going to the gasroots
by Sarah Gilman Aug 04, 2008 12:00 AMIn western Colorado, oil and gas companies mobilize in a publicity blitz to pack a Grand Junction hearing about proposed changes to the state’s natural gas drilling rules.
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Gas industry secrets and a nurse's story
by Eric Frankowski Jul 28, 2008 09:00 AMEric Frankowski describes the medical ordeal of a Durango emergency room nurse who was accidentally exposed to the chemicals used in hydraulic fracturing.
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Power of the picture
by Jonathan Thompson Jul 21, 2008 08:00 AMHigh Country News photographer Morgan Heim joins the International League of Conservation Photographers to document the gasfields and the wildlands around Pinedale, Wyo.
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Fatalities in the energy fields: 2000-2006
by Ray Ring Jul 16, 2008 03:30 PMAt least 89 people died in the energy fields of Colorado, Montana, New Mexico, North Dakota, Utah and Wyoming during the last six years
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Disposable Workers of the Oil and Gas Fields
by Ray Ring Jul 16, 2008 03:30 PMWithout a college degree, work on the oil and gas fields is the best job you can get in the rural West – unless, of course, it kills you
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A little regulation can be a very good thing
by Jim Spehar Jun 16, 2008 12:00 PMJim Spehar says proposed new regulations won’t harm western Colorado’s oil and gas industry and may do a lot to help the rest of the region’s economy survive the current boom.
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Walking on a Wire
by Judith Lewis Jul 16, 2008 03:44 PMLos Angeles needs green power, but some environmentalists are up in arms over plans to build transmission lines across the Mojave Desert.
