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  • Writers on the Range It was written on the wind

    It was written on the wind

    Remembering the untimely death of a "downwinder" brother from New Mexico.

  • Multimedia High Country Views: Anticline deer decline

    High Country Views: Anticline deer decline

    Emilene Ostlind talks with former federal biologist Rollin Sparrowe about energy development on the Pinedale Anticline and its impact on wildlife.

  • Current The supposedly protected Wyoming Range faces new energy development

    The supposedly protected Wyoming Range faces new energy development

    Roughnecks and hunters are fighting plans to drill for natural gas in the Hoback-Noble Basin of the Wyoming Range.

  • Multimedia Mixing oil and water in California

    Mixing oil and water in California

    Farmers and the oil industry clash over water in Kern County, Calif.

  • Multimedia Our forest

    Our forest

    Hunters in Wyoming's Noble Basin protest proposed gas drilling

  • Current Conservation calculus

    Conservation calculus

    Energy companies in Wyoming's Jonah Field are funding habitat preservation, but no one seems to know how the wildlife's doing.

  • Current Surprises flow from Ruby Pipeline

    Surprises flow from Ruby Pipeline

    A conservation fund provided by an energy company enrages ranchers across Oregon, Nevada, Utah and Wyoming.

  • Current The life and death of Desert Rock

    The life and death of Desert Rock

    The Navajo Nation's proposed 1,500-megawatt coal plant always rested on shaky ground. Now, it may collapse entirely.

  • Current Monstertruck alley

    Monstertruck alley

    Imperial Oil's plan to transport gigantic equipment to Alberta, Canada, will require major work on highways in Idaho and Montana.

  • Current

    Leasing lag?

    The BLM is offering less land for oil and gas leasing in Wyoming.

  • Current Vermillion surprise

    Vermillion surprise

    BLM's no-drilling decision in Colorado startles locals.

  • News Shades of hope for uranium's forgotten victims

    Shades of hope for uranium's forgotten victims

    A proposed bill expands compensation for sick workers.

  • Multimedia High Country Views, episode 7

    High Country Views, episode 7

    Rachel Waldholz, Sarah Gilman and Cally Carswell talk fracking and onshore oil and gas drilling.

  • Multimedia Drilling on the green

    Drilling on the green

    Residents of Battlement Mesa react to gas drilling in their community.

  • Current Clean air, hazy politics

    Clean air, hazy politics

    A new Colorado air quality law pits coal against natural gas -- and rural environmentalists against urban ones.

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