Growth & Planning
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Writers on the Range
When mud-boggers rip up the land, penalize them
Mike Beagle urges public-land agencies to ticket land-wrecking off-road riders.
by Mike Beagle, Jun 18, 2007 -
News
Advice from a horse
An HCN intern goes for a backcountry horse ride, and learns that while sharing trails can be a challenge, the payoff is worth it.
by Eve Rickert, Jun 15, 2007 -
Writers on the Range
A hope for Father’s Day from a divorced father
Harold Shepherd, a divorced father, works hard to maintain a loving, outdoors-oriented relationship with his children.
by Harold Shepherd, Jun 14, 2007 -
Book Reviews
Western open space: Land of intrinsic worth
In the anthology Home Land: Ranching and a West That Works, a wide variety of authors argue that ranching is much more than an outmoded “lifestyle.”
by Linda Hasselstrom, Jun 11, 2007 -
News
Tribal victory
In Washington state, the Yakama Tribe purchases its traditional fishing grounds at Lyle Point on the Columbia River
by Terri C. Hansen, Jun 11, 2007 -
Writers on the Range
Bring on the immigrants
Pete Letheby says the vanishing towns of the Great Plains and Midwest ought to open a welcoming door for immigrants.
by Pete Letheby, May 28, 2007 -
Writers on the Range
Fees have become a public-lands shakedown
Ted Williams says charging fees to use public lands is worse than extortion.
by Ted Williams, May 21, 2007 -
Book Reviews
British writer tackles border politics
British author Bella Pollen’s new novel, Midnight Cactus, looks at Arizona’s border issues through the eyes of an upper-class English newcomer who has left her executive husband and sought refuge in a ghost town.
by Julie Foster, May 14, 2007 -
Two Weeks in the West
Two weeks in the West
Western real estate slump hits suburbs, but developers keep on developing; Marijuana McMansions; copper booming; Logan, Utah, rejects dirty power; Tri-State puts off two coal power plants; animals killed by Wildlife Services
by Jonathan Thompson, Apr 30, 2007 -
Book Reviews
The granddaddy of all collaboration groups
In his beautiful, compact book Working Wilderness, Nathan Sayres tells the story of the Malpai Borderlands Group, “the most hailed example of collaborative place-based resource management in the West.”
by Paul Larmer, Apr 30, 2007 -
Writers on the Range
Why the West should copy Swiss transit
The contrast between a Mount Hood traffic jam and a week in a car-free Swiss resort convinces Bill Cook that the West needs to get serious about mass transit.
by Bill Cook, Apr 30, 2007 -
Writers on the Range
Killer commutes in the rural West
Alan Kesselheim ranks some of the gnarliest commutes in the region.
by Alan Kesselheim, Apr 30, 2007 -
News
One of Interior’s departed returns to D.C. (for a short while)
Q and A with Ann Morgan, the former Colorado director of the BLM, who recently testified before Congress about the agency's push to open its lands to drilling.
by Paul Larmer, Apr 30, 2007 -
Writers on the Range
Wealthy landowners and locals wade into the ditch
Jack Wright thinks Montanans are over-reacting to stream-access issues; after all, from the point of view of a fish, it’s a good thing when a rich man restores a stream, even if he locks out trespassers.
by Jack Wright, Apr 16, 2007 -
News
The sacred and the toxic
Just over the Arizona-Sonora border, Tohono O’odham traditionalists have joined environmental groups in fighting a proposed Mexican hazardous waste landfill.
by John Dougherty, Apr 16, 2007
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