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  • Current State trust lands at a glance

    State trust lands at a glance

    The West's state trust lands form a complex patchwork, and each state manages them differently.

  • Feature Greening a city ... and pushing other colors out

    Greening a city ... and pushing other colors out

    The proposed redevelopment of San Francisco's Bayview neighborhood worries its longtime black residents, who fear gentrification will drive them out.

  • Opinion

    Will an illegal BLM study seal southern Utah's fate?

    The deep flaws in the BLM's inventory of Utah wild lands may doom many irreplaceable landscapes that were eliminated from wilderness consideration.

  • Current Green 'New Urbanist' development rises in Albuquerque suburbs

    Green 'New Urbanist' development rises in Albuquerque suburbs

    An ambitious green development is in the works on Mesa del Sol just outside of Albuquerque, N.M.

  • Letters

    Evolution not revolution

  • Current State and municipal governments fertilize local food craze

    State and municipal governments fertilize local food craze

    Local governments are trying to give a boost to small farmers and organic growers.

  • Book Reviews Rethinking national parks and wilderness

    Rethinking national parks and wilderness

    William Tweed takes a loving but critical look at the National Park Service in Uncertain Path: A Search for the Future of National Parks.

  • Current State trust lands serve public

    State trust lands serve public

    Some Western states still fund their schools partly through their state trust lands.

  • Feature Farming's Toxic Legacy

    Farming's Toxic Legacy

    Long-banned pesticides linger in the soils of neighborhoods built on former agricultural land in central Washington.

  • Sidebar How to Play Safely in the Soil

    How to Play Safely in the Soil

    High Country News offers tips on how to garden safely if your home is built on at-risk former farmland.

  • Sidebar Backyard poisons?

    Backyard poisons?

    Soil samples from the yards of two Yakima families showed intriguing but not always comforting results.

  • Editor's Note What lies beneath

    What lies beneath

    When pesticide chemicals were found underneath the houses of Barber Orchard, N.C., it aroused fears nationwide about the risks of building on former agricultural land.

  • Multimedia High Country Views: Fire in the foothills

    High Country Views: Fire in the foothills

    The aftermath of Boulder's destructive Fourmile Canyon fire.

  • Current Lumbering along, barely

    Lumbering along, barely

    The timber from Colorado's beetle-killed trees is not finding much of a market.

  • Current Parting the Redwood Curtain

    Parting the Redwood Curtain

    A one-mile-long highway project could change life for two remote counties in Northern California.

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