Growth & Planning
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News
Death, and taxes
In Western communities with runaway land values, many ranching heirs have a hard time holding on to the family farm.
by Jennie Lay, Aug 15, 2008 -
Winning the West
Primer 6: Immigration
Our policies are schizophrenic.
by Jonathan Thompson, Jul 05, 2008 -
News
Regulating the river
Montana counties set streamside setbacks
by Andrea Appleton, Jul 03, 2008 -
Essays
Plowing under the fields of shame
Rebecca Clarren talks to migrant farmworker women about a threat they face every day in the fields: sexual harassment and assault by coworkers and bosses.
by Rebecca Clarren, Apr 14, 2008 -
News
The leasing protest game
Conservationists can file formal protests when the BLM wants to auction off public land to energy companies, but the differences between regional management plans and styles make the protest game little more than a crapshoot.
by April Reese, Apr 14, 2008 -
News
Yellowstone grazing allotments
Buyouts and tradeoffs
by Francisco Tharp, Mar 21, 2008 -
Two Weeks in the West
Two weeks in the West
A flurry of end-of-year easements saves lots of lovely landscapes; heli-skiing wins in Utah; snow-lovers help starving Colorado deer; a possible ceasefire on the Klamath; and bark beetles are destroying Colorado’s lodgepole pines.
by Jodi Peterson, Feb 04, 2008 -
Writers on the Range
Whatever we do about illegal immigration, somebody suffers
Philip Cafaro takes a thoughtful look at the impacts of illegal immigration on Colorado’s construction trade.
by Philip Cafaro, Jan 28, 2008 -
Writers on the Range
A bad idea hits the gas pumps
Dustin Heron Urban resolves never to put ethanol-spiked gasoline into his Prius again.
by Dustin Heron Urban, Jan 21, 2008 -
Two Weeks in the West
Two weeks in the West
EPA stymies California’s attempt to cut tailpipe emissions; the West is growing but not sure where its next meal or drink of water will come from; increasing amounts of ammonium – and guns – in the parks; avalanche fatalities are up.
by Sarah Gilman and Jodi Peterson, Jan 21, 2008 -
Writers on the Range
Ranching still has a place on our public lands
Mary Flitner believes public-land ranchers and Forest Service employees can – and should – get along with each other.
by Mary Flitner, Dec 24, 2007 -
News
The Promised Land?
In Boulder County, Colo., a megachurch that wants to expand is using a little-known but powerful federal law to bypass local land-use rules.
by Isabelle Groc, Dec 24, 2007 -
Editor's Note
The Sagebrush Rebels ride again -- and again
Despite the rhetoric of the Sagebrush Rebel lawyers, most of today’s Westerners understand that the public land is a national resource that belongs to all of us.
by Paul Larmer, Dec 10, 2007 -
Feature
Rebels with a Lost Cause
The fiercely conservative lawyers of the Sagebrush Rebellion continue to fight against environmental regulations, but despite all their sound and fury, very little has changed on the public lands.
by Ray Ring, Dec 10, 2007 -
News
Red Desert rarity
Wyoming moves to protect Adobe Town – but will the feds follow suit?
by James Yearling, Dec 06, 2007






