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Current
Canadian farmer Gary Lewis, fed up with the failures of synthetic fertilizer, has invented a system called Bio-Agtive Emissions Technology, a tractor add-on that recycles diesel emissions into fertilizer.
by Marian Lyman Kirst,
May 23, 2012
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Multimedia
Soaring prices are driving a new gold rush -- among mining behemoths and small-time prospectors.
by Cally Carswell,
May 22, 2012
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Current
The conservative, golf-playing retirees of Queen Valley, Ariz., are determined to stop a giant copper mine.
by Kari Lydersen,
May 18, 2012
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Feature
by High Country News,
Apr 16, 2012
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Current
The biofuels "corn bubble" and other financial incentives encourage farmers to plow up native grassland in the sensitive Northern Plains prairie potholes ecosystem; government policies don't help.
by Stephanie Paige Ogburn,
Mar 19, 2012
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Writers on the Range
Farmers in Nebraska are feeling the pressure from groups that demand better treatment for animals on factory farms.
by Pete Letheby,
Mar 16, 2012
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Writers on the Range
Four families cooperate on conservation easements in order to save a huge ranch in Colorado from development.
by Kerry Brophy Lloyd,
Mar 14, 2012
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Writers on the Range
If you want to run a successful oyster farm, you need to develop a taste for eating raw oysters.
by Lissa James,
Feb 08, 2012
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Letters
by Michael Powers,
Feb 06, 2012
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Letters
by Michelle Schmidtke, DVM,
Jan 23, 2012
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Uncommon Westerners
The "overeducated cowboy" Raymond Ansotegui roams the West in the "Shaggin' Wagon," artificially inseminating cattle with the help of friends and family.
by Seonaid B. Campbell,
Jan 06, 2012
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Letters
by Jim Allen,
Dec 26, 2011
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Uncommon Westerners
Frustrated by the difficulty of finding kosher meat from humanely raised animals, Rabbi Hersh Saunders began raising livestock and learned to butcher in the ritual way as a shochet.
by Shanna Lewis,
Dec 07, 2011
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Feature
When a giant dairy proposed building near Jerry Nivens' beloved New Mexico home, the chain-smoking Texas hermit became an activist who organized other locals to fight the industry.
by Stephanie Paige Ogburn,
Dec 05, 2011
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Feature
The old Ute-Ule mine site outside Lake City, Colo., is under scrutiny by the Hardrock Revision Team, which wants to clean up the mine and yet preserve it as a living and historic work of art.
by Laura Pritchett,
Dec 02, 2011
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