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  • Current Small poultry farmers grapple with lack of slaughterhouses

    Small poultry farmers grapple with lack of slaughterhouses

    There just aren't enough slaughterhouses for small poultry farms in Oregon and other Western states.

  • Letters

    Toxic soil, East to West

  • Letters

    Reclamation reality check

  • Current All hopped up

    All hopped up

    Organic hop growers are toasting new regulations that require organic beers to use organic hops.

  • Feature Hardrock Mining Showdown

    Hardrock Mining Showdown

    In southern Arizona, the Forest Service is debating whether to defy the 1872 Mining Law and stop a controversial copper mine.

  • Editor's Note Mining Reform: Deja vu again and again

    Mining Reform: Deja vu again and again

    A 138-year-old law blocks serious hardrock mining reform, despite the untiring work of activists.

  • Current Buy buy ballot

    Buy buy ballot

    Although most Nevadans seemed in favor of a hardrock mining tax increase, an initiative that proposed to do just that never made it to the ballot.

  • Perspective Not good news for the locals

    Not good news for the locals

    Afghanis might learn from history what happens to people who live above valuable minerals.

  • Feature Nevada's Golden Child

    Nevada's Golden Child

    Hardrock mining's outsized political power in Nevada may finally be eroding, thanks to state budget woes.

  • Letters

    A beeting

  • Letters

    Put a (GMO) tiger in your tank

  • Evidence Metalpalooza '09

    Metalpalooza '09

    Metals mining is making an unexpectedly dramatic comeback in the West.

  • Writers on the Range Phosphate mining: a toxic tradition

    Phosphate mining: a toxic tradition

    Simplot plans for a phosphate mine in southeast Idaho endanger a family's ranching lifestyle.

  • Two Weeks in the West Indians vs. Greens?

    Indians vs. Greens?

    In a controversial resolution, Hopi and Navajo politicians have told environmentalists – including grassroots Indian groups – that they are not welcome on the Rez.

  • Writers on the Range Aldo Leopold might call it the new agrarianism

    Aldo Leopold might call it the new agrarianism

    Aldo Leopold advocated many conservation methods, but perhaps most important, he advocated a land ethic.

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