Mining & Agriculture
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News
Field Day
In some Western states, including Colorado, prison inmates are taking the place of immigrant farmworkers.
by Marty Durlin, Oct 10, 2008 -
Writers on the Range
Believe it or not: Ranching has something to teach us
Once denounced by many environmentalists, ranching is finally getting some respect, and Courtney White feels that it’s about time.
by Courtney White, Aug 06, 2008 -
News
Taxed off the farm
New enforcement of rural property tax laws could price out longtime residents in northern New Mexico counties.
by Emily Steinmetz, Jul 24, 2008 -
News
Beloved companion or Parisian dinner?
Slaughter ban backfires for U.S. horses
by Marty Durlin, Jul 03, 2008 -
Book Reviews
Loves, losses and utter disasters
In her new novel, The Berkeley Pit, Dorothy Bryant intertwines the stories of two very different Berkeleys: The California college town during the ‘60s, and the famously toxic open-pit mine in Butte, Mont.
by Tanya Lee, Jun 23, 2008 -
News
Guest workers: Laborers or commodity?
Commentary: states trying to maneuver around feds' failure to act
by Rebecca Clarren, Jun 13, 2008 -
News
Fields of overkill
In response to recent E. coli outbreaks, corporate buyers are pushing California farmers to rid their fields of all wildlife and wild vegetation – despite the fact that this could make the food supply even less safe.
by Li Miao Lovett, May 26, 2008 -
News
More precious than gold?
After 18 years, agreements pave the way for a mine on Buckhorn Mountain
by Marty Durlin, May 08, 2008 -
Writers on the Range
How to adopt a garden
This year, Ari LeVaux is breaking with his own tradition and planting his vegetable garden from starts rather than seeds.
by Ari LeVaux, Apr 21, 2008 -
Related Stories
Death of a mine
Utah’s Lisbon Valley Mine was supposed to be a hugely profitable copper producer; instead, it went belly-up in just two years.
by Jodi Peterson, Feb 18, 2008 -
Related Stories
The short life of Lisbon Valley
A brief timeline traces the brief history of Utah’s Lisbon Valley Mine.
by Jodi Peterson, Feb 18, 2008 -
Related Stories
A Rico renaissance
The tiny mountain town of Rico, Colo., finds its post-mining economy threatened by a possible mining resurgence.
by Marty Durlin, Feb 18, 2008 -
Related Stories
Mining the West
A potpourri of maps and graphics illustrates the complex nature of hardrock mining in the West today.
by Evelyn Schlatter and Francisco Tharp, Feb 18, 2008 -
Editor's Note
Men with boots
The transformation of once-scrappy mining towns like Silverton, Colo., and Superior, Ariz., into trendy tourist havens is bound to leave the locals with mixed feelings and some nostalgia.
by Jonathan Thompson, Feb 18, 2008 -
Feature
Reluctant Boomtown
A copper-mining company is courting Superior, Ariz., but the former mining town – now re-inventing itself as a modest tourist haven – is unsure whether it really wants a new marriage with extractive industry.
by Jonathan Thompson, Feb 18, 2008






