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  • News

    Good Samaritan bill could clean up old mines

    A bill introduced by Colorado Rep. John Salazar could make it easier for environmental groups and others to clean up pollution at thousands of orphaned hardrock mines

  • News

    Guest farmworkers get a new deal

    The United Farm Workers has signed a contract with agricultural labor-supply company Global Horizons protecting the rights of guest farmworkers

  • News

    Hobby miners flock to public streams

    Amateur gold prospectors are invading the West’s publicly owned streams, and environmentalists say the hobby’s popularity threatens fish and the environment

  • News

    Poison in the Wind

    As suburban neighborhoods sprawl into California’s agricultural land, residents are faced with pesticide drift and other problems

  • Book Reviews

    With liberty, justice, and locally produced food for all

    In Fields That Dream: A Journey to the Roots of Our Food, Jenny Kurzweil illustrates how agricultural injustices can be combated by purchasing food from socially conscious local producers

  • News

    Southwestern farmers, lawmakers seek solutions to worker shortages

    The Western Growers Association says its farmers need another 20,000 workers to harvest this winter’s crop, and President Bush endorses the idea of a guest-worker program to make it easier for migrant workers in the U.S.

  • Writers on the Range

    Bison aren’t Buicks, and other dangerous beliefs

    The writer says bison aren’t Buicks and neither are domestic cows

  • Writers on the Range

    Organic labels don’t tell the real story

    The writer says an organic label doesn’t tell consumers the whole story

  • Related Stories

    Universities lag on organics

    Montana’s land-grant universities have so far shown little interest in promoting organic agriculture

  • News

    A desperate move to protect cattle ranchers

    Wyoming Game and Fish plans to test feedgrounds elk and slaughter any that are infected with brucellosis in order to keep the disease from spreading to cattle

  • Editor's Note

    Thanks to the farmers

    Supporting sustainable, local, organic food production is one way to reduce our ecological impact and restore the West’s rural communities

  • Feature

    A New Green Revolution

    In Montana’s dying farm country, "vanguard agriculture" is putting people back to work on the land

  • Writers on the Range

    Oh, Christmas tree, oh, Christmas tree

    The writer says Christmas trees make the holiday real

  • News

    Sheepherders flock to better-paying jobs

    Wyoming lawmakers are trying to pass a law to prevent sheepherders from quitting their jobs without notice in search of better-paying employment

  • News

    Agriculture gets a half-step greener

    Protected Harvest is a nonprofit that offers certification to farmers who are interested in more eco-friendly practices, but not willing to become organic

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