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  • 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.

  • News Taxed off the farm

    Taxed off the farm

    New enforcement of rural property tax laws could price out longtime residents in northern New Mexico counties.

  • News

    Beloved companion or Parisian dinner?

    Slaughter ban backfires for U.S. horses

  • 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.

  • News

    Guest workers: Laborers or commodity?

    Commentary: states trying to maneuver around feds' failure to act

  • 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.

  • News

    More precious than gold?

    After 18 years, agreements pave the way for a mine on Buckhorn Mountain

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • Related Stories

    The short life of Lisbon Valley

    A brief timeline traces the brief history of Utah’s Lisbon Valley Mine.

  • Related Stories

    A Rico renaissance

    The tiny mountain town of Rico, Colo., finds its post-mining economy threatened by a possible mining resurgence.

  • Related Stories

    Mining the West

    A potpourri of maps and graphics illustrates the complex nature of hardrock mining in the West today.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • News

    Mining reform has one foot in the door

    Bill passes House, but Senate expected to start from scratch

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