Water
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Current
The Bakken oil play spurs a booming business -- in water
Hydraulic fracturing's extraordinary appetite for water is creating friction between North Dakota's farmers and drillers.
by Nicholas Kusnetz, Aug 06, 2012 -
Multimedia
A ride with a Bakken water trucker
Reporter Nicholas Kusnetz rides along with Mike Reynolds, who left his logging business in Washington State to work trucking water to the Bakken's oil fields.
by Nicholas Kusnetz, Aug 05, 2012 -
Current
Oregon ignores logging road runoff, to the peril of native fish
Oregon has long refused to regulate sediment runoff from logging roads as pollution under the Clean Water Act. Now, the U.S. Supreme Court will decide what the state should do.
by Joshua Zaffos, Jul 27, 2012 -
Essays
Learning a landscape by tracking its rivers
A newcomer to Montana tries to understand the state's place in the West by figuring where its rivers flow.
by Lauren Koshere, Jun 11, 2012 -
Essays
Kayaking memories on the White Salmon River
Will all of a kayaker's memories of Washington's White Salmon River change once the river changes, now that Condit Dam is gone?
by Mike Barenti, May 24, 2012 -
Current
Balancing fish and farms on a Washington estuary
A restoration effort at Fisher Slough in Washington's Skagit River Delta has encouraged cooperation between farmers and environmentalists - and might even help endangered chinook salmon.
by Eric Wagner, May 08, 2012 -
Letters
Bravo, Bob!
by Albert A. Bartlett, Apr 29, 2012 -
Multimedia
Lost and found waterways
Rediscovering the forgotten rivers and streams of Los Angeles and Tucson.
by Cally Carswell, Apr 17, 2012 -
Letters
Diverters be damned
by Greg Poschman, Apr 15, 2012 -
Letters
At the boiling point
by Leslie Glustrom, Apr 15, 2012 -
Essays
Could doing chores save the world?
While living at a remote commune in the wilds of New Mexico, author Emily Schosid learned what real sustainability means. And it’s not at all what you’d expect.
by Emily Schosid, Apr 08, 2012 -
Writers on the Range
Conserving water makes more sense than moving it around
It makes both ecological and economic sense to try to use water more efficiently, rather than gamble on high-stakes, ill-advised, expensive water diversion schemes.
by Sharlene Leurig, Apr 02, 2012 -
Feature
A Colorado newspaperman fights for his valley's water
Bob Rawlings, publisher of the Pueblo Chieftain, has battled for decades to bring water to southeastern Colorado and, once it's there, to keep it no matter what.
by Matt Jenkins, Mar 26, 2012 -
Letters
Watershed investments
by Wes Swaffar, Mar 18, 2012 -
Editor's Note
Colorado water diversions, urban and rural
Colorado's Front Range and Western Slope communities and farms have always wrangled over the water produced high in the Rocky Mountains.
by Sarah Gilman, Mar 18, 2012
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