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The great giveaway
by Emily Steinmetz Oct 13, 2008 11:00 AMBrand-new resource management plans from Utah’s BLM welcome ATVs and energy development onto some of the state’s most fragile land.
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Acidifying oceans
by J. Madeleine Nash Oct 13, 2008 09:08 AMPaleo-oceanographer James Zachos points to evidence of the last time climate change acidified the oceans, some 55 million years ago.
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Field Day
by Marty Durlin Oct 10, 2008 11:04 AMIn some Western states, including Colorado, prison inmates are taking the place of immigrant farmworkers.
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A good idea – if you can get away with it
by Peter Friederici Oct 08, 2008 12:43 PMRainwater harvesting is against the law in many Western states, but folks in Utah, Colorado and Washington want to change that.
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Audio: Politics on planet Idaho
by Ray Ring Oct 07, 2008 01:15 PMJust how bad or good are Idaho's environmental politics? On September 18, High Country News gathered Idaho politicians and environmentalists for a lively exploration of these questions.
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The great giveaway
by Emily Steinmetz Oct 03, 2008 11:40 AMThe BLM hurriedly releases six proposed resource management plans for 11 million acres of public land in Utah, leaving little time to respond.
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Leaky border
by Rob Davis Sep 12, 2008 09:15 AMEfforts to stop wastewater pollution from Tijuana have bogged down in a nasty mess.
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The deja-vu of ‘Drill here, drill now’
by Ed Quillen Sep 11, 2008 12:55 PMDespite a few sensible aspects, Jimmy Carter’s ideas about energy would not have been good for the West’s environment.
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A river runs near it
by Joshua Zaffos Sep 10, 2008 03:36 PMIn Washington’s Yakima Valley and in northern Colorado, water developers want to build kindler, gentler “off-channel” reservoirs.
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All along the watchtower
by Eric Wagner Sep 02, 2008 12:40 PMAndrew McNair, who works weekends at a computer in Olympia, Wash., is not your typical Western fire watcher.
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Fifty summers and 360 degrees
by Erin Halcomb Sep 02, 2008 12:40 PMNancy Hood has spent 50 summers watching for fires from lookouts in the smoky Siskiyou Mountains of Northern California.
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Dust on the rocks
by Keith Kloor Aug 29, 2008 03:10 PMThe results of a scientific study on the effects of dust on rock art are somehow “lost” in the haze of Barrett Corporation’s drilling in Utah’s Nine Mile Canyon.
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Riparian repair
by Cleo Woelfle-Erskine Aug 27, 2008 08:55 AMRiver restorationists tackle the Clark Fork River near Milltown, Mont., in a project that demonstrates how hard it is to revive a damaged waterway.
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McCain: T.R. or W?
by John Dougherty Aug 25, 2008 04:36 PMJohn McCain likes to compare himself to Teddy Roosevelt, but his conservation record is closer to that of a less-popular Republican: George W. Bush.
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Braving the political winds
by Eric Peterson Aug 20, 2008 11:55 AMRegion 8 EPA official Robbie Roberts retired in June, leaving a legacy of strong critiques of runaway energy development.
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Death, and taxes
by Jennie Lay Aug 15, 2008 05:20 PMIn Western communities with runaway land values, many ranching heirs have a hard time holding on to the family farm.
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Crash of the cottonwoods
by Gisela Telis Aug 13, 2008 09:44 AMAcross the West, cottonwoods are dying, and no one is sure how to save these iconic trees.
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When endangered foxes are on the menu
by Kim Todd Aug 04, 2008 12:00 AMScientists faced a quandary when they had to consider killing golden eagles in order to save rare foxes on the Channel Islands off the California coast.
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Going to the gasroots
by Sarah Gilman Aug 04, 2008 12:00 AMIn western Colorado, oil and gas companies mobilize in a publicity blitz to pack a Grand Junction hearing about proposed changes to the state’s natural gas drilling rules.
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The wandering lepidopterist
by Eric Wagner Aug 03, 2008 12:00 AMEric Wagner joins naturalist Robert Michael Pyle on one leg of his first-ever “Big Year” – in which he will try to see as many different butterflies as he possibly can.
