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The battle against beetles
You wanna fight beetles? Then you've got to get rid of the trees.
by Vicki Lindner, Jul 01, 2009 -
Renewables: The Final Frontier
Vaclav Smil is a historian who exemplifies Vulcan-style logic and skepticism when it comes to easy solutions to energy problems.
by Randy Udall, Jun 26, 2009 -
Volunteers work to slow down kitten killing
If people would spay and neuter their pets, animal shelter volunteers would not have to euthanize kittens every spring.
by Alexa Mergen, Jun 11, 2009 -
On the waterfront
Bay Area environmental leader Whitney Dotson works to restore his community's waterways -- and health.
by Jeremy Miller, Jun 08, 2009 -
States rev up ORV rules
While federal public-land agencies dither, some Western states are cracking down on off-road vehicle problems.
by April Reese, Jun 03, 2009 -
Army targets southeastern Colorado rangelands
When the Army tries to expand a training site, patriotic ranchers feel as if they are under siege.
by Chris Frasier, May 30, 2009 -
Bring on the chickens
There’s nothing funnier or more educational than a flock of backyard chickens.
by Joanne Wilke , May 29, 2009 -
Paddling toward shore
The Suquamish Tribe is resurrecting the old ways of Northwestern Indians – particularly their traditional canoe journeys – to improve the health of its young people.
by Rebecca Clarren , May 27, 2009 -
Government capitalism can be a very good thing
The federal government should emulate FDR’s Rural Electrification Project: Put up the money to improve energy efficiency in the West, and let the locals do the work.
by George Sibley, May 22, 2009 -
Sci-fi conservation
Enviros create force-fields around national parks. Also: Recovery Act funds are coming to BLM lands in the Western states.
by Ray Ring , May 20, 2009 -
Call me a local and forget about my grandpappy
Small-town Westerners need to get over the notion that just because they have a grandparent buried nearby they deserve a greater voice in local politics.
by Gina Knudson, May 12, 2009 -
High Noon
Environmentalists are arguing passionately over large-scale solar development on California's Mojave Desert.
by Judith Lewis , May 11, 2009 -
Following your passion
The bones of Everett Ruess, who vanished into the desert at the age of 20, have been identified 75 years later, but the mystery of his life – and the details of his death – remain unknown.
by Philip L. Fradkin, May 08, 2009 -
Chill, baby, chill
The largest drilling boom in Western history is ending as new technologies make it easier to get shale gas from other parts of the country.
by Randy Udall, May 01, 2009 -
Renewing a battered land
Richard Manning looks at the prairie and considers its future in Rewilding the West: Restoration in a Prairie Landscape.
by Kyle Boelte, Apr 27, 2009 -
The Growth Machine is Broken
Phoenix land-use planners want to use a chunk of state trust land as a laboratory for future, more sustainable real estate development.
by John Dougherty , Apr 27, 2009 -
Coming to blows
Tribal infighting is delaying a wind farm planned for Gray Mountain on the Navajo Reservation.
by Gail Binkly, Apr 22, 2009 -
Why I ride the Greyhound
Every passenger aboard a bus becomes a citizen of the world, contemplating the Western landscape as it passes by.
by Brian Kevin , Apr 17, 2009 -
Conservation or cop-out?
A lack of participation could scuttle voluntary conservation agreements designed to protect species like New Mexico’s lesser prairie chickens and sand dune lizards.
by April Reese , Apr 15, 2009
