http://www.hcn.org daily 1 2008-06-25T21:37:51Z http://www.hcn.org/issues/44.2/can-snowshoe-hares-adapt-to-climate-change The seasonal coat changes of snowshoe hares may provide wildlife biologists with clues about how wild animals evolve in response to climate change. No publisher Hillary Rosner evolution assisted migration habitat changes Scott Mills climate change Hot Times snowshoe hares biologists animal seasonal coat changes 2012-02-13T14:56:46Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/44.2/a-young-wolf-wanders-the-west OR-7, a young Oregon wolf, has logged some 1,000 miles in his journey through the West, becoming the first wild wolf seen in California since 1924. No publisher Tim Lydon OR-7 Western culture and history wilderness Wallowa Mountains Great Basin Imnaha Pack West Cascades wolves animal migration 2012-02-10T15:14:07Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/wotr/when-an-avalanche-comes-calling Some backcountry skiers are triggering avalanches without regard for those who might be skiing below them. No publisher Molly Loomis backcountry skiing Nordic skiers avalanche prevention Cross-country skiing triggered avalanches winter recreation 2012-02-08T22:03:14Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/wotr/the-education-of-an-oyster-farmer If you want to run a successful oyster farm, you need to develop a taste for eating raw oysters. No publisher Lissa James Kumamoto oyster Pacific Coast oysters ocean ecology Hama Hama oyster raw oysters ostreaphiles rural life climate change Oyster farming local foods ocean acidification sustainable farming Hood Canal oysters oyster recipes unusual family businesses 2012-02-08T21:47:14Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/44.2/fearful-of-Agenda-21-an-alleged-united-nations-plot-activists-derail-land-use-planning A two-year planning process in La Plata County, Colorado gets hijacked by activists suspicious of United Nations influence. And in the West and nationwide, they're not alone. No publisher Jonathan Thompson Agender movement smart growth ICLEI land-use planning La Plata County Commission Tea Party Agenda 21 United Nations 2012-02-06T18:53:58Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/44.2/montana-court-defends-law-defying-citizens-united As elections of state judges become increasingly contentious, the Montana Supreme Court defends the state's Corrupt Practices Act against the Citizens United decision. No publisher Rebecca Stanfel state judge elections retention elections 1912 Corrupt Practices Act Citizens United decision corporate political contributions Montana Supreme Court 2012-02-01T18:01:53Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/wotr/your-trash-is-my-treasure If you want to find an inexpensive, entertaining way to furnish your house, try raiding the garbage in a resort town like Crested Butte, Colo. No publisher Dawne Belloise frugality secondhand stores Crested Butte Garbage recycling trash sustainable living thrift 2012-02-01T17:04:00Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/44.1/a-mom-and-pop-oil-company-prospects-for-gas-in-central-wyoming Wold Oil Properties is a wildcatter - a small company that explores for oil and gas in areas where the fuels aren't known to exist in valuable quantities. No publisher Emilene Ostlind Richard Findley Niobrara Shale oil wells gas wells small oil companies energy industry Bakken Shale fracking Aaron Otteman Pinedale Anticline Wold Oil Properties John Wold geologists wildcatting wildcatters oil and gas exploration horizontal drilling 2012-02-01T15:17:31Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/wotr/let-the-epa-finish-its-work-in-pavillion-wyoming The gas industry and its political partners are going to great lengths to try to derail and discredit an EPA report that blames Pavillion, Wyoming’s polluted water on hydraulic fracking. No publisher John Fenton groundwater pollution ranchers fracking chemicals Wyoming fracking hydraulic fracturing Pavillion drinking water oil and gas industry water pollution toxic chemicals EPA 2012-01-25T16:55:03Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/44.1/detente-in-the-rancher-v.-environmentalist-grazing-wars Buying out grazing permits from willing ranchers could help solve conflicts over grazing on public lands. No publisher Jodi Peterson Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility rural economy ranchers John Barrasso National Environmental Policy Act public lands grazing Forest Service Brian Ertz Bureau of Land Management Grazing allotments buying out grazing permits Bush environmental policy Public Lands Council John Horning WildEarth Guardians cattle grazing sheep grazing livestock grazing Grazing Improvement Act federal lands management grazing lawsuits Western Watersheds Project Obama environmental policy agriculture legislative gridlock grazing laws rural communities Endangered Species Act Omnibus Public Lands Management Act Rep. Adam Smith bighorn sheep sheepherders grazing wars 112th Congress overgrazing Rural Economic Vitalization Act range improvements 2012-01-29T18:08:07Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/wotr/how-to-find-a-13-000-year-old-mammoth After seeing a drawing of a wooly mammoth in a Utah cave, the author ponders on the possibility they existed along with the humans who inhabited the U.S. Southwest years ago. No publisher Andrew Gulliford petroglyphs pictographs Utah Ancestral Puebloans San Juan County Mammoth woolly mammoth Anasazi Paleolithic animals 2012-01-19T15:58:07Z News Article