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  • Hardrock Mining Showdown

    Hardrock Mining Showdown

    In southern Arizona, the Forest Service is debating whether to defy the 1872 Mining Law and stop a controversial copper mine.

  • Trouble in the PRB

    Trouble in the PRB

    Environmentalists are attacking "the heart of the beast": the coal mines in Wyoming's Powder River Basin.

  • Stealing the West, bone by bone

    Stealing the West, bone by bone

    People who take fossils from public lands are no better than thieves.

  • A wild area gets a reprieve

    A wild area gets a reprieve

    The Bureau of Land Management made the right call when it closed Colorado's Vermillion Basin to oil and gas development.

  • Leasing lag?

    The BLM is offering less land for oil and gas leasing in Wyoming.

  • Vermillion surprise

    Vermillion surprise

    BLM's no-drilling decision in Colorado startles locals.

  • How to return a pot

    How to return a pot

    The BLM offers advice for those who decide to return pilfered artifacts.

  • We need a solution to too many wild horses

    We need a solution to too many wild horses

    Wild horses are beautiful and romantic, but there isn't room for them on the West's overgrazed public lands.

  • We're still throwing horses overboard

    We're still throwing horses overboard

    America’s wild horses deserve our protection, and our respect.

  • Limbo land: Brownfields for green energy

    Limbo land: Brownfields for green energy

    Across the West, contaminated landscapes are becoming home to renewable energy projects.

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