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Feeding the deer

A rural Californian doesn't apologize for feeding the deer that hang out near his mountain home.

by Jaime O'Neill, Jan 26, 2012
Water-quality standards unfairly burden rural communities

The plight of a small water and sewer association in rural Mora, N.M -- caught in a tangle of federal and state clean water rules it can’t afford to meet -- echoes experienced by other rural communities around the West.

by Judith Lewis Mernit, Dec 21, 2011
California's high-speed rail is slow to gain speed

The U.S. continues to trail the rest of the world in high-speed rail development, as California's long-planned bullet train is delayed yet again.

by Stephanie Paige Ogburn, Nov 28, 2011
Economies of vice

If marijuana becomes fully legal and taxable, it won't be the first time authorities have learned that it's easier - and more profitable - to manage vice than to try to eliminate it.

by Sarah Gilman, Aug 08, 2011
Obama's record on Western environmental issues

Not everybody is happy, but the Obama administration is making slow but steady progress in dealing with the West's environmental issues.

by Judith Lewis Mernit, Feb 06, 2011
High Country Views, Big solar marches on

Cally Carswell talks with HCN contributing editor Judith Lewis about the muscle the feds are putting behind solar energy development on public land.

by Cally Carswell, Dec 27, 2010
California's Tangled Water Politics

Will there ever be enough water in California's Bay Delta to satisfy farmers, keep fish alive and quench the thirst of millions of people?

by Matt Jenkins, Dec 19, 2010
California prepares for the next burn

Public officials – and even homeowners – are beginning to accept the inevitability of wildfires in the Golden State.

by Peter Friederici , Jun 05, 2009
Manufactured homes for the birds

Zoologist David Olson and his colleagues are trying to create artificial cacti to house the rare coastal cactus wren, whose cholla cactus habitat is being threatened by California’s recent wildfires.

by Joseph Sorrentino, Jul 18, 2008
PRO: The Tejon agreement is a true conservation victory

Graham Chisholm believes that an agreement involving open space, a large housing development and condor habitat on California’s Tejon Ranch is a “true conservation victory.”

by Graham Chisholm, Jun 23, 2008