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The wild we take for granted
Delight in the animals and places that are close to home but often ignored by us.
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Time to reform and repair
Paul Larmer reminds us that it will take more than a single environmental hero – like Tim DeChristopher, who cleverly sabotaged a BLM energy-lease auction – to reform the agency.
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Video: Humor in a world gone mad
Moab cartoonist Travis Kelly creates political cartoons in order to stay sane.
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Off the grid, but not off his rocker
Moab cartoonist Travis Kelly lives in a solar school bus, and creates political cartoons to stay sane.
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Trashing the earth, and the truth
Hal Herring relates the ugly story of how the Bush administration used its influence to try to kill a story about the impacts of energy development.
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As Interior Turns
During the last eight years, Bush’s Interior Department has been embroiled in enough corruption, sex and scandal to fuel several soap operas.
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The sick and tired West
The EPA under George Bush has put the health of Westerners at risk in order to make life easier for big industry.
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Nonprofitable times
Many conservation groups are feeling the pinch.
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Results for keyword: Hiking
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Take a hike!
by Rob Pudim Oct 20, 2008 02:35 PMRob Pudim recalls his own adventurous childhood, and wonders why today’s kids are so unwilling to go outside and get dirty.
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Bear necessities
by Seth T. Cohen Oct 13, 2008 12:55 PMSeth Cohen describes a close encounter with a grizzly – and an even closer encounter with grizzly-strength pepper spray.
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Dry-hiking in a desert awash with history
by Lee Ross Oct 16, 2006 12:00 PMA 61-year-old hiker and two middle-aged friends take an epic hike through Arizona in David Roberts’ new book, Sandstone Spine
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Leave only footprints, and turn the darn phone off
by Becky Lomax Oct 02, 2006 12:00 PMCell phones have their uses, but they do not belong in the wilderness
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The time I was struck by lightning
by Rob Pudim Sep 25, 2006 12:00 PMThe writer climbs a mountain in Colorado and meets a lightning bolt head on
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Leave only footprints, and turn the darn phone off
by Becky Lomax Sep 18, 2006 12:00 PMThe writer has a message for hikers in the backcountry: Turn your darned cell phone off!
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My Wonderful Heart Attack
by Rob Pudim Aug 14, 2006 12:00 PMThe writer counts the ways he has changed since suffering a major heart attack in Colorado
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Shooting at hikers is perfectly legal
by Jeff Johnson Jul 16, 2008 04:06 PMThe writer and his family duck bullets on a hiking trail through a Colorado national forest, then find that the shooters were within their rights
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Mountain Harmonies
by Staff Feb 07, 2005 01:00 PMIn Mountain Harmonies, Howard Smith muses on environmental philosophy as he takes readers from Glacier National Park to New Mexico’s Gila Wilderness
