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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: Immigration
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The invisible man
by Emma Brown and Carlos Davalos Oct 13, 2008 10:46 AMChilean guest-worker Ricardo Arriagada herds goats that eat weeds to help prevent brush fires in Hercules, Calif.
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Population’s Paul Revere?
by Marty Durlin May 26, 2008 12:00 PMFrosty Wooldridge sees himself as a kind of Paul Revere, tirelessly warning the West about overpopulation – especially in the form of illegal immigrants.
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Bring on the immigrants
by Pete Letheby May 28, 2007 12:00 PMPete Letheby says the vanishing towns of the Great Plains and Midwest ought to open a welcoming door for immigrants.
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One Nation, Under Fire
by John Dougherty Jul 16, 2008 03:28 PMThe Sonoran Desert homeland of the Tohono O’odham Nation has become a nerve-wracking police state, caught in the crossfire between drug and immigrant smugglers and the U.S. Border Patrol.
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The myth trafficker
by Michael Marizco Jul 16, 2008 03:24 PMKeoki Skinner deals lemonade and information from his yellow fruit-stand van in the border communities of Douglas, Ariz., and Agua Prieta, Mexico
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Raul Grijalva relishes a good fight
by Renee Guillory Jul 16, 2008 03:21 PMArizona Congressman Raul Grijalva loves fighting for old-fashioned liberal causes like immigration rights, the environment, unions and strong social programs
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The Immigrant's Trail
by Jonathan Thompson May 15, 2006 12:00 PMThis special issue of High Country News takes an on-the-ground look at the human landscape of illegal immigration in the West
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What I learned as a self-appointed immigration agent
by John Walker Apr 17, 2006 12:00 PMThe writer once tricked a visitor from Colombia into obeying the immigration law, which leads to his suggestions for reform
