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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: Mormons
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Religion, politics and culture
by Jonathan Thompson Oct 23, 2008 07:00 AMWhen religion tries to dominate culture and politics, it hurts all three, as seen in the battle over the rights of gay Americans.
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Prophets and politics
by Ray Ring Oct 20, 2008 02:35 PMThe Mormon Church works to ban gay marriage in California, even as gay people in places like Rexburg, Idaho, come out of the LDS closet.
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The Silence of the Bees
by Hannah Nordhaus Jul 16, 2008 03:30 PMMigratory beekeeper John Miller hauls his hives across the West, pollinating everything from almonds to apples, but a nasty parasite and a mysterious disorder are making life much harder for John and his buzzing business partners.
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The West remains a mysterious region
by Ed Quillen Jan 10, 2008 01:00 PMEd Quillen says that even in this so-called “Year of the West,” presidential candidates and media pundits demonstrate a deplorable ignorance of the region’s history and culture.
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Fightin’ against the feds
by Michelle Blank May 28, 2007 12:00 PMUtah state Rep. Mike Noel is still fighting the federal government over Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument
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Finding good grub in Mormon redrock country
by Michelle Nijhuis May 16, 2005 12:00 PMIn With a Measure of Grace: The Story and Recipes of a Small Town Restaurant, Blake Spalding and Jennifer Castle tell how they ended up running the Hell’s Backbone Grill in the remote community of Boulder, Utah
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Mormonism 101: A primer for gentiles
by Rosemary Winters Dec 22, 2003 01:00 PMThe Mormon Church, founded by Joseph Smith in the early 19th century, has a distinctive set of doctrines, theology and church governance
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Being Green in the Land of the Saints
by Rosemary Winters Dec 22, 2003 01:00 PMMormons are often stereotyped as conservative anti-environmentalists, but Utah activists Richard Ingebretsen and Chris Peterson of the Glen Canyon Institute want to convince fellow believers that it’s OK to be green
