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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. Subscribers only

  • 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. Subscribers only

  • 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. Subscribers only

  • Nonprofitable times

    Many conservation groups are feeling the pinch. Subscribers only

 

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  • Two weeks in the West

    On public lands throughout the West, hikers, bikers, horseback riders and off-roaders compete for trail space, while beleaguered land-managers struggle to come up with workable forest management plans.

  • Private landowners become lords of the public estate

    A landowner locks a gate on a road into Arizona’s Aravaipa Canyon, highlighting an increasingly bitter debate over access to public lands in the West

  • Heard around the West

    Anchovies and evolution clash in Idaho; why do chickens cross the road; cockfighting in California; unexpected Arizona refunds; short enough now to fly a plane; deer meets Wal-Mart in Nebraska

  • Learning from Moab's example

    In the North Fruita Desert of western Colorado, the BLM has come up with a plan to enable motorized and non-motorized recreationists to share the outdoors

  • Heard around the West

    Pac-O-Art art vending machine; turning against Wal-Mart; Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest; Boy Scouts sued for blaze; ORVers need potty-training; bull elk get really hungry

  • New rules coming down for off-roaders

    The Forest Service plans to rein in cross-country travel by off-road vehicles, but enforcing new rules may prove next to impossible

  • Motorized recreation belongs in the backcountry

    Off-road vehicle users need to be responsible, but at the same time they should fight against any restrictions to backcountry riding

  • Off-road vehicles are chewing up our public lands

    The only solution to the destruction of public lands by off-highway vehicles is to begin to restrict their use in the backcountry

  • Can skiers and snowmobilers coexist?

    Dutchman Flat outside Bend, Ore., is becoming tense as snowmobilers and backcountry skiers argue over winter recreation

  • Yellowstone snowmobilers suffer whiplash

    Judge Emmet Sullivan reinstates a Clinton-era ban on snowmobiles in Yellowstone and Grand Teton national parks

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