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Video: Still howling wolf
The passionate and complicated feelings people have about living with wolves in the Northern Rockies.
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A good idea – if you can get away with it
Rainwater harvesting is against the law in many Western states, but folks in Utah, Colorado and Washington want to change that.
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What I will say to Americans once I am elected president
President Jim Stiles would tell the nation that it is past time we started living within our means – both economically and environmentally.
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The fruits of their labor
In Delta County, Colorado, a pilot program sent prisoners to work on three farms during the summer of 2008.
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Battleground!
HCN surveys the swingin' Western political landscape with this interactive map.
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Back to the future
A long time ago, the earth warmed considerably; now, scientists study fossils to find out what happened – and what it might mean for us today.
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Field Day
In some Western states, including Colorado, prison inmates are taking the place of immigrant farmworkers.
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Alexandra Fuller: A fine line between protest and profession
Author Alexandra Fuller talks about the impacts of oil drilling on her chosen home of Wyoming.
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The street hierarchy
Aaron Gilbreath mulls the very large difference between being a pedestrian in ultra-cool Portland, Ore., and in sprawling Phoenix, Ariz.
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Disposable Workers of the Oil and Gas Fields
by Ray Ring Jul 16, 2008 03:30 PMWithout a college degree, work on the oil and gas fields is the best job you can get in the rural West – unless, of course, it kills you
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It tolls for us
by John Mecklin Apr 02, 2007 12:00 PMThe energy boom in the Rocky Mountain West has been shadowed by a much darker boom: a frightening rise in death and serious injury
