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After too many recent dry years, residents of the Rocky Mountains are relishing the music of running water.
by Allen Best,
Jul 21, 2011
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In most of the West’s complicated environmental
problems, so-called “unlikely alliances” between greens
and their opposite numbers are really not that unlikely after
all.
by Jonathan Thompson,
Jun 23, 2008
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Ted Williams says killing fish, birds and sea lions to
save endangered salmon is like drinking snake-oil elixir to cure a
serious illness.
by Ted Williams,
May 12, 2008
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The Salton Sea might appear to be dying, but like many
another story in the West, it isn’t over with yet.
by Paul Larmer,
Mar 03, 2008
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Sometimes it seems that only the impact of a severe
drought can get Westerners to work together on water
issues
by Paul Larmer,
May 14, 2007
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The Verde River is one of Arizona’s last
free-flowing stream, but environmental and local activists fear an
ambitious planned pipeline, designed to bring groundwater to the
growing Prescott area, will end up sucking the river dry
by Tony Davis,
May 14, 2007
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When national Trout Unlimited tried to get its Montana
branch to stay out of state stream-access issues, the Montanans
rebelled dramatically, much to Pat Munday’s
delight.
by Pat Munday,
Apr 16, 2007
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Despite a relatively snowy winter here in western
Colorado, the season itself seems to have shrunk, with spring
arriving weeks earlier than it once did in a trend with ominous
consequences for the desert Southwest, particularly
Phoenix.
by Paul Larmer,
Apr 16, 2007
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Craig Childs lifts the rug of modern-day Phoenix, Ariz.,
to examine the remnants of the civilization that preceded it
– the Hohokam people, who also built a great city in the
middle of the desert, and flourished until the day they ran out of
water.
by Craig Childs,
Apr 16, 2007
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Jack Wright thinks Montanans are over-reacting to
stream-access issues; after all, from the point of view of a fish,
it’s a good thing when a rich man restores a stream, even if
he locks out trespassers.
by Jack Wright,
Apr 02, 2007
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