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Big game tag auctions raise big bucks for Western states

Hunting tag auctions may get too pricey for a lot of Western hunters, but they also raise significant money for conservation projects.

by Marian Lyman Kirst, Apr 16, 2012
Detente in the rancher v. environmentalist grazing wars?

Buying out grazing permits from willing ranchers could help solve conflicts over grazing on public lands.

by Jodi Peterson, Jan 23, 2012
A Q&A with former Colorado National Monument head Joan Anzelmo

The retired Park Service superintendent stands by her controversial decision not to allow a major bike race in the monument, and continues to be passionate about preserving landscapes.

by Emilene Ostline, Jan 09, 2012
The year 2011, in apocalyptic weather events

Fire and flood, snowstorms and droughts, downburst winds and desert haboobs -- 2011 brought incredibly wacky weather to the West.

by Jonathan Thompson, Dec 26, 2011
How Christo's opponents can change your mind

Amazing, isn't it, how really wacky arguments against a thing can turn you into an unwilling supporter of it – in this case, artist Christo’s project to drape Colorado's Arkansas River.

by Ed Quillen, Nov 25, 2011
The Second Second City

A native Chicagoan who now lives in Montana goes searching for New Chicago, Mont.

by Jeremy N. Smith, Sep 20, 2010
Peril in paradise

In The Light in High Places, naturalist Joe Hutto considers Wyoming wilderness, bighorn sheep, cowboys and other rare Western species.

by Cherie Newman, Jul 13, 2010
Ewe-haul

Over the last century, Wyoming has transplanted hundreds of bighorn sheep, both in-state and out, to buoy struggling herds.

by Sarah Gilman, Mar 15, 2010
Developer under fire for destroying desert

Developer George Johnson is being sued by the state of Arizona for major violations of environmental laws, committed in the early stages of his planned La Osa Ranch development

by Tony Davis, Apr 04, 2005

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Results for keyword: bighorn sheep

Big game tag auctions raise big bucks for Western states

Detente in the rancher v. environmentalist grazing wars?

A Q&A with former Colorado National Monument head Joan Anzelmo

The year 2011, in apocalyptic weather events

How Christo's opponents can change your mind

The Second Second City

Peril in paradise

Ewe-haul

Developer under fire for destroying desert

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