Results for keyword: conservation
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Conservation goals in Jackson Hole collide with a need for worker housing
In Wyoming's top resort town, the desire to protect the environment and the community's character kills big affordable housing projects.
by Ray Ring, Jun 17, 2013 -
The affordable housing quandary
In many Western communities, the more careful you are with land-use planning and wildlife conservation, the less you're doing for worker housing.
by Jonathan Thompson, Jun 10, 2013 -
Let's hear it for a bipartisan-minded Republican
Ronald Reagan conserved the environment while also being a Republican.
by Jim DiPeso, Jan 03, 2013 -
On the prowl with Oregon's pygmy owls
Biologist John Deshler knows more about pygmy owls than just about anyone. Writer Nick Neely spent a fascinating day with Deshler tracking, capturing and measuring the owls in Portland's Forest Park.
by Nick Neely, Jul 13, 2012 -
Power of the picture
High Country News photographer Morgan Heim joins the International League of Conservation Photographers to document the gasfields and the wildlands around Pinedale, Wyo.
by Jonathan Thompson, Jul 21, 2008 -
Stay in the Hunt
Jim Posewitz believes hunters can help save the planet with their clear-sighted, on-the-ground conservation ethic.
by Nathaniel Hoffman, Mar 17, 2008 -
Red Mountain miracle
In southern Colorado, conservation groups find a way to save 9,000 high-altitude acres from second-home development.
by Morgan Heim and Jonathan Thompson, Sep 07, 2007 -
The resurgence of hook-and-bullet conservation
Hunters have done a huge amount over the years to preserve wildlife and habitat, but the powerful group Sportsmen for Fish and Wildlife, with its obsessive focus on killing predators, seems to be taking a step backward
by Paul Larmer, Jun 25, 2007 -
Predator hunters for the environment
The group Sportsmen for Fish and Wildlife has helped to protect a lot of Western land and wildlife – while doing its best to kill off as many predators as possible
by Hal Herring, Jun 25, 2007 -
Saving the Sierra, tale by tale
Independent radio producers Catherine Stifter and jesikah maria ross are trying to help the Sierra Nevada by preserving the stories of the people who live there
by Jane Braxton Little, May 14, 2007
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