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Unregulated domestic wells are straining water supplies in Washington’s Yakima Valley and throughout the West.
by Cally Carswell,
Oct 19, 2009
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As bark beetles ravage Rocky Mountain forests, communities like Granby, Colo., have to adjust to a radically different landscape.
by Hillary Rosner,
Aug 10, 2009
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Phoenix land-use planners want to use a chunk of state trust land as a laboratory for future, more sustainable real estate development.
by John Dougherty ,
Apr 27, 2009
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Surprise, Ariz., exemplifies the Arizona real estate collapse along with what many see as the rise and fall of the car-dependent Western exurb.
by Rob Inglis and Jonathan Thompson ,
Apr 24, 2009
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The 12 young women whose bones were found on Albuquerque’s West Mesa led lives as unvalued as the sagebrush landscape that held their murdered bodies.
by Laura Paskus ,
Apr 10, 2009
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In Santa Fe, N.M., April Reese wrestles with the question of whether owning a new house is worth being responsible for the bulldozing of pinon and juniper trees.
by April Reese,
Jul 21, 2008
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Photographer Stephen Trimble offers suggestions for how
citizens and communities can reinvent their relationship with the
Western landscape.
by Stephen Trimble,
Jul 16, 2008
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Alan Kesselheim says Westerners should not be shocked when
a house built in a floodplain eventually falls victim to a
flood.
by Alan Kesselheim,
Jun 23, 2008
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Graham Chisholm believes that an agreement involving open
space, a large housing development and condor habitat on
California’s Tejon Ranch is a “true conservation
victory.”
by Graham Chisholm,
Jul 16, 2008
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The Tejon Ranch agreement, which will allow a housing
development to be build in the midst of rare condor critical
habitat, is a disaster for the endangered birds, according to Noel
Snyder and David Clendenen.
by Noel Snyder and David Clendenen,
Jun 23, 2008