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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,
Jul 16, 2008
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Western real estate slump hits suburbs, but developers
keep on developing; Marijuana McMansions; copper booming; Logan,
Utah, rejects dirty power; Tri-State puts off two coal power
plants; animals killed by Wildlife Services
by Jonathan Thompson,
Apr 30, 2007
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In Brave New West: Morphing Moab at the Speed of
Greed, Jim Stiles rips into the amenity-oriented tourist
economy that has transformed his once-beloved Moab, but he offers
little in the way of useful alternatives.
by Brian Kevin,
Jul 16, 2008
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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,
Jul 16, 2008
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Thirsty Santa Fe, N.M., considers an innovative law
requiring all new buildings to install rainwater-harvesting
systems.
by Cristina Opdahl,
Jul 16, 2008
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Linda Hasselstrom muses sadly over the closing of a
118-year-old drugstore in downtown Cheyenne, Wyo.
by Linda Hasselstrom,
Mar 19, 2007
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In Idaho and Wyoming, old eminent domain laws allow
private entities to condemn landowners’ property – as
Peter and Judy Riede discovered when J.R. Simplot Co. announced
plans to expand its phosphate mine and build a road across their
ranch.
by Rebecca Huntington,
Feb 05, 2007
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Two trends are almost as dangerous as the idea of directly
selling off the public lands: land transfers done in the name of
economic development, and the outsourcing of jobs in the federal
land-management agencies.
by John Freemuth,
Sep 18, 2006
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A new breed of land trusts seeks not merely to preserve
undeveloped landscape, but to keep it in agricultural use –
particularly in organic farming.
by Seth Zuckerman,
Sep 18, 2006
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As scientists clash over the Preble’s meadow jumping
mouse's biological categorization, the complexity of endangered
species science steps into the light
by Christie Aschwanden,
Aug 07, 2006
