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In Dead Pool: Lake Powell, Global Warming, and the Future of Water in the West, James Lawrence Powell examines the impact of climate change on the West’s future.
by Kyle Boelte,
May 26, 2009
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As mandatory water conservation becomes more common in the West, many communities are asking residents to report water-wasters.
by Jonathan Parkinson,
May 21, 2009
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Environmentalists opposed to desalination plants are indulging in wishful thinking, because conservation is not enough to provide the arid West with water during a drought.
by Jonathan Parkinson,
Mar 31, 2009
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On the drought-stricken Navajo Nation, scientist Margaret
Hiza Redsteer studies the movement of sand dunes.
by Michelle Nijhuis,
Jun 23, 2008
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The West’s weather is full of surprises this spring,
with snowstorms, windstorms, rain and wildfires all happening at
the same time.
by Jonathan Thompson,
May 12, 2008
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Ernest Atencio ponders an exceptionally muddy Mud Season
in New Mexico, and notes how readily most Westerners forget that we
live in an arid landscape.
by Ernest Atencio,
May 12, 2008
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Quagga mussels hit the jackpot in Nevada; Lakes Mead and
Powell are in trouble; lots and lots and lots of snow – and a
few ambitious ski resorts; and Colorado is building a vegetated
overpass for wildlife on I-70.
by Jonathan Thompson,
Mar 03, 2008
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A Phoenix symposium on dealing with drought and global
warming echoes the larger uncertainties facing public-land and
national park managers throughout the West.
by Paul Larmer,
Feb 04, 2008
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Two weeks in the very arid West means dry ski slopes,
destructive wildfires, unending drought and unhappy bears; timber
mills are victims of housing collapse; costs of carbon dioxide and
its removal.
by Jonathan Thompson,
Dec 10, 2007
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Recent elections in the West show support for land-use
planning and “convergence politics”; hunting declines
in the West, but Satan keeps busy in Idaho, causing
divorces.
by Ray Ring,
Nov 26, 2007
