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Time to reform and repair
Paul Larmer reminds us that it will take more than a single environmental hero – like Tim DeChristopher, who cleverly sabotaged a BLM energy-lease auction – to reform the agency.
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A tale of heartbreakin' and asskickin'
Walt Gasson deeply loved a mule, but that mule tragically broke his heart – not to mention several of his bones.
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Trashing the earth, and the truth
Hal Herring relates the ugly story of how the Bush administration used its influence to try to kill a story about the impacts of energy development.
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As Interior Turns
During the last eight years, Bush’s Interior Department has been embroiled in enough corruption, sex and scandal to fuel several soap operas.
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The sick and tired West
The EPA under George Bush has put the health of Westerners at risk in order to make life easier for big industry.
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Nonprofitable times
Many conservation groups are feeling the pinch.
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Results for keyword: drought
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The Tamarisk Hunter
by Paolo Bacigalupi Jul 16, 2008 03:20 PMIn the desert Southwest of 2030 Big Daddy Drought runs the show, California claims all the water, and a water tick named Lolo ekes out a rugged living removing tamarisk.
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Shifting sands in Navajoland
by Michelle Nijhuis Jun 23, 2008 12:00 PMOn the drought-stricken Navajo Nation, scientist Margaret Hiza Redsteer studies the movement of sand dunes.
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The West’s wacky weather
by Jonathan Thompson May 12, 2008 12:00 PMThe West’s weather is full of surprises this spring, with snowstorms, windstorms, rain and wildfires all happening at the same time.
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The mysticism of mud
by Ernest Atencio May 12, 2008 12:00 PMErnest Atencio ponders an exceptionally muddy Mud Season in New Mexico, and notes how readily most Westerners forget that we live in an arid landscape.
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Two weeks in the West
by Jonathan Thompson Mar 03, 2008 01:00 PMQuagga 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.
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Planning for uncertainty
by Paul Larmer Feb 04, 2008 01:00 PMA Phoenix symposium on dealing with drought and global warming echoes the larger uncertainties facing public-land and national park managers throughout the West.
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Two weeks in the West
by Jonathan Thompson Dec 10, 2007 01:00 PMTwo 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.
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Two weeks in the West
by Ray Ring Nov 26, 2007 01:00 PMRecent 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.
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Western water is petering out
by Pete Letheby Nov 19, 2007 01:00 PMPete Letheby says the West is headed for a hotter and drier future, and this time, as farmer Gerald Spangler warns him, we’re running out of groundwater.
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Two weeks in the West
by Christine Hoekinga Nov 12, 2007 01:00 PMA look at the recent California wildfires details how much they’ve cost so far and how many acres were burned, especially in the expanding wildland-urban interface.
