Results for keyword: drought
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How to heat-proof your garden
In a spring so hot and dry that it’s breaking records, backyard gardeners might considering using edible living mulch to protect the soil.
by Ari LeVaux, Mar 29, 2012 -
Two degrees warmer and rising: A review of A Great Aridness
Books about climate change tend to be grim reading, but William deBuys' love for the American Southwest makes his new nonfiction book A Great Aridness beautiful as well as disturbing.
by Laura Paskus, Mar 04, 2012 -
Residents of Montana's High Plains are angry - but not at the real threats
Though climate change and the economy are the issues threatening their livelihoods, many of the High Plains people are angry at almost everything else.
by Joe Wilkins, Feb 02, 2012 -
A fall crop of visitors
High Country News gets lots of visitors; Paolo Bacigalupi's HCN sci-fi story "The Tamarisk Hunter" is in a new anthology; Utne Reader honors visionaries, including some of HCN's friends.
by Jodi Peterson, Nov 10, 2011 -
Management by mega-fire
It’s a basic fact of Western life that fire rarely behaves the way we want it to.
by Paul Larmer, Oct 16, 2011 -
Good policy and good intentions won't stop big wildfires
Federal agencies have made strides in reducing fire danger in the West's forests, but many factors hinder their efforts
by Jodi Peterson, Oct 16, 2011 -
Great hope, great fear
The threat of climate change is terrifying, especially for people who fear for their children's future, but there is still hope, if we start working together.
by Auden Schendler, Aug 24, 2011 -
Re-watering Nevada's dying Walker Lake
Walker Lake in northwestern Nevada has been dying for years, but locals and government officials are determined to restore it.
by Gordon Gregory, Aug 09, 2011 -
Is wildfire always a question of when?
An innkeeper remembers the fires that roared through her beloved Chiricahua Mountains.
by Susan Nunn, Jul 20, 2011 -
The gift of runoff in a wet season
After too many recent dry years, residents of the Rocky Mountains are relishing the music of running water.
by Allen Best, Jul 20, 2011
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