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Video: Still howling wolf
The passionate and complicated feelings people have about living with wolves in the Northern Rockies.
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A good idea – if you can get away with it
Rainwater harvesting is against the law in many Western states, but folks in Utah, Colorado and Washington want to change that.
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What I will say to Americans once I am elected president
President Jim Stiles would tell the nation that it is past time we started living within our means – both economically and environmentally.
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The fruits of their labor
In Delta County, Colorado, a pilot program sent prisoners to work on three farms during the summer of 2008.
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Battleground!
HCN surveys the swingin' Western political landscape with this interactive map.
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Back to the future
A long time ago, the earth warmed considerably; now, scientists study fossils to find out what happened – and what it might mean for us today.
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Field Day
In some Western states, including Colorado, prison inmates are taking the place of immigrant farmworkers.
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Alexandra Fuller: A fine line between protest and profession
Author Alexandra Fuller talks about the impacts of oil drilling on her chosen home of Wyoming.
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The street hierarchy
Aaron Gilbreath mulls the very large difference between being a pedestrian in ultra-cool Portland, Ore., and in sprawling Phoenix, Ariz.
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Results for keyword: energy
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Solar flip-flops and fish stories
by Ray Ring Jul 18, 2008 09:25 AMBLM flip-flops on solar and expedites oil and gas; Western Governors’ Association talks about energy; more fossil fuel risks; good (and bad) salmon news.
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An ancient place to wonder about our survival
by Andy Gulliford Jul 16, 2008 03:50 PMAndy Gulliford delights in the vast Canyon of the Ancients National Monument-- a living museum subject to increased gas drilling.
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When you’re rich, you can dream
by Bill Sniffin May 19, 2008 12:00 PMBill Sniffin is pleased that Wyoming is spending its energy earnings wisely, but he believes that even more could be done with the money before the boom’s over.
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Boom! Boom!
by Francisco Tharp Jul 16, 2008 03:45 PMAn energy boom of unprecedented proportions is transforming western Colorado towns like Rifle, which just recently recovered from the last big energy boom – and a catastrophic bust.
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Guarding Galisteo
by Francisco Tharp Mar 14, 2008 01:00 PMPushing the limits of local control over energy companies
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A bad idea hits the gas pumps
by Dustin Heron Urban Feb 04, 2008 01:00 PMDustin Heron Urban has declared war on the little black stickers at gas stations that announce the availability of ethanol.
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A political speech the West needs to hear
by Ray Ring Jul 16, 2008 03:39 PMHigh Country News imagines – and delivers – the kind of speech about our energy future that the West needs to hear from its next president.
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Wyoming hits a green roadblock
by Bill Sniffin Jan 21, 2008 01:00 PMBill Sniffin says the state called the “Saudi Arabia of coal” may find its product less desirable in the face of global warming.
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An octopus wants to eat the West
by Pepper Trail Jul 16, 2008 03:53 PMPepper Trail says a proposed energy corridor for the region will chew up huge amounts of public and private land: Comments are due by Feb. 14.
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You can’t stop nature
by Pepper Trail Dec 10, 2007 01:00 PMPepper Trail warns us that we continue to tinker with nature at our peril.
