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  • How the gray wolf lost its endangered status -- and how enviros helped

    How the gray wolf lost its endangered status -- and how enviros helped

    A strategic miscalculation by environmental groups helped spur the delisting of gray wolves in Montana and Idaho.

  • The cost of righteousness

    The cost of righteousness

    Has some environmentalists' refusal to compromise helped cause the delisting of wolves in Montana and Idaho?

  • Conservation for the adrenaline crowd

    Can the Red Bull generation of outdoor recreationists get serious about saving the planet?

  • The West dissected

    The West dissected

    The Environmental Working Group and other organizations have released detailed studies of the West along the lines of Colorado College’s State of the Rockies Report Card. Also: The economic stimulus package has money for Western national parks and monuments.

  • Nonprofits reap the profits

    Nonprofits reap the profits

    Christine MacDonald takes on the unscrupulous executives who run big environmental groups in Green, Inc.: An Environmental Insider Reveals How a Good Cause Has Gone Bad.

  • Environmentalists must learn to compromise

    Environmentalists must learn to compromise

    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.

  • Conservation groups come and go. Why?

    Pat Munday decries the “professionalization” of environmental groups.

  • Cutting trees to save the forest

    Chris Kelly’s environmental group, The Conservation Fund, is carefully logging its own redwood trees in order to save forests and salmon in Northern California.

  • Dear friends

    HCN board meeting in Missoula, Mont.; visitors; correction

  • Good Samaritan bill could clean up old mines

    A bill introduced by Colorado Rep. John Salazar could make it easier for environmental groups and others to clean up pollution at thousands of orphaned hardrock mines

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