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The persistence of bigotry, Western-style
A father of a biracial child listens to the casually racist jokes of his rural Colorado neighbors.
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Digging deep
An innovative local program helps Hispanic heroin addicts recover by renewing their ties to the land.
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Real work
The joys – and hardships – of outdoor physical work take a toll.
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How to survive the lean times
Her brush with homelessness gives Jane Goetze the background to offer some wry advice.
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A chance to do it right in the West
Hoping for a Western Interior secretary who practices the politics of collaboration.
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The missing puzzle piece
In southwestern Colorado’s Crow Canyon, archaeologists are working with Native Americans to solve the historical mysteries of the Four Corners area.
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Weekend Westerner
Arthur Kruse rides the range – outside of Munich, Germany.
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Ultimate solution?
Southern California wants to use desalination to increase its water supply, but critics think the idea needs to be taken with a grain of salt.
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Burning issues
Controversial forestry scientist Tom Bonnicksen believes increased logging is necessary to fight global warming.
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Results for keyword: environmental
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Bush brings more green into the green movement
by Ray Ring Jul 16, 2008 03:45 PMThe Bush administration has been good for environmental groups, at least when it comes to money and membership numbers.
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High Noon for Habitat
by Tony Davis Feb 20, 2006 01:00 PMIn Riverside County, Calif., the conflict between the Endangered Species Act’s critical habitat rule and the West’s booming, sprawling, growth-driven economy comes to a head
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Buying ecological leverage
by Paul Larmer Aug 02, 2004 12:00 PMHigh Country News interviews Bill Hedden of the Grand Canyon Trust about northern Arizona’s Kane and Two Mile ranches, which the Trust and the Conservation Fund have an exclusive option to purchase
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Of global warming and White House elephants
by Jon Margolis Jul 19, 2004 12:00 PMThe Bush administration needs to start dealing with global climate change, and California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger may help to point the way
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Die, baby harp seal! It's time for environmentalism to get ugly
by Lydia Millet Apr 12, 2004 12:00 PMEnvironmental groups’ calendar portrayals of the beleaguered harp seal are too pretty and too hackneyed to convince humans that the race must see beyond its own wants if it is to hold off the end of nature
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The environment's 'most durable foe'
by Joshua Zaffos Apr 12, 2004 12:00 PMHistorian Steven C. Schulte’s new book, Wayne Aspinall and the Shaping of the American West, portrays the chair of the House Interior Committee and the environmental movement’s "most durable foe" as a fair but rigid representative who, surprisingly, joc
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Dear friends
by Greg Hanscom, Betsy Marston Apr 12, 2004 12:00 PMAvalanches in Telluride, heat wave in Paonia; congratulations to Ed and Betsy Marston for John Wade Award; Ken Sleight gets Lifetime Achievement Award at 22nd Annual Public Interest Environmental Law Conference in Eugene; Betsy Loyless, keynoter at the co
