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Photographer Stephen Trimble offers suggestions for how
citizens and communities can reinvent their relationship with the
Western landscape.
by Stephen Trimble,
Jun 23, 2008
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Sometimes it seems that only the impact of a severe
drought can get Westerners to work together on water
issues
by Paul Larmer,
May 14, 2007
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The Verde River is one of Arizona’s last
free-flowing stream, but environmental and local activists fear an
ambitious planned pipeline, designed to bring groundwater to the
growing Prescott area, will end up sucking the river dry
by Tony Davis,
May 14, 2007
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In Brave New West: Morphing Moab at the Speed of Greed, Jim Stiles rips into the amenity-oriented tourist economy that has transformed his once-beloved Moab, but he offers little in the way of useful alternatives.
by Brian Kevin,
Apr 16, 2007
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Craig Childs lifts the rug of modern-day Phoenix, Ariz.,
to examine the remnants of the civilization that preceded it
– the Hohokam people, who also built a great city in the
middle of the desert, and flourished until the day they ran out of
water.
by Craig Childs,
Apr 16, 2007
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Thirsty Santa Fe, N.M., considers an innovative law
requiring all new buildings to install rainwater-harvesting
systems.
by Cristina Opdahl,
Apr 02, 2007
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Linda Hasselstrom muses sadly over the closing of a
118-year-old drugstore in downtown Cheyenne, Wyo.
by Linda Hasselstrom,
Mar 19, 2007
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Two trends are almost as dangerous as the idea of directly
selling off the public lands: land transfers done in the name of
economic development, and the outsourcing of jobs in the federal
land-management agencies.
by John Freemuth,
Sep 18, 2006
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As scientists clash over the Preble’s meadow jumping
mouse's biological categorization, the complexity of endangered
species science steps into the light
by Christie Aschwanden,
Aug 07, 2006
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The revised edition of Peter Decker’s Old Fences,
New Neighbors examines the changes that population growth has
brought to remote Ouray County in western Colorado
by Steve Weinberg,
Jun 12, 2006
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