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Time to reform and repair
Paul Larmer reminds us that it will take more than a single environmental hero – like Tim DeChristopher, who cleverly sabotaged a BLM energy-lease auction – to reform the agency.
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A tale of heartbreakin' and asskickin'
Walt Gasson deeply loved a mule, but that mule tragically broke his heart – not to mention several of his bones.
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Trashing the earth, and the truth
Hal Herring relates the ugly story of how the Bush administration used its influence to try to kill a story about the impacts of energy development.
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As Interior Turns
During the last eight years, Bush’s Interior Department has been embroiled in enough corruption, sex and scandal to fuel several soap operas.
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The sick and tired West
The EPA under George Bush has put the health of Westerners at risk in order to make life easier for big industry.
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Nonprofitable times
Many conservation groups are feeling the pinch.
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Is It or Isn’t It (Just Another Mouse)?
by Christie Aschwanden Jul 16, 2008 03:25 PMAs scientists clash over the Preble’s meadow jumping mouse's biological categorization, the complexity of endangered species science steps into the light
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Credo: The People’s West
by Stephen Trimble Jul 16, 2008 03:45 PMPhotographer Stephen Trimble offers suggestions for how citizens and communities can reinvent their relationship with the Western landscape.
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When the going gets tough, the tough collaborate
by Paul Larmer May 14, 2007 12:00 PMSometimes it seems that only the impact of a severe drought can get Westerners to work together on water issues
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The Battle for the Verde
by Tony Davis May 14, 2007 12:00 PMThe 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
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Phoenix Falling?
by Craig Childs Jul 16, 2008 03:31 PMCraig 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.
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Harvesting the sky
by Cristina Opdahl Jul 16, 2008 03:31 PMThirsty Santa Fe, N.M., considers an innovative law requiring all new buildings to install rainwater-harvesting systems.
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Picture a town that celebrates its old businesses
by Linda Hasselstrom Mar 19, 2007 01:00 PMLinda Hasselstrom muses sadly over the closing of a 118-year-old drugstore in downtown Cheyenne, Wyo.
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Is the great federal land debate over
by John Freemuth Sep 18, 2006 12:00 PMTwo 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.
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The noisy democracy of the West
by Steve Weinberg Jun 12, 2006 12:00 PMThe 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
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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
