Personal tools
You are here: home
 
 

Results for keyword: land swaps

  • Audubon feathers fly in Arizona

    Audubon feathers fly in Arizona

    A controversial proposed land swap reveals the growing rift between Maricopa Audubon and a new and wealthier rival -- Audubon Arizona.

  • 'Leave no trace' art

    'Leave no trace' art

    A profile of HCN reader and artist Levi Jackson

  • Of politics and the river

    The last free-flowing river in the desert Southwest, Arizona’s San Pedro, is threatened by an expanding Fort Huachuca and a controversial congressman

  • Is the great federal land debate over

    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.

  • Eastern Sierra counties seek sustainable growth

    A land-exchange plan especially designed for California’s Eastern Sierra could help prevent development controversies such as the current one over the proposed Whitney Portal project near scenic Lone Pine

  • Developer blocks trail to a famous 'fourteener'

    Texas developer Rusty Nichols has barred public access to Wilson Peak, a Colorado "fourteener" popular with climbers

  • Rock jocks fight a mining company

    Resolution Copper Company is trying to obtain a land swap in order to mine at Arizona’s Oak Flat campground, a popular rock-climbing spot

  • Arizona land swap dogged by questions

    Critics say the Yavapai Ranch Land Exchange in Arizona is a sweetheart deal between developer Fred Ruskin and the Forest Service

  • Phelps Dodge looks to revive mining in the Copper State

    Phelps Dodge wants to open a big copper mine near Safford, Ariz., but some critics say that the company’s planned land swap is a rip-off, and that the mine may have harmful environmental impacts

Special coverage
  1. Charles Bowden on The War Next Door | On the U.S.-Mexico border, the corrupt and futile ...
  2. It's the population, stupid? | Some Westerners want to blame our environmental wo...
  3. No ESA for sage grouse | Feds say iconic bird needs protection, but won't g...
  4. Three cheers | Here's to an anonymous donor, Target and 11 scient...
  5. Shooting bullets, not blanks | A tremendous posterity, and firearms in National P...
  1. Charles Bowden on The War Next Door | On the U.S.-Mexico border, the corrupt and futile ...
  2. Thank you, Utah, for leading the way | Utah's Legislature has brilliant plans to cut educ...
  3. Skeletons in the closet | When the media reported that Everett Ruess' bones ...
  4. Mobile Nation | Every winter in Quartzsite, Ariz., tens of thousan...
  5. Water fallout | A nuclear power plant proposed for Green River, Ut...

JOIN THE High CountryEmail Commons

Award-winning content delivered weekly.

RSS FEEDS

Keep in touch! Find us on Facebook & Twitter
 
© 2010 High Country News, all rights reserved. | privacy policy | powered by Plone | site by Groundwire and Web Collective | design by our very own Ryan Foster