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  • Environmentalists may have to take what they can get

    Environmentalists may have to take what they can get

    Obama isn't the fierce environmental leader many hoped for, but some good things are happening despite right-wing opposition and the ongoing recession.

    by Paul Larmer, Dec 12, 2011
  • Tribes use land conservancies to reclaim ancestral grounds

    Tribes use land conservancies to reclaim ancestral grounds

    The Kumeyaay Indians of Southern California are among the tribes using new strategies to reclaim rights to their lands.

    by Pattie Logan, Sep 08, 2011
  • INNOVATE, Part II

    INNOVATE, Part II

    Westerners have a knack for new and innovative thinking: Green detective, Healthcare for the hard up, Developing to stop development, Low carbon brews and more.

    by Jodi Peterson, Ray Ring, Terray Sylvester, Jonathan Thompson, , Mar 11, 2009

  • Write-off on the Range

    In Montana’s Madison County, Reid Rosenthal uses conservation easements to help the land — and make his investors rich

    by Ray Ring, May 30, 2005

  • Reid Rosenthal Responds

    Reid Rosenthal responds to HCN's story on conservation easements.

    by Reid Rosenthal, May 30, 2005

  • Congress looks to reform a system with no steering wheel

    A proposal to overhaul the tax rules around conservation easements has private-land conservationists worried, but recent financial scandals show the need for some reform

    by Ray Ring, May 30, 2005

  • As threats loom, conservation dollars disappear

    With the Land and Water Conservation Fund at a 10-year low and Western politicians trying to sell off the public lands, conserving open space requires the kind of creative solution that helped saved Colorado’s Beaver Brook watershed

    by Jodi Peterson, May 02, 2005

  • Timber companies borrow a tool from environmentalists

    In Idaho’s Panhandle region, the Potlatch Corp. is negotiating conservation easements on as much as 600,000 acres of forest, but not all conservationists are thrilled at the prospect

    by Mark Matthews, Sep 29, 2003
 

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