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Residents of Montana's High Plains are angry - but not at the real threats

Though climate change and the economy are the issues threatening their livelihoods, many of the High Plains people are angry at almost everything else.

by Joe Wilkins, Feb 03, 2012
When it comes to importing water, nothing seems too extreme

A new proposal to send Mississippi River water out West is both insane and entirely possible, given the outrageous water schemes of the past.

by Craig Rowe, Sep 29, 2011
Ice matters

We're not just losing our glaciers; we're unraveling the systems that sustain all life on earth.

by Tim Lydon, Jul 27, 2011
Federal budget deal slashes key community water funds

Federal budget cuts dry up the funding for crucial community water projects.

by Judith Lewis Mernit, May 01, 2011
Siltation expert: We need more dams

George Annandale, a siltation expert, says the West needs more dams to satisfy its thirst.

by Paul Larmer, Apr 17, 2011
California's Tangled Water Politics

Will there ever be enough water in California's Bay Delta to satisfy farmers, keep fish alive and quench the thirst of millions of people?

by Matt Jenkins, Dec 19, 2010
Death by a thousand wells

Unregulated domestic wells are straining water supplies in Washington’s Yakima Valley and throughout the West.

by Cally Carswell, Oct 19, 2009
A good idea – if you can get away with it

Rainwater harvesting is against the law in many Western states, but folks in Utah, Colorado and Washington want to change that.

by Peter Friederici, Oct 08, 2008
The mysticism of mud

Ernest Atencio ponders an exceptionally muddy Mud Season in New Mexico, and notes how readily most Westerners forget that we live in an arid landscape.

by Ernest Atencio, May 12, 2008
Planning for uncertainty

A Phoenix symposium on dealing with drought and global warming echoes the larger uncertainties facing public-land and national park managers throughout the West.

by Paul Larmer, Feb 04, 2008