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The persistence of bigotry, Western-style
A father of a biracial child listens to the casually racist jokes of his rural Colorado neighbors.
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Real work
The joys – and hardships – of outdoor physical work take a toll.
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How to survive the lean times
Her brush with homelessness gives Jane Goetze the background to offer some wry advice.
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Weekend Westerner
Arthur Kruse rides the range – outside of Munich, Germany.
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Ultimate solution?
Southern California wants to use desalination to increase its water supply, but critics think the idea needs to be taken with a grain of salt.
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Burning issues
Controversial forestry scientist Tom Bonnicksen believes increased logging is necessary to fight global warming.
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Liquid assets
California is enthusiastic about creating “water banks” to help the state’s cities weather future droughts.
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Results for keyword: wildfires
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Manufactured homes for the birds
by Joseph Sorrentino Jul 18, 2008 01:50 PMZoologist David Olson and his colleagues are trying to create artificial cacti to house the rare coastal cactus wren, whose cholla cactus habitat is being threatened by California’s recent wildfires.
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The West’s wacky weather
by Jonathan Thompson May 12, 2008 12:00 PMThe West’s weather is full of surprises this spring, with snowstorms, windstorms, rain and wildfires all happening at the same time.
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Seeds of change
by Eve Rickert Oct 15, 2007 12:00 PMLand managers working on post-fire restoration in Utah have to battle invasive cheatgrass in their efforts to bring back the native sagebrush.
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Nobody likes regulation, but look where we’re moving
by Tom Arrandale Oct 01, 2007 12:00 PMTom Arrandale says Americans are getting sick and tired of paying to save houses from forest fires when those houses are built – and rebuilt – right next to forests in fire-prone areas.
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West’s forests will never be the same
by Paul VanDevelder Sep 24, 2007 12:00 PMPaul VanDevelder warns that climate change could devastate the West’s forests, leaving nothing behind but parched grasslands.
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Two weeks in the West
by Jonathan Thompson Sep 17, 2007 12:00 PMHealth insurance – and the lack of it – in the West; Larry Craig, Burning Man, and parts of Montana go up in flames; Wyoming booms and house prices are up, but the kids are still leaving in droves; new Border Patrol duds debut.
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When smoke gets in your life
by Alan Kesselheim Aug 31, 2007 12:00 PMAlan Kesselheim misses the summers of the past, when Western skies were blue and clear and not blurred and choked with smoke and ash.
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The inevitable fires next time
by Rocky Barker Aug 31, 2007 12:00 PMRocky Barker warns us that the new West is a world of inevitable, long-lasting and increasing forest fires.
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Bonfire of the Superweeds
by Michelle Nijhuis Aug 20, 2007 12:00 PMIn Arizona’s Sonoran Desert, good intentions are responsible for the introduction of exotic buffelgrass – but all the good intentions in the world may not be enough to save the desert now that this invasive and fire-prone plant is spreading
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A Wyoming forest yearns to burn
by Bill Sniffin Aug 06, 2007 12:00 PMBill Sniffin warns that Wyoming’s Shoshone National Forest is ready to go up in flames.
