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Protecting wildlife corridors remains more theory than practice

There's a growing understanding of the scientific importance of wildlife migration corridors, but protecting them is a huge political challenge.

by Mary Ellen Hannibal, Dec 30, 2011
Stitching habitat together across public and private lands

Migrating animals can't read "no trespassing" signs, so it’s up to human beings to try to find ways to connect wildlife corridors that crisscross public and privately owned lands.

by Cally Carswell, Dec 26, 2011
Farmland conservation program may be plowed under

The Conservation Reserve Program, which pays farmers to idle highly erodible cropland, is facing budget cuts and other challenges.

by Stephanie Paige Ogburn, Sep 20, 2011
Accidental Wilderness

Washington's Hanford Site and New Mexico's White Sands Missile Range both hold deadly nuclear contamination – along with unspoiled landscapes rich in wildlife.

by David Wolman, May 17, 2010
The Battle for the Verde

The 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

by Tony Davis, May 14, 2007
Of salvage logging and salvation

If we truly want to "salvage" our forests – and the rest of our environment – we need to think beyond salvage logging, and acknowledge that the value of dead trees cannot be measured in board-feet alone

by Pepper Trail, Dec 25, 2006
Cougar Management Guidelines

Cougar Management Guidelines collects current cougar research into a set of guidelines for managing these secretive and increasingly rare big cats

by Staff, Oct 31, 2005
Strange bedfellows make a grazing deal in Idaho

Anti-grazing activist Jon Marvel makes a deal with ranching magnate J.R. Simplot, allowing cattle to continue to graze on federal land in Idaho

by Ray Ring, Oct 03, 2005
Hope for the West's open lands

The Quivira Coalition is working hard to try to preserve the West’s remaining private ranchlands – but much more needs to be done to protect this invaluable land

by Paul Larmer, Sep 05, 2005
Industry walks a fuzzy line between preservation and extortion

EnCana Oil and Gas offers to pay for offsite mitigation in Wyoming in exchange for intensive drilling rights in the Jonah Field

by Whitney Royster, Aug 08, 2005