The Forest Service will hold hearings on management proposals for the primitive areas that border Idaho’s Salmon River, a chunk of land that could become one of the largest wilderness areas in the lower 48 states. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/5.21/download-entire-issue
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N. Great Plains report: preview of disaster?
Coal development in the Northern Great Plains already seems to be progressing at a level higher than anticipated when the Northern Great Plains Resource Program completed its draft interim report last fall. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/7.1/download-entire-issue
Farmers to try do-it-yourself sediment clean-up
In Idaho, the Environmental Protection Agency is giving farmers a shot at regulating themselves and voluntarily applying techniques to manage soil erosion. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/12.1/download-entire-issue
More than English
At a Denver school, refugees learn American ways as well as language
States rev up ORV rules
Western legislation aims to curb off-roading problems
The return of Colorado’s missing lynx
Cat’s saga highlights the challenges wandering wildlife face in a growing West
As Interior Turns
An eight-year soap opera in which federal officials screwed the environment, the taxpayers, and each other.
(Un)clearing the air
Westerners will breathe the legacy of Bush’s BLM
Western wish list for Obama
The hopes and worries of 11 key Westerners
Dodged bullets
How the Bush administration shot — and missed — on some Western issues
Up in smoke
Obama administration will inherit a beleaguered Forest Service
Not so dead on arrival
The unlikely success of the Clinton Roadless Rule
Nonprofitable times
Conservation groups hunker down for the economic crisis.
Passing gas
Western states struggle to capture methane emissions from coal mines
Liquid assets
‘Water banks’ help cities weather drought
Power to the first people
Native Americans are poised to swing some Western battleground states
The great giveaway
Utah BLM swings the door wide for ATVs and energy development
Acidifying oceans
James Zachos fishes around his desk and pulls out a plastic bag filled with chunks of deep-sea sediments. The sediments, wrested from the South Atlantic in 2003, are 55.5 million years old and ‘deep red in color because they are almost entirely clay. Missing is the abundance of shelly residue that gives abyssal sediments their typically […]