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  • On the ballot: Will Californians vote to build an off-ramp from the oil highway?

    California’s Proposition 87 would tax oil produced in the state to raise money for the development of alternative fuels

    by Matt Jenkins, Oct 16, 2006

  • Clinton-era roadless rule is back... for now

    A federal judge has reinstated President Clinton’s roadless rule protecting forests in the Lower 48 states, but the decision seems to have only confused the issue of forest management and is likely to end up back in court

    by Evan Tea, Oct 16, 2006

  • Burning money

    Wildfire financial data

    by Staff, Oct 16, 2006

  • Wildland acres burned

    Western wildland acres burned

    by Staff, Oct 16, 2006

  • Mother Nature rides an ATV

    Factory Butte closed to ORVs

    by Staff, Oct 16, 2006

  • One dam down; four in limbo

    Oregon’s Chiloquin dam to come down

    by Staff, Oct 16, 2006

  • BLM busted for booting whistleblower

    BLM ordered to pay whistleblower Earle Dixon

    by Staff, Oct 16, 2006

  • Will your favorite Forest Service campsite be closed down next summer?

    Forest Service may close campgrounds

    by Staff, Oct 16, 2006

  • Some 'canned' elk get uncanned

    Game elk escape in Idaho

    by Staff, Oct 16, 2006

  • Good work in Washington

    The Bush administration deserves credit for its "Water 2025" initiative, which provided grants that have helped the Deschutes River Conservancy and the Central Oregon Irrigation District begin restoring Oregon’s Deschutes River

    by Greg Hanscom, Oct 16, 2006

  • A River Once More

    In Oregon, a revolutionary community alliance is working to put water – and steelhead trout – back into the Deschutes River

    by Matt Jenkins, Oct 16, 2006

  • Heard around the West

    Bunker home for sale; Utah FastPass spins out; zinfandel loses in California; fear of snakes in Mapleton, Utah; Redi Ripe fruit stickers; fighting tamarisk in California

    by Betsy Marston, Oct 02, 2006

  • Our Green Mountain

    A writer recalls the adventures he had had in Quincy, Calif., 20 years ago, when he was the youthful editor of a small-town independent paper called the Green Mountain Gazette

    by Jaime O'Neill, Oct 02, 2006

  • Big yellow taxi — in Duke City

    Yellow Cab is anthropology professor Robert Leonard’s poetic account of his after-dark journeys as a cab driver in Albuquerque

    by N.P. Thompson, Oct 02, 2006

  • What's wrong with the EPA?

    David Schoenbrod explains why the nation’s environmental laws are not being properly implemented in Saving Our Environment From Washington: How Congress Grabs Power, Shirks Responsibility and Shortchanges the People

    by Laura Paskus, Oct 02, 2006

  • A tribal renaissance

    In Blood Struggle, law professor Charles Wilkinson gives an inspiring account of Indians’ political and legal struggles during the last 50 years

    by Emma Brown, Oct 02, 2006

  • Leave only footprints, and turn the darn phone off

    Cell phones have their uses, but they do not belong in the wilderness

    by Becky Lomax, Oct 02, 2006

  • The myth trafficker

    Keoki Skinner deals lemonade and information from his yellow fruit-stand van in the border communities of Douglas, Ariz., and Agua Prieta, Mexico

    by Michael Marizco, Oct 02, 2006

  • Sleepers

    Several magazines and newspapers provide good independent commentary on water in the West, but there is always room for more

    by Matt Jenkins, Oct 02, 2006

  • The wet Net

    John Orr created his "Coyote Gulch" blog to follow Denver-area politics and Colorado water issues

    by Matt Jenkins, Oct 02, 2006
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