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  • 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

  • Waterblogged

    Rick Spilsbury, a Western Shoshone Indian, writes bitingly and sometimes hilariously about Nevada’s water issues on his "noshootfoot" blog

    by Matt Jenkins, Oct 02, 2006

  • Online: No more talking heads

    Jennifer Napier-Pearce uses her own money to produce a Salt Lake City-based podcast called Inside Utah

    by Laura Paskus, Oct 02, 2006

  • Online: Web watchdog

    Dave Frazier started the online Boise Guardian in order to keep an eye on local government and rile his fellow citizens

    by Laura Paskus, Oct 02, 2006

  • More Radio Waves

    Independent radio series and specials cover community sustainability

    by Staff, Oct 02, 2006

  • Radio: Spice for the ears

    Hearing Voices, a collective of independent radio producers, is working to add spice to public broadcasting

    by Adam Burke, Oct 02, 2006
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