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The GOAT Blog
Save our gauges
Important USGS stream gauges imperiled by austerity
by Sarah Keller, May 17, 2013 -
The Range Blog
It's Endangered Species Day!
40 years on and the ESA continues to have growing pains
by Red Lodge, May 17, 2013 -
In the field with a Montana couple hunting wolves
Amid bitter controversy over allowing hunters and trappers to reduce wolf populations, a Montana couple is dedicated to their hunt.
by Neil LaRubbio, May 17, 2013 -
Heard around the West
Have a ponytail? Watch out for owls!
And more oddities from Heard Around the West
by Betsy Marston, May 16, 2013 -
The GOAT Blog
Wyoming's pile of coal
The story of the state's 10-billionth ton
by Marshall Swearingen, May 16, 2013 -
A lesson from a pig called Eddie
The author learns to eat meat responsibly
by Lori Bell, May 16, 2013 -
The GOAT Blog
The other Cannabis legalization story
Is victory finally within reach for hemp growers?
by Cally Carswell, May 15, 2013 -
Of sense and salinity: A swim in the Great Salt Lake
Open-water swimmers revive historical swimming routes in Utah's dead sea
by Kate Greene, May 15, 2013 -
The Range Blog
The danger of too much screentime, in and out of the woods
Stewardship demands boots on the ground, but will the next generation rise to the challenge?
by Red Lodge, May 14, 2013 -
It's time to see exactly how the sausage gets made
"Ag-gag" farm protection laws are the wrong way to go for the meat industry
by Ari LeVaux, May 14, 2013 -
The GOAT Blog
A win for Monsanto on GMO crops
A "Roundup" of news about genetically-modified crops and their apparently unstoppable rise.
by Jodi Peterson, May 14, 2013 -
The GOAT Blog
What's killing bees?
Apparently everything, according to a new federal study
by Emily Guerin, May 13, 2013 -
Reflected glory
A Pulitzer Prize for Lisa Song, former HCN intern; visitors come by our office; journalists and HCN contributors Debra Weyermann and Kathie Durbin have died.
by Jodi Peterson, May 13, 2013 -
Another water-short year in the Southwest is taking its toll
Generous spring snow storms were a momentary, if welcome, distraction from the region's real weather story: drought.
by Cally Carswell, May 13, 2013 -
How right-wing emigrants conquered North Idaho
Conservative transplants largely from California have taken over Kootenai County -- have they gone too far?
by Sierra Crane-Murdoch, May 13, 2013 -
A tireless documenter of Native America: A review of "Short Nights of the Shadow Catcher"
Timothy Egan on the life and work of photographer Edward Curtis
by Lee E. Cart, May 13, 2013 -
Other voices: the debate on wolf hunting from both sides
Perspectives on wolf hunting from conservationists and hunt proponents.
by Staff, May 13, 2013 -
The Latest: Pumping Arizona's rivers dry?
The state water board gives the go-ahead to a groundwater pumping project that could harm the San Pedro River
by Emily Guerin, May 13, 2013 -
The artist and his patron: A review of "The Inventor and the Tycoon"
Edward Ball unravels the strange partnership between railroad tycoon Leland Stanford and photographer Eadweard Muybridge
by Brittany Shoot, May 13, 2013 -
BLM teams with researchers to protect midget faded rattlesnake
Biologists and federal officials hope to direct booming oil, gas and wind development away from the rare reptile in southwest Wyoming and northwest Colorado
by Marian Lyman Kirst, May 13, 2013






