http://www.hcn.org These are the search results for the query, showing results 1 to 15. http://www.hcn.org/issues/44.9/conservation-agreements-try-to-head-off-endangered-species-listings Candidate conservation agreements try to keep rare species, like Colorado's Gunnison sage grouse, off the endangered species list, or at least healthy enough to lessen the restrictions that come with listing. No publisher Joshua Zaffos BLM WildEarth Guardians ranchers private land conservation species recovery critical habitat farmers Center for Biological Diversity U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service dunes sagebrush lizard rare birds greater sage grouse Endangered Species Act Candidate conservation agreements imperiled species candidate conservation agreements with assurances southern Idaho ground squirrel Gunnison sage grouse sage grouse leks 2012-06-01T14:44:32Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/44.5/a-colorado-newspaperman-fights-for-his-valleys-water Bob Rawlings, publisher of the Pueblo Chieftain, has battled for decades to bring water to southeastern Colorado and, once it's there, to keep it no matter what. No publisher Matt Jenkins irrigation Colorado water politics farmers Bob Rawlings water supply Super Ditch water rights Pueblo Chieftain Colorado history water diversions Fryingpan-Arkansas project 2012-03-26T14:44:44Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/44.1/residents-of-montanas-high-plains-are-angry-but-not-at-the-real-threats Though climate change and the economy are the issues threatening their livelihoods, many of the High Plains people are angry at almost everything else. No publisher Joe Wilkins Tea Party farmers High Plains climate change 1980s farm crisis right wing politics global warming rural life Joe Wilkins water supply political anger drought eastern Montana agriculture invasive plants Republicans 2012-02-03T14:16:35Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/wotr/fixing-what-aint-broken-in-foggy-bottom The U.S. House of Representatives is wasting its time passing unnecessary and absurd laws, but at least that’s helping to keep it out of trouble. No publisher Ed Quillen U.S. House of Representations light bulb efficiency farmers In God We Trust national mottos unnecessary laws black helicopters agricultural pollution stupid legislation political pandering politicians incandescent light bulbs lobbyists Light Bulb Choice Protection Act right wing politicians Marlite Mining Prohibition Act oil shale Western Republican representatives Farm Dust Regulation Act Lisa Jackson EPA 2012-01-11T15:15:11Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/wotr/resolutions-for-living-smarter-in-2012 We could all live healthier, more fulfilling and sustainable lives if we would try to do more with less. No publisher Linda Hasselstrom frugality car maintenance thrift stores barter system ranchers farmers organic produce climate change recycling doing without local foods New Year’s resolutions grass-fed meat environmental awareness global warming healthy eating sustainable living secondhand clothing lifestyle changes 2012-01-11T15:15:48Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/43.21/land-trusts-thrive-despite-and-because-of-the-great-recession The recession has afforded a unique opportunity for land trusts to protect more of the West’s private open land through direct acquisitions and, increasingly, conservation easements. No publisher Jon Christensen, Jenny Rempel and Judee Burr Blackfoot Challenge ranchers farmers conservation easements demographics Land trusts housing development recession sprawl and development open lands protection public-private land conservation land preservation real estate bust working landscapes 2011-12-14T15:38:48Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/43.17/management-by-mega-fire It’s a basic fact of Western life that fire rarely behaves the way we want it to. No publisher Paul Larmer Western land management farmers rural life climate change Western wildfires Forest Service forest fires drought 2011-10-13T18:21:39Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/wotr/how-can-woofers-stay-on-the-farm Young people are eager to serve as unpaid interns on organic farms, but translating their dreams into a real, self-supporting lifestyle is proving harder. No publisher Dev Carey wwoof.org farmers rural life organic farms Farm interns sustainable lifestyles sustainability straw-bale building education agriculture 2011-10-14T15:37:59Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/wotr/not-all-government-programs-need-cutting The Conservation Reserve Program has encouraged millions of acres of idled farmland to be used as wildlife habitat, but now it may be plowed under by a budget-cutting Congress. No publisher Stephanie Paige Ogburn sage grouse National Wildlife Federation unplowed land Congress farmers fallowed land hunters 2012 Farm Bill soil erosion fishermen budget cuts Conservation Reserve Program Ducks Unlimited prairie chicken 2011-10-11T17:57:08Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/43.15/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. No publisher Stephanie Paige Ogburn Conservation Reserve Program wildlife habitat farm bill farmers land conservation Conservation Stewardship Program budget cuts ranching livestock grazing 2011-09-21T15:19:42Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/42.12/turning-back-the-tide A volunteer naturalist describes the unique beauty -- and fragility -- of California's Elkhorn Slough Reserve. No publisher John Moir poets farmers Jane Kenyon Donald Hall Wendell Berry essays Imagination in Place nonfiction 2010-07-14T23:46:29Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/42.12/an-example-and-an-antidote In Imagination in Place, his new collection of essays, writer/farmer/poet Wendell Berry shares some of his honest wisdom and sharp-eyed observations. No publisher Kurt Caswell poets Jane Kenyon farmers Imagination in Place Wendell Berry essays Donald Hall nonfiction 2010-07-13T20:54:46Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/41.16/township-13-south-rage-92-west-section-35 A writer looks into the history of the people who lived on the Colorado mesa she now calls home. No publisher Michelle Nijhuis Colorado farmers Western history Elizabeth Foote Foote Fields family life Paonia Western Slope 2010-02-05T09:03:48Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/41.8/from-grass-to-grains The local food growers in Oregon’s Southern Willamette Valley Bean and Grain Project see a unique opportunity in today’s economic crisis. No publisher Carla A. Wise farmers local foods locavores Southern Willamette Valley Bean and Grain Project slow food movement organic food 2010-02-05T09:04:02Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/wotr/14260 Tim Holt says small farmers near Portland, Ore., are finding their market in the city No publisher Tim Holt farming farmers 2010-02-05T09:29:20Z News Article