http://www.hcn.org These are the search results for the query, showing results 1 to 12. http://www.hcn.org/articles/audio-high-country-views-episode-4 Judith Lewis, Jonathan Thompson and Cally Carswell talk mining politics. Plus, an audio postcard from a California ghost town inhabited by pikas. No publisher Cally Carswell pika climate change High Country Views hardrock mining Nevada politics endangered species podcast Bodie gold mining 2010-05-06T19:21:06Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/41.5/innovate-part-ii Westerners have a knack for new and innovative thinking: Green detective, Healthcare for the hard up, Developing to stop development, Low carbon brews and more. No publisher Jodi Peterson, Ray Ring, Terray Sylvester, Jonathan Thompson, land trusts ranchers Idaho Conservation League Thornton Ranch recycling high school students New Belgium Brewing open space mercury emissions Klamath River Early College of the Redwoods investigative journalism mercury pollution Jeff Lebesch news Web sites Knight Foundation News Callenge Santa Fe growth Sherri Rice affordable healthcare Geneva Wiki Bill Bullard, R-CALF www.spot.us college preparation Jenn Orgolini David Cohn green housing developments sustainability environmental activists Access to Healthcare Network gold mining Ted Harrison reporters Commonweal Conservancy environmental activists Galisteo Basin Preserve uninsured Americans corporate meatpackers Kim Jordan education Justin Hayes cattlemen’s groups contaminated fish big ag Native American schools green companies Yurok Reservation country of origin labeling 2010-02-05T09:16:51Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/wotr/14130 Steve Voynick praises Elko, Nevada, for getting ready for the inevitable gold-mining bust. No publisher Steve Voynick gold mining mining gold gold mining bust 2010-02-05T09:28:53Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/articles/17044 The owners of a 1938 mining claim in the Uncompaghre wilderness plan to start digging for gold. No publisher Morgan Heim Intrusions wilderness mining gold mining Forest Service 1872 Mining Act 2010-02-05T09:27:32Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/311/15942 Richard Pombo wants new offshore drilling; Nevada gold mines spew mercury across West; grazing fees don’t pay for program; judge slams Forest Service over refusal to look at environmental impacts of fire retardant No publisher Matt Jenkins Richard Pombo offshore drilling drilling royalties gold mining mercury Nevada mining Idaho Department of Environmental Quality Salmon Falls Creek Reservoir water pollution grazing fees public lands grazing Government Accountability Office Fore 2010-02-05T08:31:55Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/287/15133 The same Western voters who re-elected President George W. Bush and his anti-environmental record also voted for environmental ballot measures and green-leaning candidates. No publisher Greg Hanscom Elections 2004 election results George W. Bush John Kerry Republicans Democrats environmentalists Utah Legislature Denny Rehberg Brain Schweitzer Judy Martz Montana I-147 cyanide heap-leach mining gold mining open-pit mining Canyon Resources Corp. Ju 2010-02-05T09:22:01Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/323/16328 A bill introduced by Colorado Rep. John Salazar could make it easier for environmental groups and others to clean up pollution at thousands of orphaned hardrock mines No publisher Sarah Gilman Pollution Mining pollution hardrock mining gold mining silver mining mine reclamation abandoned mines John Salazar mine cleanup Clean Water Act Animas River Stakeholders mining industry environmental groups groundwater water pollution acid mine draina 2011-11-11T23:18:34Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/321/16269 Amateur gold prospectors are invading the West’s publicly owned streams, and environmentalists say the hobby’s popularity threatens fish and the environment No publisher Matthew Preusch Forests Forest Service Fish Salmon Gold Prospecting gold mining gold panning amateur miners hobby mining Siskiyou Mountains Siskiyou Regional Education Project Siskiyou Project Barbara Ullian salmon stream ecology environmental damage dredging redds water turbidity 2011-11-10T23:55:21Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/321/16266 Mining company allowed to dump waste into Alaskan lake; Colorado split-estate bill unravels; Arizona’s Oak Flat may become a copper mine No publisher Jodi Peterson Mining waste Army Corps of Engineers Alaska Coeur Clean Water Act mining pollution gold mining Lower Slate Lake Alaska water pollution split-estate bill Kathleen Curry energy industry property rights landowners oil and gas drilling coalbed 2011-11-10T23:44:29Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/303/15686 Utah’s Great Salt Lake is loaded with mercury, and scientists are trying to figure out whether Nevada’s gold mines are part of the problem No publisher Patrick Farrell Mining Gold Pollution Great Salt Lake mercury methylmercury pollution toxins eared grebes brine shrimp gold mining Environmental Protection Agency David Jones waste management Nevada Division of Environmental Protection Barrick Goldstrike Mine Placer Dome Cortez 2012-04-09T19:10:38Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/298/15506 A Canadian mining company, the Fremont Gold Corporation, plans to dig 200 test pits for a possible mining operation five miles from the South Pass National Historic Landmark in Wyoming, where wagon trains once traveled No publisher Brodie Farquhar Western History Gold South Pass National Historic Landmark Wyoming Western history wagon trains Oregon Trail California Trail Mormon Trail Pony Express gold mining Fremont Gold Corporation Tom Bell Claudia Nissley historic preservation historic sites mining test 2012-03-30T19:19:21Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/301/15612 Army Corps of Engineers will have to release water from Columbia and Snake river dams to help salmon; Montana mining ban is not a property "taking"; kinks in plan to drill for natural gas at Colorado nuclear site. No publisher Laura Paskus Judge James Redden Army Corps of Engineers dams Columbia River Snake River salmon endangered fish Endangered Species Act NOAA Bureau of Reclamation steelhead Montana mining ban cyanide heap leach mining gold mining property takings Canyon R 2011-05-16T23:18:55Z News Article