http://www.hcn.org These are the search results for the query, showing results 151 to 165. http://www.hcn.org/issues/270/14635 A visit to Arizona’s new Agua Fria National Monument – one of those designated by Clinton at the end of his presidency – points up the failure of the Bush administration to protect and preserve the public lands No publisher Paul Larmer Politics Elected Officials Agua Fria National Monument Phoenix Arizona Bill Clinton George W. Bush Bush environmental policy public lands San Rafael Swell Utah Roan Plateau Colorado Otero Mesa New Mexico oil and gas drilling Bush energy policy 2010-02-05T09:56:40Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/wotr/14613 The writer tells President Bush that some public lands are worth more as national monuments than energy producers No publisher Paul Larmer Oil and Gas 2010-02-05T09:41:30Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/268/14553 The increasing politicization of the courts is creating a hazardous landscape for conservationists, who need to diligently oppose anti-environmental judges No publisher Paul Larmer Judicial System Judicial system George W. Bush Judge Malcolm Marsh salmon federal judges judicial nominations roadless lands Yellowstone snowmobiles judge nominees Earthjustice Sierra Club 2010-02-05T09:56:10Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/267/14521 President Bush’s space initiative will most likely come to nothing, but it reminds us that we need to get our own planet in order before we explore the galaxy No publisher Paul Larmer Elected Officials Bush space initiative space travel environmentalism Earth election–year politics overpopulation over-consumption sustainability NASA Mars natural resources natural-resource management 2010-02-05T09:56:02Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/266/14492 The kind of democratic dialogue that creates viable wilderness proposals is impossible in the current wilderness of power politics No publisher Paul Larmer Wilderness Legislation Wilderness Wilderness Act Bureau of Land Management BLM Lynn Scarlett Rebecca Watson Interior Department oil and gas industry drilling Bush energy policy citizen activism 2010-02-05T09:55:53Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/263/14394 Los Alamos National Laboratory needs to be open with the public about the messes it has made, in order to ensure that the public health is protected No publisher Paul Larmer Weapons And Laboratories Los Alamos National Laboratory nuclear weapons hazardous waste cleanup nuclear laboratories Los Alamos lab toxic waste national security government secrecy atomic bomb 2010-02-05T09:55:20Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/261/14329 The West’s small towns have always been subject to boom-and-bust economies, and even when the coal mines close and the factories move overseas, new economic engines will likely take their place No publisher Paul Larmer Socio-Economics Coal mining rural economies socio-economics boom and bust globalization service economy outdoor gear manufacturing 2010-02-05T10:14:04Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/258/14237 Montana’s Flathead Valley shows how environmentalists can work together – even work with their opponents – to get things done in a climate hostile to conservation No publisher Paul Larmer Environmental Environmental groups John Stokes right-wing talk radio consensus and cooperation Flathead County Montana Advocacy Groups 2010-02-05T10:13:33Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/257/14194 Farewell, Radio HCN; and Farewell, radio staffers Adam Burke, Krissy Clark and the recently arrived Maria Schell No publisher Paul Larmer and Greg Hanscom High Country News Dear Friends Radio HCN 2010-02-05T10:13:22Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/257/14193 Those who thought the West’s nuclear role would wind down with the end of the Cold War are facing a brand-new nuclear age, one that is being created behind closed government doors where few questions are asked No publisher Paul Larmer Weapons And Laboratories Nuclear weapons bomb factories nuclear policy plutonium pit production The West’s New Nuclear Age 2010-02-05T10:13:21Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/255/14134 Water development in the West has always been about economic growth and enrichment, and current proposals for water use, whether from the public or private sector, need to be judged on their own merits No publisher Paul Larmer Water development privatization water groundwater development 2010-02-05T10:13:00Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/252/14010 There are as many ways to look at the West as there are lookers, as this special issue’s six essays demonstrate No publisher Paul Larmer Human Beings And Nature 2010-02-05T10:12:23Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/251/14002 Mesa Verde National Park in Colorado, which has experienced three major fires since 1996, can help teach the rest of the West how to live with wildfire No publisher Paul Larmer Fire 2010-02-05T10:12:09Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/wotr/14006 Paul Larmer wants a native-seed industry to flourish in the West. No publisher Paul Larmer Reclaimation 2010-02-05T09:28:29Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/250/13939 It is possible for human beings to live sustainably in the West, and native seeds may help to point the way No publisher Paul Larmer choose 2010-02-05T10:11:55Z News Article