http://www.hcn.org These are the search results for the query, showing results 91 to 105. http://www.hcn.org/issues/355/17252 A showdown in Idaho pits bighorn sheep lovers against longtime sheep ranchers, but if people are willing to work together, this grazing knot can be untied. No publisher Paul Larmer sheep lands bighorns grazing permits Ranching public High Country News 2010-08-25T22:40:58Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/353/17190 Meet HCN in Salt Lake City; hasta la vista, Gretchen Nicholoff; visitors; Robert Funkhouser dies; correction. No publisher Jodi Peterson and Paul Larmer High Country News Paonia Colorado Gretchen Nicholoff Robert Funkhouser 2010-02-05T09:30:57Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/352/17168 Recent Western fires have cleared the stage for the rampant growth of highly flammable exotic plants such as cheatgrass and the buffelgrass now invading the Sonoran Desert No publisher Paul Larmer exotic plants Wildfires cheatgrass invasive plants buffelgrass 2010-12-13T21:41:06Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/349/17077 Hunters have done a huge amount over the years to preserve wildlife and habitat, but the powerful group Sportsmen for Fish and Wildlife, with its obsessive focus on killing predators, seems to be taking a step backward No publisher Paul Larmer Sportsmen for Fish and Wildlife hunters habitat preservation conservation predators Don Peay 2010-07-29T23:50:40Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/346/17002 Sometimes it seems that only the impact of a severe drought can get Westerners to work together on water issues No publisher Paul Larmer Lake water supply Communities in transition growth Powell city Colorado River Compact Paonia Water conflict development small towns communities drought Lake Mead governments Colorado George subdivisions Las Vegas Nevada Colorado River Commission of Nevada 2010-08-06T20:17:00Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/345/16983 In his beautiful, compact book Working Wilderness, Nathan Sayres tells the story of the Malpai Borderlands Group, “the most hailed example of collaborative place-based resource management in the West.” No publisher Paul Larmer Chihuahua ranchers Movement reviews Arizona Working Nathan Sayres Malpai Borderlands Group Jim Corbett book Sonora mountains collaborative groups New Mexico landscape Gray Ranch deserts Durm Sanctuary Wilderness consensus land management Grazing 2010-08-06T21:50:47Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/articles/16991 Q and A with Ann Morgan, the former Colorado director of the BLM, who recently testified before Congress about the agency's push to open its lands to drilling. No publisher Paul Larmer BLM Ann Morgan public lands energy development 2010-02-05T08:40:08Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/344/16940 Despite a relatively snowy winter here in western Colorado, the season itself seems to have shrunk, with spring arriving weeks earlier than it once did in a trend with ominous consequences for the desert Southwest, particularly Phoenix. No publisher Paul Larmer seasonal Charlie Ester spring water supply Resources Con Arizona Craig Childs Phoenix Water moisture Colorado snowpack Natural Science global warming change winter climate hydrology Colorado Climate change Mike Gillespie Paonia Weather changes archaeology Salt River Project 2010-08-06T22:24:09Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/wotr/16938 Just as winter turns into spring, Paul Larmer watches a young elk die in western Colorado. No publisher Paul Larmer Weather Paul Larmer Lisa Larmer rural life western Colorado elk yearlings wildlife seasons spring winter Kirk Madariaga biology Colorado Division of Wildlife starvation animal populations mortality nature 2010-02-05T09:46:59Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/341/16862 The rapid spread of invasive species like quagga and zebra mussels could transform the once-isolated and ecologically unique West into just another McDonaldized patch of the planet. No publisher Paul Larmer Chinese elms A ecology Homogocene olives West Nile virus Plague of Rats and Rubbervines Russian cheatgrass Plants Biodiversity Exotics Science exotic species biotas global economy Invasive species quagga mussel biological diversity zebra mussel Invasive grasses Yvonne Baskin knapweed 2010-08-17T23:03:00Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/337/16754 This issue’s cover essay on New Mexico’s gas fields – and our publisher’s adventures during a recent snowstorm in Paonia – reveal the complex links that bind Westerners together for better or worse No publisher Paul Larmer Oil and Gas energy Paul Larmer winter weather slipping on ice snowstorms Hannah Paonia oil and gas industry royalties auto accidents blizzards communities New Mexico gas fields Colorado small town life Energy rural life Nordhaus human encounters Western Culture coal miners 2010-09-01T23:30:23Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/334/16676 The Peregrine Fund has proven that it can breed and release endangered birds of prey as often as it needs to, but do we want to treat Western wildlife like a crop of annual flowers that has to be re-seeded every year? No publisher Paul Larmer Threatened and Endangered biology Ogburn E.O. Wilson habitat lead bullets Stephanie Paige ecology Endangered Species Act salmon Birds peregrine falcon captive breeding programs endangered birds California condor aplomado falcon silvery minnow hatchery fish Peregrine Fund Species 2010-09-14T21:54:24Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/333/16655 Longtime community activist and HCN board member Luis Torres is delighted to see environmentalists and loggers working together in the forests of his native northern New Mexico No publisher Paul Larmer Pedro Logging San culture northern New Mexico Latino activists Southwest Research and Information Center Ne Hispanics Directors Vallecitos Luis Torres traditional Hispanic logging communities High Country News Board of Paul Larmer community organizers 2010-09-22T21:36:04Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/329/16510 High Country News reveals its odd historical connection with the West’s uranium obsession of the 1950s No publisher Paul Larmer Uranium Paul Larmer Tom Bell High Country News uranium mining nuclear power Murie Center Wyoming history Geiger counters mining busts mining claims boom and bust cycles conservationists environmentalists newspapers 2011-11-30T18:05:50Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/328/16471 Westerners, like most Americans, are deeply in love with their lawns – but in an time of increasing drought, the Kentucky bluegrass is going to have to go No publisher Paul Larmer Agriculture Water Irrigation Communities in Transition Paul Larmer Bob Cook lawn mowers lawns Kentucky bluegrass hay irrigation water drought family life backyards rural life Michigan farms global warming desert land use landscaping Xeriscape native plants gardening 2010-02-05T09:34:40Z News Article