High Country News http://www.hcn.org These are the search results for the query, showing results 1 to 15. Gray water, green living http://www.hcn.org/issues/314/16047 Brian Moore has retrofitted his house in Phoenix, Ariz., to enable him to re-use water and live more sustainably No publisher Hilary Watts Brian Moore gray water green lifestyle sustainable living water use plumbing St. Gregory’s Church and Elementary School Phoenix Arizona Colorado River Benedictine monks environmentalists water conservation 2010-02-05T08:56:34Z News Article Judge leaves Front Range cities mile-high and dry http://www.hcn.org/issues/306/15785 A Colorado judge cancels the water right of a private company that had planned to build the state’s largest dam and use it to pipe water from the Western Slope to the cities of Denver and Colorado Springs No publisher Hilary Watts Dams And Water Supply Projects Dams water supply projects Union Park Reservoir water rights Natural Energy Resources Co. Dave Miller Lotus Creek Taylor River Gunnison River transmountain water diversions Denver Colorado Springs Western Slope Colorado hydroelectric dams p 2012-03-05T23:01:57Z News Article Super-sized dam could be a cash register for California farmers http://www.hcn.org/issues/304/15720 The Bureau of Reclamation has agreed to deliver more water to California’s Central Valley Project than it actually has, and is considering raising Shasta Dam to provide it No publisher Hilary Watts irrigation CALFED Natural Resour dams Westlands Water District George Miller Hal Candee Shasta Dam Los Vaqueros Dam reservoirs water supply projects Dams And Water Supply Projects Bureau of Reclamation San Francisco Bay Delta Central Valley Project water sales Friant Dam 2012-03-30T22:28:04Z News Article Crazy like a fox, or a fish, or a bat... http://www.hcn.org/issues/303/15701 In The Back Road to Crazy, Jennifer Bove gathers the true-life adventure stories of 25 wildlife biologists No publisher Hilary Watts Jennifer Bove wildlife biologists U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service anthologies adventure stories personal accounts memoirs camping hiking wild animals bats snake bites 2010-02-05T09:25:53Z News Article Suburbia blasts through a national monument http://www.hcn.org/issues/301/15614 A rocky western escarpment and the Petroglyph National Monument have long held back Albuquerque’s sprawl, but now the Volcano Heights development is coming, and a controversial road through the monument may be built No publisher Hilary watts Parks And Monuments Inholdings And Development Archaeology Petroglyphs Land Use And Planning Albuquerque New Mexico Petroglyph National Monument sprawl growth development Volcano Heights Paseo del Norte land use planning subdivisions Michael Cadigan real estate Dolph Barnhouse 1000 Friends of New Mexico National Historic Preservati 2010-02-05T09:25:25Z News Article Former refuge manager takes heat for saving frogs http://www.hcn.org/issues/298/15507 Wayne Shifflett, former manager of the Buenos Aires National Wildlife Refuge in southern Arizona, was charged with illegally moving a small population of imperiled Chiricahua leopard frog tadpoles, in order to save their lives when drought threatened their habitat. No publisher Hilary Watts Threatened and Endangered Species Chiricahua leopard frog Wayne Shifflett Cecil Schwalbe Buenos Aires National Wildlife Refuge Endangered Species Act threatened amphibians Sue Chilton Arizona Game and Fish Commission federal biologists frogs tadpoles drought 2012-03-30T21:19:46Z News Article Blades, birds and bats: Wind energy and wildlife not a cut-and-dried issue http://www.hcn.org/issues/297/15484 Wind farms are working to make their turbines less hazardous to birds and bats No publisher Hilary Watts Wildlife Birds Renewable Energy wind power wind energy wind farms birds and wind turbines bats raptors bird mortality Bat Conservation International Ed Arnett Center for Biological Diversity Jeff Miller Altamont Pass Wind Resource Area raptor killings Laurie Jodziewicz Ame 2010-02-05T09:24:35Z News Article Farmers and ranchers say city is stealing water http://www.hcn.org/issues/296/15441 In New Mexico, Alamogordo’s plan to build a desalinization plant and tap the Tularosa Basin aquifer has area ranchers and farmers worried No publisher Hilary Watts Groundwater Water Tularosa Basin Aquifer Alamogordo groundwater desalinization Chihuahuan Desert ranchers water rights water wells Dan Abercrombie Tularosa Community Ditch Corporation 2010-02-05T09:24:21Z News Article Climate model may help farmers know what to grow http://www.hcn.org/issues/296/15439 A high-tech climate model will give farmers in Washington’s Yakima Valley a kind of crystal ball for predicting weather, choosing which crops to plant, and dealing with drought and global warming No publisher Hilary Watts Science Climate Change Crops Yakima Valley farming agriculture drought crop yields global warming climate models climate change Michael J. Scott Pacific Northwest National Laboratory Roza Irrigation District scientists 2010-02-05T09:24:21Z News Article Rock jocks fight a mining company http://www.hcn.org/issues/295/15404 Resolution Copper Company is trying to obtain a land swap in order to mine at Arizona’s Oak Flat campground, a popular rock-climbing spot No publisher Hilary Watts Copper Oak Flat campground Superior Arizona Resolution Copper Company Rio Tinto Company Broken Hill Proprietary Company Ltd. land swaps Forest Service Bureau of Land Management rock climbing mining impacts National Environmental Policy Act Jason Keit 2010-02-05T09:24:08Z News Article Indian tribe to share refuge with feds http://www.hcn.org/issues/294/15369 The Nisqually Tribe will share management of recently purchased land in Nisqually National Wildlife Refuge in Washington with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service No publisher Hilary Watts Native Americans Sovereignty Wildlife Refuges Nisqually Tribe Nisqually National Wildlife Refuge U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service David Troutt Norm Dicks tribal sovereignty wetlands restoration chinook salmon Pacific loons long-toed salamanders Nisqually Delta Washington 2010-02-05T09:23:58Z News Article Is Preble's just another meadow mouse? http://www.hcn.org/issues/293/15328 The Fish and Wildlife Service wants to delist the threatened Preble’s meadow jumping mouse, on the grounds that the animal is genetically identical to a more common species No publisher Hilary Watts jumping mouse development Jeremy Nichols Threatened and Endangered Species endangered species list sprawl Coloradans for Water Conservation and Development Biodiversity Conserv threatened wildlife Preble’s meadow jumping mouse Denver Museum of Nature and Science Bear Lodge meadow 2010-12-15T20:06:17Z News Article Coal company takes refuge in a blind spot http://www.hcn.org/issues/292/15299 Environmentalists on both sides of the border are up in arms over a Canadian coal company’s plans for an open-pit mine north of Montana’s Glacier National Park No publisher Hilary Watts Coal Coal mines open-pit mining Glacier National Park Foisey Creek British Columbia Cline Mining Corp. Flathead River Flathead Lake International Joint Commission 2010-02-05T09:23:30Z News Article Locals flush proposed kitty litter mine http://www.hcn.org/issues/291/15264 A recent court ruling denying a proposed cat-litter mine in Nevada’s Washoe County could give local communities more control over mining projects on federal land. No publisher Hilary Watts 1872 Mining Law Reno-Sparks Indian Colony James Hardesty public lands mining Oil-Dri Corporation Arlan Melendez Western Mining Action Project Bureau of Land Management groundwater pollution Roger Flynn 2010-02-05T09:23:11Z News Article Dear friends http://www.hcn.org/issues/291/15257 New interns Julie McCord and Hilary Watts; feisty HCN board meeting in Boulder; corrections No publisher J.M. McCord, Hilary Watts, Greg Hanscom High Country News Dear Friends Julie McCord Hilary Watts Michael Fischer Andy Robinson Patricia Limerick Bill Mitchell New Belgium Brewery 2010-02-05T09:23:06Z News Article