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Our nuclear legacy should have taught us something http://www.hcn.org/wotr/our-nuclear-legacy-should-have-taught-us-something Utah considers building a nuclear power plant despite the fact that it's still cleaning up the mess left over from the last uranium boom.No publisherJen Jackson2012-02-29T02:35:54ZNews ArticleThe revolution will be motorized http://www.hcn.org/wotr/the-revolution-will-be-motorized The road rage over federal attempts to manage motorized access to public land is disproportionate and completely distracting.No publisherJen JacksonBLMORV accessRS 2477Forest Servicemotorized recreation2011-06-14T16:23:17ZNews ArticleHousing keeps getting tighter all the time http://www.hcn.org/issues/42.20/housing-keeps-getting-tighter-all-the-time In many Western tourist towns, locals can't afford to buy houses, even as trailers and other affordable dwellings are evicted or banned outright. No publisherJen JacksonMoab lifestyletrailer parkstrailersyurtshousing priceshousing codesplanning and zoningaffordable housing2010-12-03T15:03:30ZNews ArticleMexican wolves, still strangers in a strange land http://www.hcn.org/wotr/mexican-wolves-still-strangers-in-a-strange-land Is the restoration of Mexican wolves to the American Southwest worth the price the animals are paying in suffering and blood?No publisherJen Jackson2010-12-03T21:24:43ZNews ArticleLet's not forget the hidden costs of uranium mining http://www.hcn.org/wotr/lets-not-forget-the-hidden-costs-of-uranium-mining Uranium mining hasn't caused any massive cave-ins or oil spills, but it has resulted in a huge death toll all the same.No publisherJen Jacksonmining disastersuranium miningAtlas mine tailingsnuclear powerPandora minecancer clusters2010-06-15T19:12:51ZNews ArticleWhen school budgets get cut to the bone, what then? http://www.hcn.org/wotr/when-school-budgets-get-cut-to-the-bone-what-then The budget crunch faced by schools in Grand County, Utah, poses a terrible threat to the region's young people.No publisherJen Jackson 2010-03-09T22:58:44ZNews ArticleDriven to fight http://www.hcn.org/issues/342/16895 Retired BLM agent Lynell Schalk goes head-to-head with her
former bosses over protecting southern Utah’s priceless
archaeological sites from off-road vehicle traffic.No publisherJen JacksonGulch PriArchaic cultureMonticello BLM field officeGrandBureau of Land ManagementSouthwestern archaeologyPublic landsUtahpothuntersenforcementSandy MeyersBLM lawAncient Puebloan ruinsBLMRuinsSanlootingOff-roadvehiclesJuan CountyLynell SchalkIndian ruinsAnasazi2010-08-16T22:31:51ZNews ArticleA Utah resort town welcomes 300,000 foreigners http://www.hcn.org/wotr/16694 The writer has high hopes for a beetle from Kazakhstan
that devours invasive tamarisk treesNo publisherJen JacksonWater2010-02-05T09:28:10ZNews ArticleWhen does a deer become an elk? And other
questions… http://www.hcn.org/wotr/14266 Jen Jackson wants tourists to get of their cars and really
see the West.No publisherJen JacksonTourismtourism2010-02-05T09:29:23ZNews Article