High Country News http://www.hcn.org These are the search results for the query, showing results 1 to 15. Land trusts thrive despite, and because of, the Great Recession http://www.hcn.org/issues/43.21/land-trusts-thrive-despite-and-because-of-the-great-recession The recession has afforded a unique opportunity for land trusts to protect more of the West’s private open land through direct acquisitions and, increasingly, conservation easements. No publisher Jon Christensen, Jenny Rempel and Judee Burr Blackfoot Challenge ranchers farmers conservation easements demographics Land trusts housing development recession sprawl and development open lands protection public-private land conservation land preservation real estate bust working landscapes 2011-12-14T15:38:48Z News Article Measuring Tahoe’s blues http://www.hcn.org/issues/40.14/lake-tahoes-blues Jon Christensen accompanies scientists trying to measure the opacity and “blueness” of Lake Tahoe. No publisher Jon Christensen Lake Tahoe Pollution 2010-02-05T09:27:15Z News Article Dreaming of a New Deal for nature http://www.hcn.org/issues/40.13/dreaming-of-a-new-deal-for-nature A review of Neil M. Maher's book, "Nature's New Deal: The Civilian Conservation Corps and the Roots of the American Environmental Movement," which reminds us that to succeed, an environmental policy must reckon compromise. No publisher Jon Christensen Civilian Conservation Corps environmental movement 2010-02-05T09:04:06Z News Article The great wilderness compromise http://www.hcn.org/issues/338/16795 Both sides of the contentious debate over a proposed Idaho wilderness bill invoke Howard Zahniser, father of the Wilderness Act -- and both sides have a point. No publisher Jon Christensen White Cloud Mountains Forever Carole King Wilderness Lyndon Johnson untrammeled wilderness areas Wilderness legislation wilderness legislation Congress compromise advocacy groups Wilderness Act Henry Clay politics Mike Simpson Howard Zahniser Mark Harvey 2010-08-30T23:45:37Z News Article How not to fix conservation easements http://www.hcn.org/wotr/15427 The writers urge support for conservation easements and their tax breaks as a way to protect private land from development No publisher Jon Christensen and Terry Anderson Land Use And Planning 2010-02-05T09:45:59Z News Article Gov. Schwarzenegger is the nation's newest Progressive http://www.hcn.org/wotr/15393 The writers watch Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger launch initiatives over the head of California’s state legislators No publisher Margaret O'Mara and Jon Christensen 2010-02-05T09:45:42Z News Article It takes a community to save the sage grouse http://www.hcn.org/wotr/15210 The writer says it’s up to locals to keep sage grouse alive No publisher Jon Christensen Birds Threatened and Endangered Species 2010-02-05T09:44:32Z News Article Go West, Democrats, in the path of Harry Reid http://www.hcn.org/issues/289/15198 New Senate minority leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., brings to Capitol Hill the lessons learned from a hardscrabble Nevada childhood No publisher Jon Christensen Congress Harry Reid Senate minority leader Democratic Party Republican Party Yucca Mountain Capitol Hill 2010-02-05T09:22:40Z News Article Go West, Democrats, in the path of Harry Reid http://www.hcn.org/wotr/15150 The writer profiles the Democrats’ new minority leader, Sen. Harry Reid, a quintessential Westerner No publisher Jon Christensen Elected Officials 2010-02-05T09:44:19Z News Article Biology: The missing science http://www.hcn.org/issues/271/14656 Studies by Montana’s Andrew Hansen and Colorado’s Rick Knight offer some of the first scientific evidence that preserving ranch lands provides important benefits to surrounding ecosystems No publisher Jon Christensen Agriculture Livestock Ranching Biodiversity Andrew Hansen Rick Knight biodiversity ranch lands open space grazing Gunnison sage grouse Clait Braun Gunnison County Ranchland Conservation Legacy Susan Lohr wildlife biology ecology Science 2010-02-05T09:56:49Z News Article Not just a ranch: Bucks and acres http://www.hcn.org/issues/271/14655 Carl Palmer hopes to make his Adobe Ranch in California an economic success to prove that open space can be financially as well as environmentally valuable No publisher Jon Christensen Agriculture Livestock Ranching Land Use And Planning Carl Palmer Greenbridges Adobe Ranch conservation easements developers subdivisions sprawl ranching economics open space Wetlands Reserve Program 2010-02-05T09:56:49Z News Article Who will take over the ranch? http://www.hcn.org/issues/271/14648 As private lands become the new frontier in the West’s wild real estate frenzy, ranchers are turning to land trusts in places like Gunnison, Colo., to find out how to hold on to their land and keep it open and undeveloped No publisher Jon Christensen Agriculture Livestock Ranching Land Use And Planning Land trusts conservation easements Gunnison County Colorado Crested Butte real estate subdivisions developers development sprawl ranching ranch lands private lands conservation farmland land preservation Gunnison Ranchland Conservation Lega 2010-02-05T09:56:43Z News Article Showdown on the Nevada range http://www.hcn.org/issues/209/10672 The Sagebrush Rebellion smolders when the BLM impounds and tries to auction off cattle owned by ranchers Ben Colvin and Jack Vogt for refusing to pay for grazing allotments. No publisher Jon Christensen Public Lands 2010-02-05T08:36:04Z News Article A bitter valley waits http://www.hcn.org/issues/206/10615 Residents of Nevada's Amargosa Valley, not far from Yucca Mountain, seem to be mostly ambivalent over the prospect of the high-level nuclear waste dump opening. No publisher Jon Christensen Waste 2010-02-05T08:35:43Z News Article Can Nevada bury Yucca Mountain? http://www.hcn.org/issues/206/10604 The unexpected power shift in the U.S. Senate raises environmentalists' hopes that the high-level nuclear waste dump proposed for Yucca Mountain in Nevada, which once seemed unstoppable, may not be a "done deal" after all. No publisher Jon Christensen Waste 2010-02-05T08:35:35Z News Article