http://www.hcn.org These are the search results for the query, showing results 1 to 15. http://www.hcn.org/issues/298/15508 In Utah, an "omnibus" public-lands bill may create several new wilderness areas near Zion National Park, but at the same time authorize the auction of federal lands for development No publisher Matt Jenkins Wilderness Legislation wilderness areas Zion National Park Washington County Utah wilderness and economic development bills public lands sales development sprawl St. George Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance Peter Downing Olene Walker Bob Bennett Utah county c 2012-03-30T21:39:22Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/305/15744 The Quivira Coalition is working hard to try to preserve the West’s remaining private ranchlands – but much more needs to be done to protect this invaluable land No publisher Paul Larmer Communities Communities in Transition Grazing Ranching grazing private lands public lands open space development wildlife habitat Western communities ranchers Quivira Coalition conservation easements healthy beef movement cattle business 2012-03-08T22:09:45Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/44.3/how-arizonas-culture-helped-shape-the-shooting-of-gabrielle-giffords If you want to understand why Jared Lee Loughner shot Congresswoman Gabby Giffords and 18 others at a Tucson Safeway in 2011, look to Arizona’s soulless culture and vitriolic politics. No publisher Tom Zoellner development sprawl Arizona politics state budget cuts Arizona culture mental illness Tucson Safeway shooting Jared Lee Loughner Tucson suburbs political violence Gabrielle Giffords guns Jan Brewer 2012-02-27T15:16:23Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/307/15814 Perchlorate, a toxic chemical used in rocket fuel, has been found in drinking water wells, but that won’t stop the development of West Creek, a planned community northeast of Los Angeles No publisher Patrick Farrell Water Pollution Land Use And Planning Los Angeles County West Creek perchlorate planned communities development Newhall Land and Farming Co. Valencia Water Co. groundwater pollution drinking water wells water supply Whittaker-Bermite Lynne Plambeck Marlee Lauffer environmental ac 2012-02-14T17:34:22Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/wotr/pity-the-sacketts-not-much An Idaho couple are getting a lot of sympathy because the EPA has halted construction of their planned home on a wetland, but if the agency would be more open with the facts, it would come out looking better. No publisher Judith Lewis Mernit wetlands protection development U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Sackett v. Environmental Protection Agency Kaniksu National Forest Idaho wetlands Obama environmental policy Supreme Court cases Mike and Chantell Sackett EPA 2012-01-31T17:35:58Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/326/16424 Renee Ross weighs in on the pros – and cons – of Oregon’s Measure 37 No publisher Ray Ring Land Use and Planning Measure 37 land use planning zoning development open space real estate Dorothy English Ted Schroeder Bill Rose Jim Miller Renee Ross citizen involvement Clackamas County farming rural life Newberry National Volcanic Monument vacation home 2011-11-13T00:37:56Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/326/16423 Jim Miller weighs in on the pros – and cons – of Oregon’s Measure 37 No publisher Ray Ring Land Use and Planning Measure 37 land use planning zoning development open space real estate Dorothy English Ted Schroeder Bill Rose Jim Miller Renee Ross citizen involvement Clackamas County farming rural life Newberry National Volcanic Monument vacation home 2011-11-13T00:34:53Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/326/16420 Ted Schroeder weighs in on the pros – and cons – of Oregon’s Measure 37 No publisher Ray Ring Land Use and Planning Measure 37 land use planning zoning development open space real estate Dorothy English Ted Schroeder Bill Rose Jim Miller Renee Ross citizen involvement Clackamas County farming rural life Newberry National Volcanic Monument vacation home 2011-11-13T00:22:41Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/326/16421 Bill Roses weigh in on the pros – and cons – of Oregon’s Measure 37 No publisher Ray Ring Land Use and Planning Measure 37 land use planning zoning development open space real estate Dorothy English Ted Schroeder Bill Rose Jim Miller Renee Ross citizen involvement Clackamas County farming rural life Newberry National Volcanic Monument vacation home 2011-11-13T00:19:40Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/324/16367 The revised edition of Peter Decker’s Old Fences, New Neighbors examines the changes that population growth has brought to remote Ouray County in western Colorado No publisher Steve Weinberg Land Use and Planning Peter Decker Old Fences New Neighbors Ouray County Colorado Western demographics second homes real estate ranching Kent Nelson growth development small towns rural life 2011-11-12T03:03:49Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/319/16211 As suburban neighborhoods sprawl into California’s agricultural land, residents are faced with pesticide drift and other problems No publisher Michelle Burkhart Pesticide drift agriculture-urban interface sprawl development farming Yesenia and Jose Castillo chloropicrin pesticide health impacts pesticide safety Bruce Welden Monterey County Department of Health San Joaquin Valley California popula Pesticides Bruce Welden Monterey County Department of Health California population 2011-10-27T21:58:38Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/wotr/the-adolescent-west Logan, Utah, needs to get over its adolescent angst and decide what it wants to be when it grows up. No publisher Dennis Hinkamp Logan, Utah sprawl growth and planning development Small towns 2011-06-27T22:10:13Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/290/15229 A major pronghorn migration route near Pinedale, Wyo., gets squeezed by new subdivisions and oil and gas drill rigs No publisher Noah Brenner development sprawl Shell EnCana Oil and Gas Energy Antelope Alley Green River Valley Land Trust Land Use And Coalition Wyoming Game and oil and gas industry Planning Upper Green River Valley wildlife migration routes Bureau of Land Management Fish Dep drill rigs Questar Pronghorn Communities 2011-05-03T23:08:01Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/43.6/green-new-urbanist-development-rises-in-albuquerque-suburbs An ambitious green development is in the works on Mesa del Sol just outside of Albuquerque, N.M. No publisher Stan Alcorn development sprawl New Urbanism Mesa del Sol Peter Calthorpe planning Albuquerque Aquifer 2011-04-12T21:37:20Z Infographic http://www.hcn.org/issues/300/15582 With housing prices on the rise in the state, the California Environmental Quality Act is under attack No publisher Tony Barboza Land Use And Planning California Environmental Quality Act California housing prices home prices real estate affordable housing development construction industry Arnold Schwarzenegger Don Perata Karen Douglas Planning and Conservation League California Legislature 2011-03-18T23:57:31Z News Article