That's what the jury says.
Items by Ray Ring
Mississipian to run Western empire?
The church doesn't condone it.
The Environmental Working Group and other organizations have released detailed studies of the West along the lines of Colorado College’s State of the Rockies Report Card.
Also: The economic stimulus package has money for Western national parks and monuments.
Peregrines star in live webvideo.
Michael J. Yochim writes the primer on the Yellowstone snowmobile conflict in his admirably balanced Yellowstone and the Snowmobile: Locking Horns over National Park Use.
It would include a bumpersticker that says "Potatoes Suck."
The Obama administration appoints environmentalists to some important positions in the Interior Department and other agencies.
Also: The West faces a growing shortage of food-supply animal veterinarians.
It's more evidence that off-road driving is dangerous fun.
And green groups barely notice.
Bipartisan politics briefly returned to Washington, D.C., with the passage of the Omnibus Public Land Management Act.
Also: A map highlights some of the newly protected lands in the West.
And a few Republicans provide the key opposition to it.
It gives the bird's-eye view of eccentric scientists as well.
Macho B might not have had kidney disease, says a pathologist.
Bleeding wolf package, inferior salmon, Obama vs Indian health, and Sen. Reid vs polygamy.
For instance, billions for new roads = more drivers spewing out emissions.
Green champagne, eagle bust, backroom Mormon politics, and latest killer bees.
And even as the Big Greens cheer, a few Greens criticize it.
Links to a leading Western Repub, a YouTube energy czar, a nuke map and a lone wolverine.
Links to stories about birds, the Omni, a top ecologist and guns.
Some look wimpy but might not be.
Western environmentalists get good news about Yucca Mountain, but face challenges from state legislatures. Also: Americans finally reduce their driving miles.
Now that Val Kilmer is considering a campaign for New Mexico's governorship, why not have actors run all the Western states?
Hal Herring traces the history of the American West through its guns and the people who used them in Famous Firearms of the Old West.
And this battle -- over a huge public-lands law -- reveals shifts in Western politics.
Westerners have a knack for new and innovative thinking, such as: Redefining rancher politics, A rediscovered renewable, Creating public nooks and crannies and more.
Westerners have a knack for new and innovative thinking: Green detective, Healthcare for the hard up, Developing to stop development, Low carbon brews and more.
Westerners have a knack for new and innovative thinking, as this special issue of HCN shows.
Poet Richard Shelton has run writing workshops in Arizona prisons for more than 30 years.
Australia’s recent fires may have scorched “Stay and Defend,” a firefighting strategy American Westerners had thought of emulating. Also: Birds are shifting their winter range.
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