An ambitious plan to create new corridors for power lines
and pipelines will make it easier for utility companies to tap into
the West’s energy boom
Items by Allison Gerfin
Farmers and conservationists have reached a settlement
that allows water to flow in California’s San Joaquin River,
home to the Friant Dam
In Wyoming, oil and gas workers and the Wyoming AFL-CIO
have joined environmentalists, ranchers and homeowners in
protesting the sale of energy leases in the Wyoming Range of
Bridger-Teton National Forest
The Mormon Church has issued a statement opposing a
planned nuclear waste storage site not far from Salt Lake City,
Utah, on the Skull Valley Goshute Reservation
The recent deaths of 10 wolves in eastern Arizona are a
wrenching example of everything that has gone wrong with the
troubled Mexican wolf recovery program
"Divine Strake" — a proposed weapons detonation at
the Nevada Test Site – has stirred up fears of radioactive
contamination and the possibility of a new nuclear arms
race
Welcome, new interns Stephanie Paige Ogburn and Allison
Gerfin; Southwest Research and Information Center celebrates 35
years; Wendell Duffield wants to know what happened to the U.S.
Geological Survey
- Meet the gun-toting ‘Tenacious Unicorns’ in rural Colorado
- Diverted, drained and dwindling: What’s the fate of New Mexico’s Rio Grande?
- The Washington, D.C., siege has Western roots and consequences
- A viral coyote-badger video demonstrates the incredible complexity of nature
- The Pyramid Lake Paiute Tribe reintroduces bighorn sheep on tribal lands
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