Brian Moore has retrofitted his house in Phoenix, Ariz.,
to enable him to re-use water and live more sustainably
Items by Hilary Watts
A Colorado judge cancels the water right of a private
company that had planned to build the state’s largest dam and
use it to pipe water from the Western Slope to the cities of Denver
and Colorado Springs
The Bureau of Reclamation has agreed to deliver more water
to California’s Central Valley Project than it actually has,
and is considering raising Shasta Dam to provide it
In The Back Road to Crazy, Jennifer
Bove gathers the true-life adventure stories of 25 wildlife
biologists
A rocky western escarpment and the Petroglyph National
Monument have long held back Albuquerque’s sprawl, but now
the Volcano Heights development is coming, and a controversial road
through the monument may be built
Wayne Shifflett, former manager of the Buenos Aires National
Wildlife Refuge in southern Arizona, was charged with illegally
moving a small population of imperiled Chiricahua leopard frog
tadpoles, in order to save their lives when drought threatened
their habitat.
Wind farms are working to make their turbines less
hazardous to birds and bats
In New Mexico, Alamogordo’s plan to build a
desalinization plant and tap the Tularosa Basin aquifer has area
ranchers and farmers worried
A high-tech climate model will give farmers in
Washington’s Yakima Valley a kind of crystal ball for
predicting weather, choosing which crops to plant, and dealing with
drought and global warming
Resolution Copper Company is trying to obtain a land swap
in order to mine at Arizona’s Oak Flat campground, a popular
rock-climbing spot
The Nisqually Tribe will share management of recently
purchased land in Nisqually National Wildlife Refuge in Washington
with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
The Fish and Wildlife Service wants to delist the
threatened Preble’s meadow jumping mouse, on the grounds that
the animal is genetically identical to a more common
species
Environmentalists on both sides of the border are up in
arms over a Canadian coal company’s plans for an open-pit
mine north of Montana’s Glacier National Park
A recent court ruling denying a proposed cat-litter mine
in Nevada’s Washoe County could give local communities more
control over mining projects on federal land.
New interns Julie McCord and Hilary Watts; feisty HCN
board meeting in Boulder; corrections
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