BLM's no-drilling decision in Colorado startles locals.
Items by Jennie Lay
An obscure cave near Steamboat Springs, Colo., contains rare hydrogen sulfide-consuming worms that might hold a key to extraterrestrial life forms.
Author Alexandra Fuller talks about the impacts of oil drilling on her chosen home of Wyoming.
In Western communities with runaway land values, many ranching heirs have a hard time holding on to the family farm.
New York transplant Erin Toll helps Colorado crack down on
conservation easement abuses.
Latino writer Luis Alberto Urrea talks about the border
and remembers the women in his family who inspired him.
In Crybaby Ranch, novelist Tina Welling tells a romantic
story with zest.
Colorado inventor Jim Sears is among those researchers
fascinated by the possibility that algae farms in the Southwest
could provide a source of biodiesel.
Laina Corazon Coit and her brother, Rick Chase, want to
create Colorado’s first natural burial ground and wildlife
refuge on the eastern prairie
The Dire Elegies laments the plight of
North America's endangered wildlife in poetic detail
Even as raising sturgeon for caviar takes off in the San
Francisco Bay-Delta area, the region's wild sturgeon are in serious
trouble, along with the rest of the Bay-Delta’s
ecology
Craig Kennedy, who hasn’t let a wheelchair keep him
from skiing, doesn’t believe physical disabilities should
keep anybody out of the backcountry
Artist Joan Hoffman pours her love of wilderness into her
paintings, and uses her art as a way to fight for the
environment
The National Park Service’s new management plan for
the Grand Canyon river corridor allows continued motorized
access
Northeastern Utah, southern Wyoming and western Colorado
are humming with new talk of oil shale, but industry insiders say
that the technology has years to go before oil shale development is
financially and environmentally viable
The Land Trust Alliance hopes its new accreditation
program for land trusts will forestall the passage of federal
legislation designed to end the abuse of conservation
easements
The Colorado Oil and Gas Conservation Commission has a
complicated mission: It’s supposed to help the energy
industry, while protecting the public from the industry’s
impacts
In 1969, the Atomic Energy Commission exploded an
underground nuclear bomb in western Colorado; today, the site of
Project Rulison is attracting natural gas drillers
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