The Wild West lives on in a distinctly Eastern way at
Western Village in Imaichi, Japan, sister city of Rapid City,
S.D.
Items by Josh Garrett-Davis
The writer visits an Old West theme park in Japan and
compares it to theme parks close to his home in South
Dakota
Prairie advocates like Jim Stubbendieck are trying to
restore sodbusted land and replant prairies, a task they
acknowledge may be almost impossible
A conservation movement is stirring on the Great Plains,
but local farmers are stuck with a harsh reality: It still pays to
plow up virgin prairie
Jetboats and planes could increase in the Frank
Church-River of No Return Wilderness, ignoring three illegal
hunting lodges along the Salmon River. George Nickas of
Montana-based Wilderness Watch has appealed the new management
plan, saying the largest
The writer has mixed feelings about repopulating the Great
Plains
Print the Legend: Photography and the American
West by Martha Sandweiss takes a hard and thoughtful look
at the historical uses of photography in the West
Environmental scientist James Gore warns that the water
that coalbed methane wells pours into streams could wipe out up to
30 aquatic species in the Powder River Basin of Wyoming and
Montana
Bruce Gordon started his nonprofit EcoFlight in Aspen,
Colo., to take kids out of the classroom and let them see
environmental issues from above, in his Cessna 210
A state task force says pollution regulations for coalbed
methane wells are severely under-enforced in Wyoming
A recent court ruling and a new California law could
curtail stream pollution by the logging industry
The Pollinator Conservation Handbook offers advice about
what ordinary citizens can do to help save declining native
pollinator insects, like bees and butterflies
In Nevada, the county-rights activists of the Jarbidge
Shovel Brigade clash with the Forest Service over the cleanup of an
outhouse on the closed South Canyon Road
In South Dakota, Wind Cave National Park has been trying
to purchase the neighboring Casey Ranch, but approval of the sale
has stalled in Congress, and now the ranch is for sale on the open
market
Scientists say that oil and gas drilling is responsible
for creating high levels of smog-forming hydrocarbons in Oklahoma,
Texas, Kansas, New Mexico and Colorado
The proposed Agricultural Jobs, Opportunity, Benefits and
Security Act of 2003 would give legal residency to about a
half-million undocumented immigrant farmworkers
In Utah, Kane and Garfield county commissioners escalate
their fight against Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument,
demanding the reduction of funding and staff and the demotion of
monument manager Dave Hunsaker
New interns Pua Mench and Josh Garrett-Davis; Redlodge
Clearinghouse; Visitors from afar
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