Scott Rashid rescues and rehabilitates owls, eagles and other birds at his house in Estes Park, Colo.
Items by Michelle Blank
Park Ranger Jim Detterline battles the agency he loves
over its insistence that a hearing impairment makes him unfit for
his job.
Utah state Rep. Mike Noel is still fighting the federal
government over Grand Staircase-Escalante National
Monument
In Idaho’s Magic Valley, cow capital of the
fourth-largest milk-producing state in the U.S., entrepreneurs are
hoping to cash in on all that manure by using anaerobic digesters
to convert it into energy
U.S. officials, federal agencies, and even Condoleezza
Rice are trying to stop a Canadian coal mine near Montana's
Flathead Basin.
Arizona considers plans to clean up salty irrigation water
without drying out wetlands created by that water.
Brian Bay of Sandy, Utah, is the world champion of
grocery-store baggers, following his triumph at the National
Grocers Association Best Bagger Competition.
Democratic presidential hopefuls and tribal leaders will
meet face-to-face this summer on California's Morongo
reservation.
Washington state wildlife officials just released the
first batch of endangered Columbia Basin pygmy rabbits back to the
wild.
Two massive dams on Washington's Elwha River will be
demolished to restore salmon runs.
While most of Utah's counties support unrestricted
off-roading, Emery County is bucking the trend.
The BLM's National Landscape Conservation System will lose
ground under President Bush’s proposed 2008 budget, which
slashes funds by $8.56 million.
A close look at the data shows that, despite some
restrictions, oil and gas drilling is on the rise in the
West.
A BLM report issued in late 2006 appears to show that less
land is available for energy exploration now than in 2003, but a
closer look shows that appearances are deceiving.
New winter interns Erin Halcomb and Michelle Blank;
HCN wins Utne press award; Crystal Zevon visits;
corrections.
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