A look inside a Bureau of Land Management oil and gas leasing auction, a tradition that may be killed by the digital age.
Items by Morgan Heim
After conquering rocks, trails and mountains, weekend
warriors have found a new hobby: Climbing the West’s big
trees.
In southern Colorado, conservation groups find a way to
save 9,000 high-altitude acres from second-home
development.
In southwestern Arizona, the U.S. Border Patrol is working
with Cocopah Indians and environmentalists to restore a degraded,
crime-ridden wetland called Hunters Hole.
Environmentalists and Fish and Wildlife battle over the
return of the jaguar to Southwestern borderlands.
In the Southwest’s Chihuahuan Desert, prairie dogs
and kangaroo rats provide food and shelter for a host of other
animals.
In western Colorado, a coalition has rallied to buy
habitat for one of the world’s rarest plants.
A new desalination technology uses the sun and your air
conditioner to create fresh water.
In order to save bighorn sheep, wildlife officials kill a
mountain lion, and more sheep.
California's largest lake, the Salton Sea, is on the verge
of ecological collapse.
The owners of a 1938 mining claim in the Uncompaghre
wilderness plan to start digging for gold.
In rural Colorado, border collies and their handlers
compete in a Western tradition, sheep dog trials.
In Telluride, townsfolk raise $50 million to preserve open
space, but the land's owner is fighting condemnation.
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