Boosters want Fontenelle Dam to divert more water in southwest Wyoming.
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New data released on violent threats to federal employees
Documents show 15 incidents in 2014, but don’t account for the Cliven Bundy standoff.
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Methane leaks from oil and gas production on federal lands
New proposals from EPA and BLM to curtail leaks are due out this summer.
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Grouseonomics: The imperiled greater sage grouse, by the numbers
Economic and ecological impacts of the bird in Western states.
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In Arizona, the people move ahead of the politicians
Arizona, once dubbed “the meth lab of democracy” by political comedian Jon Stewart, continues its sad ways. To wit, when unveiling his first “no-new-taxes” budget, ex-ice-cream salesman and new Republican Gov. Doug Ducey tried to sneak through a provision that would have taken money away from veterans’ programs for the living in order to pay […]
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Lake Mead watch: As levels fall, hydropower dips
Why Southwest utilities are starting to sweat.
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The pain thief of Spokane
Spokane, Washington, the little city that has a knack for weirdness, is back in the limelight again. Not so long ago it was all about the outing of our anti-gay mayor, who’d been discovered trolling for young men. This time it’s all about Rachel Dolezal. Everyone knew her as the dynamic black president of the […]
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Wild Science: Netting mule deer in western Colorado
Go behind the scenes with scientists investigating declining populations.
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A door squeaks open for rural energy independence
A Colorado co-op just won some freedom from its giant power supplier. Now what?
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Grand Canyon floods are rebuilding sandbars
But there are limits to what can be done to tweak dam management to benefit ecosystems.
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How the West will feel groundwater shortages
New research shows stressed water supplies, as demand increases.
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Wrangell recovers from its timber hangover
Can a small Alaska town overcome the booms and busts of resource development?
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Soaking Wet in Colorado
Every day since early May, an incredibly cheerful robin has been singing from the top of a tree behind my house. Chee-oo-woot, chee-oo-woot, chee-oo-weet, chee-oo woot. He’s the Gene Kelly of birds. Because for six weeks straight it’s been snowing, hailing, spinning tornados, flooding, or pouring here in Denver. And this bird keeps singing in […]
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Lake Mead watch: six inches from the level that triggers cutbacks
If water curtailments go into effect, which states are most vulnerable, and why?
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A uranium mine is anything but a good neighbor
Driving the road between uranium mines on the Grand Canyon’s North Rim recently, I got a taste of what it’s like to live along a truck route for hauling uranium. Unfortunately, it’s a reality that may soon face anyone living between northern Arizona and southern Utah if a uranium mine reopens close to the South […]
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Hillary would charge new fees for fossil fuel extraction
Candidate for Democratic nomination tells Republican presidential hopefuls to heed scientists on global warming.
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Milltown renaissance: Who would have believed it?
Below Montana’s famous big sky, the environmental wounds of history fester. Along the banks of the Clark Fork River, for example, from Warm Springs to Milltown, Montana, one of the largest Superfund sites in the United States stretches across 120 miles of communities and streambeds. Large swaths of the Clark Fork River have slowly been […]
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Ranch Diaries: An East Coast visitor adds some perspective
Sometimes hosting an outsider is the perfect reboot.
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Canada can’t expand oil sands and also meet global climate goals
103 scientists call for a moratorium on new development.
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Go behind the scenes of wildlife science
Sneak preview of a new HCN video series that explores field research shaping the West today.