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Viva la Archives!
Budget cuts threaten California water’s institutional memory
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Wilderness by committee
Federal land protection is all about dealmaking
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Hard times reshuffle the political deck
A couple of years ago, signs asking “Why Does Ritter Hate Oil and Gas?” sprouted along western Colorado’s roadsides, just as Gov. Bill Ritter promised new regulations designed to temper the state’s frenzied drilling boom. Industry boosters claimed Ritter would regulate them right out of the state. And oddly enough, within the year, many companies […]
Posted inApril 26, 2010: Nevada's Pot of Gold
Crossing over
A city girl moves to the mountains for love
Posted inApril 26, 2010: Nevada's Pot of Gold
Building a more effective environmental movement
The Rebirth of Environmentalism: Grassroots Activism from the Spotted Owl to the Polar BearDouglas Bevington285 pages, softcover: $35. Island Press, 2009. In The Rebirth of Environmentalism, activist Douglas Bevington explores the relationship between large national organizations like the Sierra Club and small “grassroots biodiversity groups” like Northwest California’s Environmental Protection Information Center. Bevington describes the […]
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Sinclair flare up
Accident-prone refinery burdens Wyoming town
Posted inApril 26, 2010: Nevada's Pot of Gold
Reduce, reuse, re … steelhead?
A lunker case of deja vu
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Balancing act
A look at how Western states are managing the financial crisis
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High Country …
We here at High Country News want your money and will sink pretty low to get it. But we have yet to resort to armed robbery. There was some confusion about this in recent months as the FBI doggedly pursued the High Country Bandits. And though the guy in the security camera photos looks remarkably […]
Posted inApril 26, 2010: Nevada's Pot of Gold
Nevada’s Golden Child
Is the state’s hardrock mining industry losing its grip?
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On the river
As spring moves reluctantly into the West, thoughts turn to streams brimming with snowmelt. The Animas River, which winds through Durango, Colo., may be that community’s hottest flashpoint. For years, tension has been building between the river’s inner-tubers – a ragtag fleet of low-budget floaters — and just about everyone else, especially commercial rafters. It’s […]
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The cyber-gasfield
Maybe you’re one of the millions who’ve discovered Facebook in recent years. You relish the deep connection to long-lost friends, and even neighbors, that only the Internet allows. Maybe you enjoy “friending” ex-lovers who wish you were dead, and high-school jocks who ignored you except to punch you out in the locker room. Or maybe […]
Posted inApril 12, 2010: The Butterfly Sting
Horses running wild
$118.2 millionBLM wild horse and burro program budget request, 2011 $2.5 millionU.S. Fish and Wildlife Service wolf management budget request, 2011 (Northern Rockies) 26,600Number of wild horses and burros Western public lands can sustain (BLM estimate) 32,000Number of wild horses and burros now held in corrals and pastures (after being removed from public lands), up […]
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The marten chronicles
Framing the wrong guy isn’t always a bad thing
Posted inApril 12, 2010: The Butterfly Sting
Nature-for-profit
In the market for a Siberian weasel fur coat? A pair of eel-skin cowboy boots? A Louis Vuitton purse made from ostrich and monitor lizard skin? Look no further than lonestaronline.com. In February, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service began an eBay-style rolling auction of some 300,000 (HOT! NEW!) items from its National Wildlife Property […]
Posted inApril 12, 2010: The Butterfly Sting
The Butterfly Sting
How a federal wildlife agent brought down one of the world’s most notorious insect thieves.
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Our dirty past, our dirty present
Between 1972 and 1977, some 70 photographers set about documenting the American landscape, its environmental problems and its people for the then brand-new Environmental Protection Agency. Last summer, the National Archives and Records Administration began posting those Documerica Project images on Flickr.com in what will be a 15,000-shot collection. But 40 years after the EPA’s […]
Posted inApril 12, 2010: The Butterfly Sting
A poacher’s menagerie
Highlights from wildlife busts on the Western front
Posted inApril 12, 2010: The Butterfly Sting
The harsh truths of Bowden
Charles Bowden is a wonderful, as well as provocative, writer (HCN, 3/1/10). He has a way of serving up the truth so it slaps you in the face. I’m not sure any magazine but High Country News would have the guts to print this story as is. Maybe you would be willing to reprint something […]