One state moves to protect livestock while another wants to use them on predators.
Wyoming can have cyanide bombs — but Idaho can’t
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Latest: Mixed progress for Park Service on harassment
Interior Department clears former Yosemite superintendent of discrimination — and reports evidence for sexual harassment at Yellowstone.
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Why I’m cheering golf’s steep decline
Thank millennials and a poor economy for the sport’s falling popularity.
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Land transfer advocates steer their focus to monuments
A transfer movement moves to rescind monuments and weaken the Antiquities Act.
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Two factions face off over Grand Staircase-Escalante
A community in gridlock over the monument’s future.
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Winter snows bring spring flows
After a record low two years ago, this season’s substantial Sierra snowpack highlights the variability of winter weather in the West.
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Congress is running out of time to repeal Obama orders
An effort to rescind the methane rule could fizzle.
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California isn’t accounting for this major emitter
Even though large reservoirs emit methane, the state doesn’t off-set their impact.
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Who will pay for unsexy repairs in national parks?
Congress discusses how to prioritize the Park Service’s maintenance backlog.
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Week in review: April 7
Trump helps controversial water project in Mojave; EPA cuts; DAPL doubts.
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West Obsessed: What drives explosive wildfires?
High Country News staff discusses science behind increasingly devastating blazes.
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Oregon youths get another chance at learning outdoors
Outdoor School tries to give children common ground on conservation.
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What happens when all the animals are gone?
We are heading for a time when wildlife no longer exists.
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A conversation with Obama’s top Interior lawyer
A look at how the department has changed its relationships with tribes, and at legal battles on the horizon.
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A tribe wins rights to contested groundwater in court
A major federal court decision acknowledges that tribes have priority rights to groundwater — and could limit how much other users can take.
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How environmentalists could do more for Bears Ears
On issues of industrial recreation, green groups say too little.
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What the West was like before the EPA
The agency’s legacy isn’t perfect, but the region’s air and water are cleaner now than they once were.
Posted inApril 3, 2017: Firestorm
Zinke’s Interior takes shape; Big Rec’s big move; solar shift
HCN.org news in brief.
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You can’t take politics out of the West
Our editor-in-chief responds to recent criticism.
Posted inApril 3, 2017: Firestorm
Why coal has declined
In “Overdosed” in the Feb. 20 issue, the author writes, “Federal regulations and the low cost of natural gas have combined to create the worst economic climate for coal in decades.” While this sentence is true, it is also misleading. The real economic issue for Craig is not just the decline in coal demand, but […]