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Montana’s game managers try to outsmart elk
Could unpredictable seasons trick elk into staying on hunting grounds?
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When private pain becomes a community problem
How a rural clinic sparked a small-town addiction crisis.
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How a Chicano band blends urban and wild life
Quetzal finds a sense of place in East Los Angeles.
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Hit ’em where it hurts
The article “Bears Ears National Monument is a go” shows how, even with compromise, Utah lawmakers continue to attack this newest national monument using, as President Donald Trump’s spokeswoman Kellyanne Conway would say, “alternative facts” (HCN, 01/23/17). There is one potentially strong economic benefit behind the monument that wasn’t mentioned in the article. The Outdoor […]
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Harry Reid exits the ring
In an era of political gridlock, Congress loses a leader who got things done for the West.
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Artful science
Data and poetry converge in an experimental forest.
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Dig deeper into DAPL
I appreciate learning about the perspectives and feelings of people participating in the “Showdown at Standing Rock” (HCN, 1/23/17). Much of this has been lacking in the news. What I would find useful now are investigative articles that address a number of questions: • I do wonder how this pipeline and its route came about, […]
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A hidden epidemic
America is in the grips of a drug epidemic, and no community is immune. The abuse of opioid painkillers, which can lead to heroin use, is to blame. The latest data from the Centers for Disease Control are hardly encouraging. Overdose deaths nationwide tripled between 1999 and 2014; in 2014, 61 percent of more than […]
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A cautionary tale
Jonathan Thompson’s Jan. 23 article on the Bears Ears National Monument, in a paragraph concerning Utah lawmakers’ pledge to urge Trump to overturn the designation, states that “no president has ever tried to abolish a monument; it’s not clear that it’s even possible.” Right, insofar as current presidential powers. But Congress can, and has, delisted […]
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Obama rules repeal push meets resistance and an overbooked schedule
Groups hope the delay gives them time to save the BLM’s methane rule.
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Ask a Scientist: Why NOAA matters for the West
CIRES head Waleed Abdalati answers our questions.
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How one artist captured the changing climate in watercolor
Artist and scientist Jill Pelto’s riveting paintings use data to show climate change’s impacts.
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Happy birthday, Wallace Stegner
Reflections on a seminal Western author, years after his death.
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Why desalination alone won’t water the West
Regardless of supposed Trump backing, the process is complicated and expensive.
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Why keep the Salton Sea?
A history of the manmade — and now essential — inland ocean.
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The land of rain
Storms have drenched California. But they hardly compared to the storms of 1862.
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7 things you need to know about Navajo Generating Station’s 2019 closure
The West’s coal giant is going down.
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When the power of protest works
Organized dissent helped kill Rep. Chaffetz’s public-lands transfer bill.