A Colorado co-op just won some freedom from its giant power supplier. Now what?
A door squeaks open for rural energy independence
Posted inJune 22, 2015: Dust to Dust
Where industry makes earthquakes
Fracking has caused quakes in several states, but more research is needed.
Posted inJune 22, 2015: Dust to Dust
We’re letting another predator go down
In New Mexico, some wildlife outranks others, with mountain lions landing near the bottom of the pack. It’s not much of an exaggeration to say that the solitary Puma concolor enjoys the status of rats or “trash fish” — which is how New Mexico’s wildlife department characterizes carp. Late last month, the New Mexico Game and […]
Posted inJune 22, 2015: Dust to Dust
Underdog roboticists
Review of ‘Spare Parts: Four Undocumented Teenagers, One Ugly Robot, and the Battle for the American Dream’ by Joshua Davis.
Posted inJune 22, 2015: Dust to Dust
The scrappy effort to revive a former mining town
In Butte, Montana, optimism is booming.
Posted inJune 22, 2015: Dust to Dust
The sage grouse two-step
Massive federal sage grouse conservation plans strike a delicate balance.
Posted inJune 22, 2015: Dust to Dust
See you in July
A skipped issue, a former editor publishes a book and visitors galore
Posted inJune 22, 2015: Dust to Dust
Reflections on the atomic blast test in Nevada
How the “typical American family” fared in “Doom Town,” 1953.
Posted inJune 22, 2015: Dust to Dust
Photographs of open-air cremation in Colorado
As eco-minded baby boomers age, they’re seeking alternatives to modern funerals.
Posted inJune 22, 2015: Dust to Dust
On lodestones and millstones
Mining made the West, sparking the gold and silver rushes that populated the mountains and shaping the way water is shared, public lands are managed and mineral wealth flows into corporate coffers. It created boomtowns, coal towns and ghost towns. Mining has driven the economy and despoiled the environment ever since the earliest days of […]
Posted inJune 22, 2015: Dust to Dust
Oceanic photos and call to action
Review of ‘The Salish Sea: Jewel of the Pacific Northwest’
Posted inJune 22, 2015: Dust to Dust
Leaked natural gas, oil-price ripple effects and a live HCN forum on public lands management.
Hcn.org news in brief.
Posted inJune 22, 2015: Dust to Dust
Latest: Clean Water Act to protect more waterways
After years of confusion over which waters are protected by the EPA, Waters of the US rule is updated.
Posted inJune 22, 2015: Dust to Dust
Latest: A controversial ski resort proposal gets approval
A Colorado land swap with the Forest Service gives developers a green light.
Posted inJune 22, 2015: Dust to Dust
Durango bear attack, a driver swerves to avoid bees in Montana, Tucson wins worst streets award and more.
Mishaps and mayhem from around the region.
Posted inJune 22, 2015: Dust to Dust
A border crossing gone wrong
Review of ‘The Jaguar’s Children’ by John Vaillant.
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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 […]