The recent designation for Browns Canyon has conservation groups ready for more.
How many more monuments will Obama create?
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The liberal’s guide to a chainsaw
Fifteen years ago, I moved my young family from the San Francisco Bay Area to Eugene, Oregon, into a small house with a woodstove. I was excited about heating with wood, and resolved to do it safely. I built a woodshed in the backyard, close to a Doug-fir chopping block. I learned to send split […]
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Jim Deacon, pioneering desert fish biologist, dies
But the concept of saving big places through little animals lives on.
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Westerners who prolonged the shutdown showdown
Congress narrowly averted shutting down the Department of Homeland Security, no thanks to these reps.
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A murky bill for national park waterways
A Yellowstone paddling bill raises hopes, suspicions.
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Washington’s wolverines stage tenuous comeback
The carnivores are recolonizing the northern Cascades, but they face an uncertain climate future.
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KDNK interviews HCN intern Kindra McQuillan about the land transfer movement
A Utah bill could set a precedent for transferring federal lands to state control, if it goes forward.
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The water czar who reshaped Colorado River politics
Las Vegas’ Pat Mulroy initiated an era of deal-making that may buffer against catastrophic drought.
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The downside of densification
As an Arizona resident for more than 30 years, I read “Transportation Transformation” with great interest (HCN, 11/24/15). I applaud the light rail, more bikes and walking. However, I believe there are unacknowledged consequences to the new, denser development. In reality, this push for infill in the center of communities is another building boom to accommodate […]
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Most native tongues of the West are all but lost
A map shows where just over 60 languages remain spoken around the region.
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Latest: New pesticide regulations for Oregon timber companies
Companies must now give officials at least a week’s notice before spraying.
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Latest: California fracking companies inject protected aquifers with wastewater
EPA found that state regulators allowed 2,500 to be contaminated.
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Keeping the dust down in California’s Owens Valley
A civil engineer battles Los Angeles over its air pollution legacy.
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January exodus
HCN’ers get into the backcountry, editor Betsy Marston sees Berlin and art director Cindy Wehling takes a trip to Hawaii.
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Grief’s possible outcomes
Review of ‘The Possibilities’ by Kaui Hart Hemmings.
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Glass half full?
On Jan. 1, I joined 15 friends on a raft trip down the Colorado River through the Grand Canyon. That morning, our boats were covered in snow; the canyon’s red cliffs, capped with white, looked like giant slabs of frosted carrot cake. The ranger said locals had never seen the place so wintry. So we […]
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… on Judith Lewis Mernit’s story, “Why are environmentalists mad at Jerry Brown?” Fred Rinne: “Brown takes big money from the Western States Petroleum Association and will not end fracking in our state. His water plan would, if enacted, wipe out river, estuary and bay ecosystems to benefit a few billionaire agribusiness crooks and developers.” […]
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Beauty and malevolence in Montana
Review of ‘The Ploughmen’ by Kim Zupan.
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Community solar comes of age in the West
A neighborhood solar experiment in Washington gains traction in other states.
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Chronicling the work of an early Native American artist
Review of ‘In Search of Nampeyo: The Early Years, 1875-1892’ by Steve Elmore.