Will new pricing models be the answer to both revenue problems and water waste?
As water demand slows, utilities seek new solutions
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Rants from the Hill: An Assay on Old Lang Syne Peak
Taking a right gude willie waught for the turning year.
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New cloud seeding study from Wyoming
Research renews the debate about whether scientists can really make more rain.
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Your best Heard Around the West photos
Editor picks of readers’ weirdest, most amazing images from the past five years.
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New law protects Alaska Native women
The ability to prosecute domestic violence may be the first step toward creating Indian Country in Alaska.
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Regulators dampen hopes for tribal solar project
The Moapa Solar Energy Center would have provided 175 megawatts to Nevada’s largest utility.
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Montana mycologist fights fungus with fungus
To save whitebark pines, apply slippery jack.
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Aquifer recharging can help stanch drought
Oregon is successfully capturing runoff to underground storage.
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The Latest: Protective settlement reached for Roan Plateau
Industry and environmentalists compromised on the embattled Colorado mesa.
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The Latest: EPA released final cleanup order for Duwamish River
A million cubic yards of toxic sludge will be dredged from Seattle’s only river.
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The dust detectives
Scientists are closer than ever to understanding how microscopic airborne particles shape the Earth, and the West.
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Six decades of river exploration
Review of “Downstream Toward Home” by Oliver A. Houck.
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Shards of hope in the Mojave
Review of “29” by Mary Sojourner.
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Photographs of New Mexicans spanning 20 years
Review of “Taos Portraits: Photos by Paul O’Connor.”
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Of time and wounds
Willows are pioneers of raw, moist habitats (“Have returning wolves really saved Yellowstone?” HCN, 12/8/14). Except for the few, but often common, species capable of vegetative reproduction, dense grasses are anathema to willow spread, and young plants grow fastest. The story of moisture-loving riparian species, such as willows and sedges, catching sediments is writ large […]
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Non-native goats in Utah’s La Sal Mountains
How bad are these ungulates for the ecosystem?
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Hunting for scorpions
Seeking one of Earth’s most ancient land invertebrates.
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Holiday publishing break
Welcome new employees, and farewell Martin Litton
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Grinchosaurus in Utah, an exchange of letters with Wendell Berry and more.
Mishaps and mayhem from around the region.
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Game of drones
Nevada looks to the boom in unmanned aerial vehicles for an economic boost.