Disease-free animals from Yellowstone get a new home.
Latest: Bison transferred to Fort Peck Indian Reservation
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I hear the train a comin’
I’m not a city person. I live just outside a small town of less than 2,000 souls, and I like its gritty, two-block downtown, where you see your neighbors every time you pick up the mail or buy some dog food; I like the quiet so deep that you can hear the wingbeats of ravens […]
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Gifts — and memories — for the ages
HCN staff and board members on their favorite green holiday gifts.
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Flocks of visitors
Readers visit from Albuquerque, Santa Fe, North Carolina and more.
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Can biomimicry tackle our toughest water problems?
With floating islands and other inventions, eco-entrepreneur Bruce Kania thinks so.
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Blue-eyed boy
Chuck Bowden’s thoughtful side is what I will always remember (“Charles Bowden’s Fury,” HCN, 10/13/14). Arriving with the newspapers on my Sedona porch some 25 years ago, just when sunlight was sneaking through early morning clouds, was an unexpected visitor. Standing there was a hefty man, ruggedly handsome, in a windblown sort of way, dressed in […]
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A poetic search for a lost father
Review of ‘Crow Blue’ Adriana Lisboa.
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For climate activists, a bright spot in a dismal election
Environmentalists in the Pacific Northwest may lead the way.
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Compromise on Colorado’s Roan Plateau
Industry and conservationists reach a deal to protect tens of thousands of acres.
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Commission to decide on Gila River’s fate
Approval for a diversion expected Monday despite broad criticism.
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Should the president of the Navajo Nation speak Navajo?
A play-by-play of an election that poses big questions about fluency.
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Relearning history in all its complexity
Remember that fourth-grade Thanksgiving pageant, the big feast with Indians providing most of the food? Squanto was there, kindly teaching the Pilgrims how to put a fish in a hole to grow corn and beans and squash. Somehow I don’t remember learning that Squanto — more properly “Tisquantum”— was taken to England and then abducted […]
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Wyoming grapples with how to fund wildlife conservation
Hunters may lose influence as other groups are asked to increase their contributions.
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Giving thanks and looking forward
With Thanksgiving near, it’s the season to be grateful and take stock of our situation. In that spirit, here’s some of what I’ve been thinking about. First, as we conclude our celebration of the golden anniversary of the Wilderness Act, let’s give a cheer to the 88th U.S. Congress, which, in 1964, passed the law […]
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Virus implicated in starfish wasting disease
A team of scientists have figured out what’s killing West Coast sea stars, but bigger mysteries remain.
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We can do our part to defuse the West
The following is just a sample of what public-land managers have encountered while on the job in the last few years: On a dirt road in Arizona, a man who was paranoid about the federal government aimed a rifle at federal rangers and opened fire. In California, a shooter targeted a firefighter in a national […]
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Landscape-scale conservation gains ground
The Nature Conservancy just announced its largest Washington land purchase to date.
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Residential wells run completely dry in the Central Valley
The drought is not an abstract threat for families in Porterville, California.
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Gunnison sage grouse gets divisive ‘threatened’ listing
The decision upsets enviros and industry alike.
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Just call John Hickenlooper the Silver Fox
John Hickenlooper, the recently re-elected (by a whisker) governor of Colorado, should be called the new “silver fox” for his work on water sharing, in memory of Delphus Carpenter, who earned that title back in 1922. That year, Carpenter cajoled seven Western states into signing the historic agreement that divvied up the Colorado River. Hickenlooper […]