I never understood how we have planning commissions and they let developers build in forested areas without clearing fire-safe areas around developments (“Smoke and mirrors,” HCN, 9/1/14). People that build like this should have to pay an exorbitant amount for fire insurance. Same goes for building in the river bottom and on avalanche terrain. The […]
Fires, grazing and logging
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The Latest: Feds pay final installments of $3.4 million settlement to Native Americans
The Cobell case paid mineral royalties long due to tribal members.
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Fathomable journalism
LoMonaco’s feature article is why HCN is one of only two publications that I loyally subscribe to. LoMonaco’s in-depth reporting is an example of excellent journalism. She unsnarls a monumentally complicated issue and makes it interesting and understandable, if not fathomable, to a general reader like me. Not many journalists go to as much trouble […]
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On the edge with Edward Abbey, Charles Ives and the outlaws
One of Charles Bowden’s last essays.
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Bowden the half-mad hiker
The iconic Southwest writer brought minimal gear but loads of reading material on the trail.
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Adiós Charles Bowden
The writer passed away in Las Cruces, New Mexico, on Aug. 30.
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Charles Bowden’s Fury
The Southwest loses its strongest voice.
Posted inOctober 13, 2014: Charles Bowden's Fury
Bowden the half-mad hiker
The iconic Southwest writer brought minimal gear but loads of reading material on the trail.
Posted inOctober 13, 2014: Charles Bowden's Fury
“If there’s squash bugs in heaven, I ain’t staying” by Stacia Spragg-Braude
If there’s squash bugs in heaven, I ain’t staying Stacia Spragg-Braude, 200 pages, hardcover: $29.95 Museum of New Mexico Press, 2013 Nestled amid the orchards of New Mexico’s Rio Grande Valley is the old farming village of Corrales, where 85-year-old Evelyn Losack harvests fruit on land that has been in her family for 150 years. […]
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An urban experience
Fall board meeting, a new employee, and another science writing award for HCN.
Posted inOctober 13, 2014: Charles Bowden's Fury
Adiós Charles Bowden
The writer passed away in Las Cruces, New Mexico, on Aug. 30.
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Flash flood chaser
One man’s obsession improves forecasting in southern Utah.
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NASA finds methane hot spot over Four Corners
The culprit is the extensive fossil fuel industry infrastructure, not just fracking or coal mines.
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For the first time in a decade, Alaskan oil heads for Asia
Amid energy boom in lower 48, Alaska looks to sell its oil overseas.
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Navajo ranching in the Chuska Mountains
Keeping a tradition alive in western New Mexico.
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About the price of oil
Since rig counts follow oil prices, the current slump will hurt Western economies.
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The walrus detectives
What’s behind the Alaska walrus haul-outs? Everyone’s calling climate change, but the truth is, we don’t know.
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Solar in the desert finally gets some scrutiny
Interior Secretary Sally Jewell came to California’s Mojave Desert this September to announce a multi-agency effort to boost renewable energy development in the desert. But first, she had to go on a hike. “We went out into the Big Morongo Preserve,” she told reporters. “Fifteen, 20 minutes from here, there are wetlands. Wetlands, and 254 […]