Plus, readers’ favorite books about the region.
Best little bookstores of the West
Posted inSeptember 15, 2014: Books & Essays
Beauty and chaos, standing together
Review of ‘The Carry Home; Lessons from the American Wilderness’ by Gary Ferguson.
Posted inSeptember 15, 2014: Books & Essays
An author’s West of dreams and nightmares
Malcolm Brooks mingles romanticism with pragmatic realities.
Posted inSeptember 15, 2014: Books & Essays
Ag water in context
I believe it is important to consider the term “consumptive water use” in this context (“How much water goes into your food?” HCN, 4/18/14). This short piece by Sarah Tory provides some insightful information, but perhaps casts a shadow on an industry that constantly must explain and defend itself, often to no avail. Irrigated agriculture […]
Posted inSeptember 15, 2014: Books & Essays
A new century with carnivores
Learning to see predators as companions, not competition.
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Best little bookstores of the West
Plus, readers’ favorite books about the region.
Posted inSeptember 15, 2014: Books & Essays
Forgetting we live in the desert
Rafael de Grenade on tough landscapes, writing as inquiry and climate change.
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Rural and small town employment still lags
Metro areas are bouncing back from the Great Recession more quickly.
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Fur flies over Montana bobcat farm
Will animal rights activists keep a bobcat farmer from setting up shop in Montana?
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Sweeping new rule for Alaska’s predator control
Federal versus state wildlife politics get even hotter.
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Former governor Tony Knowles on Alaska’s predator policies
During his 1994 to 2002 tenure, former Democratic Alaska governor Tony Knowles implemented non-lethal — albeit expensive — ways to control predator populations in Alaska: Instead of shooting wolves from helicopters, for example, he relocated and sterilized packs that preyed on the caribou herds Alaskans relied on for food. Since he’s left office, though, the […]
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Congress ignores the West’s firefighting needs
Congress still hasn’t figured out how to pay for wildfires. Choked by partisan bickering and entrenched refusals to compromise, the 113th Congress has passed the fewest pieces of legislation of any Congress in the past two decades — just 108 significant laws, compared to nearly 170 per session from 1995 to 2010. One of the […]
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Hurdles mount for Northwest coal exports
How high are the stakes for Western coal producers?
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Two flat tires on the sage grouse express
Some interests potentially inconvenienced by the Endangered Species Act are so terrified of the law that it often succeeds best when threatened but not invoked. So it may be with ongoing efforts to save the greater sage grouse. In 2011, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service gave states, private landowners, the Forest Service and the […]
Posted inSeptember 1, 2014: Lost in the Woods
When is lightning likely?
The National Weather Service’s new lightning potential index.
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A conversation with Chuck Bowden from 2002
The late writer discusses the ‘cannibalism of society’ and other ills.
Posted inSeptember 1, 2014: Lost in the Woods
On the hunt for fireflies in Utah
Scientists find the flashing bugs after a 30-year search.
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Nevada wins the Tesla battery factory giga-race
Massive incentive package raises questions about corporate welfare.
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Ruling green lights temporary nuclear waste storage
With no central underground depository, above-ground casks will have to do.