Where the mines once provided steady employment, solar energy now offers jobs for the next generation.
Colorado
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Decision to relocate BLM’s headquarters under investigation
‘If this administration is confident the move is defensible,’ Democrats say, the Government Accountability Office ‘should have no problem confirming it.’
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Colorado climate activists protest by spreading disinformation
But will the prank tactics ultimately damage their cause?
Posted inDecember 9, 2019: Party Favors
The penetrable wall; baffling thievery; unretiring outdoors
Mishaps and mayhem from around the region.
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Una comunidad indÃgena de México encuentra su hogar en los campos de Colorado
La cultura, las costumbres y las personas están cruzando las fronteras y alimentando dos economÃas.
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How not to fight a fire
Will we learn to confront an existential threat to the West for what it is?
Posted inNovember 11, 2019: Storied Landscapes
The case against immigration prisons
Law professor César Cuauhtémoc GarcÃa Hernández analyzes why America puts so many immigrants behind bars.
Posted inOctober 28, 2019: Where Hunting Still Has Meaning
Skoolies; preservation vs. profit; forest therapy
Mishaps and mayhem from around the region.
Posted inOctober 28, 2019: Where Hunting Still Has Meaning
Faced with chronic wasting disease, what’s a hunting family to do?
Hunters are critical for game management, but the spread of CWD means some may put down the rifle.
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No relief from fracking industry on Colorado’s Front Range
Advocates hope new laws will bring changes, but they aren’t seeing much yet.
Posted inOctober 14, 2019: Severed Ties
Packing heat; a ministeroni; wipes frenzy
Mishaps and mayhem from around the region.
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Ancestral remains to be returned to Navajo and Hopi nations
Finland will repatriate more than 600 items to 26 tribes.
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Gunnison sage grouse are vulnerable to climate chaos
The dancing birds are especially susceptible to changing weather patterns, which is bad news going forward.
Posted inOctober 28, 2019: Where Hunting Still Has Meaning
The Klamath River now has the legal rights of a person
A Yurok Tribe resolution allows cases to be brought on behalf of the river as a person in tribal court.
Posted inOctober 14, 2019: Severed Ties
How BLM employees really feel about moving West
Leaked audio from a recent agency meeting is filled with fumbles by leadership, disapproving rumbles and derisive laughter from staff.
Posted inSeptember 16, 2019: "We can either wait on Mother Nature – or we can give it a shot ourselves."
Official invocations; not dead yet; ancient tattooing
Mishaps and mayhem from around the region.
Posted inSeptember 16, 2019: "We can either wait on Mother Nature – or we can give it a shot ourselves."
A water ‘win-win’ in Colorado? Not so fast.
A plan to export water from the San Luis Valley to the Denver Metro area is met with defiance.
Posted inSeptember 16, 2019: "We can either wait on Mother Nature – or we can give it a shot ourselves."
Colorado farmers fight to save their water and their community’s future
‘We can either wait on Mother Nature — or we can give it a shot ourselves.’
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Tinder meets tremors as Western tarantulas look for love
Males will travel in numbers, dance hypnotically and get eaten during their annual hunt to mate.
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Dozens of former BLM officials denounce moving headquarters out of D.C.
‘You’re setting up the BLM for failure.’