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Posted inMay 15, 2017: Prison Town
Suburbanites reckon with arcane drilling law
On Colorado’s Front Range, companies can extract oil and gas from private land — without homeowners’ permission.
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Jury deliberates in 2014 Bundy standoff trial
Cliven Bundy’s sway over his followers featured prominently in first of three trials.
Posted inMay 1, 2017: Change Comes to Short Creek
Latest: Mixed progress for Park Service on harassment
Interior Department clears former Yosemite superintendent of discrimination — and reports evidence for sexual harassment at Yellowstone.
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A conversation with Obama’s top Interior lawyer
A look at how the department has changed its relationships with tribes, and at legal battles on the horizon.
Posted inMay 15, 2017: Prison Town
A tribe wins rights to contested groundwater in court
A major federal court decision acknowledges that tribes have priority rights to groundwater — and could limit how much other users can take.
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California’s backcountry drug war
Dangerous drug cartels are growing pot on public lands—putting wildlife, water supplies, and outdoor enthusiasts at grave risk.
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West Obsessed: How Forest Service agents busted a maple-poaching gang
The writers and editors of High Country News discuss Washington’s timber crime.
Posted inApril 3, 2017: Firestorm
Latest: At Hanford, allegations of worker intimidation
The Superfund site has been in clean-up since 1989.
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Oil expected in Dakota Access Pipeline this week
What ongoing legal battles tell us about protections for religious freedoms and government consultation with tribes.
Posted inMarch 20, 2017: The Tree Ring
Busting the tree ring
How a landmark investigation unraveled a Washington timber-poaching gang.
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Western court in the crosshairs again
The 9th Circuit Court rules against Trump, and a debate to break it up reignites.
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In Colorado, a little shop of wildlife horrors
Taxidermy provides clues about smuggling trends.
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Standing Rock is history repeating itself
We need to come to terms with our past and present treatment of tribes.
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The Western origins of the sanctuary movement
Churches in the West are once again at the forefront of a grassroots effort to save immigrants from deportation.
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The Malheur Refuge trials are over, but the movement that led to them isn’t.
Four defendants receive guilty verdicts, ending a yearlong drama.
Posted inMay 1, 2017: Change Comes to Short Creek
Republicans push to split the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals
Bills to break up the big Western court have reappeared in Congress.
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A way of unforgetting
Author Lauret Savoy on tracing personal and national history through landscapes.
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EPA cuts will hit minority communities hardest
Trump proposes an end to the office that protects low-income areas from pollution.