Water supplies and drought outlooks are grim in most Western states.
New Mexico
Posted inMarch 16, 2015: Wild Ride
Lessons from boom and bust in New Mexico
What we can learn from the oil and gas roller coaster ride in Farmington and beyond.
Posted inMarch 16, 2015: Wild Ride
The woman who brings drinking water to remote Navajo homes
In the parched countryside, delivery means community.
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Ranch Diaries: Purchasing cattle, writing the business plan
How and when we expect to see returns on our investment.
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Don’t expect oil prices to rebound anytime soon
Global forces conspire to keep energy prices low, for better and worse.
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Ranch Diaries: Why we manage our cattle horseback
Rough terrain and big country make horses an ideal way to manage for gentle cattle.
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Ranch Diaries: A New Mexico cattle company is born
How we decided to start our own business on the Mescalero Apache Reservation.
Posted inFebruary 16, 2015: Chainsaw Diplomacy
The Latest: New Mexico fracking ban overturned
A win for industry in the nation’s first county to ban the practice.
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An experiment in privatizing public land fails after 14 years
It is no secret that some state legislators in the West want to boot federal land management agencies from their states. They argue that agencies like the Bureau of Land Management and Forest Service cost too much and are too detached from local values, and that states could make money by running our vast open […]
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Dry January means more drought across West
After a rainy December, many states now have lower-than-normal snowpacks.
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New snarl for proposed transmission line in the Southwest
In less than a week, SunZia had solved one problem just in time to encounter another.
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Wildlife-shooting contests are unjustified
On the first day of 2015, a photo appeared on the front page of the Albuquerque Journal, showing a solemn-looking man standing in the desert near Las Cruces, New Mexico. He was looking at dozens of dead coyotes spread out on the ground around him. The man in the photo was me, and the 39 […]
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When the atmosphere ‘goes bananas,’ wildfires do too
2011’s huge wildfires and what they portend. Spoiler: More dead trees.
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Will endangered species status help the Mexican gray wolf?
Rare subspecies barely hangs on in the Southwest.
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Is altitude causing suicide in the West?
Researchers find that high elevations may affect our emotions in both good and bad ways
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The state of the ‘radical center’
Courtney White talks about innovative ranching and his new book.
Posted inDecember 22, 2014: The Dust Detectives
A question of fluency on the Navajo Nation
A cultural debate leaves the presidency in limbo.
Posted inDecember 22, 2014: The Dust Detectives
Photographs of New Mexicans spanning 20 years
Review of “Taos Portraits: Photos by Paul O’Connor.”
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The oil boom hasn’t busted, but it’s straining at the seams
Oil patch communities and states are starting to feel the impacts of sliding prices.
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Killings by cops are much more common in Western states
Arrest-related death rates are highest in New Mexico, with Nevada and Oregon close behind.