West’s biggest water agencies finalize a major agreement to boost Lake Mead levels.
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Posted inDecember 8, 2014: The Great Salmon Compromise
A fix for the desert tortoise
Prolific pets continue to threaten their wild cousins.
Posted inArticles
The linchpin to a national supergrid
Clovis, New Mexico, may link three grids and become a renewable energy hub.
Posted inArticles
New Mexico commission votes to divert Gila River
Decision greenlights contentious multi-million dollar diversion project.
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Commission to decide on Gila River’s fate
Approval for a diversion expected Monday despite broad criticism.
Posted inNovember 10, 2014: Fallout
Review of “The Memory of Stone: Meditations on the Canyons of the West”
Photographs from Utah’s Monument Valley to the Petrified Forest.
Posted inNovember 10, 2014: Fallout
The desert-friendly cow
A rancher and a researcher search for a better bovine — and think they’ve found one.
Posted inOctober 27, 2014: Defuse the West
An expedition along the imperiled Rio Grande
The river’s future may include longer droughts, larger floods and shrinking snowpack.
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. […]
Posted inOctober 13, 2014: Charles Bowden's Fury
Charles Bowden’s Fury
The Southwest loses its strongest voice.
Posted inOctober 13, 2014: Charles Bowden's Fury
Adiós Charles Bowden
The writer passed away in Las Cruces, New Mexico, on Aug. 30.
Posted inOctober 13, 2014: Charles Bowden's Fury
On the edge with Edward Abbey, Charles Ives and the outlaws
One of Charles Bowden’s last essays.
Posted inOctober 13, 2014: Charles Bowden's Fury
On the edge with Edward Abbey, Charles Ives and the outlaws
One of Charles Bowden’s last essays.
Posted inArticles
After 11 years, Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument reopens
Increased border security means that all 517 square miles are again open to the public.
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Manmade quakes shake the Southwest
Tremors in Colorado and New Mexico linked to coalbed methane extraction.
Posted inArticles
Diversion plans for the Gila would have major impact, critics say
Small and medium-sized flows could be most affected.
Posted inSeptember 1, 2014: Lost in the Woods
Lost in the woods
How the Forest Service is botching its biggest restoration project.
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New Mexico delays controversial Gila vote
Many unanswered questions remain about proposals to divert the state’s last undammed major river.
Posted inGoat
Summer rains in a drought-plagued state
How much does a monsoon season relieve drought?
Posted inGoat
Imminent tar sands mine incites civil disobedience in Utah
Two years ago, HCN contributing editor Jeremy Miller asked if Utah’s tar sands deposits could transform the Beehive State into the Alberta of the high desert. Jeremy’s story focused on a mine proposed by U.S. Oil Sands, a Canadian company, in the Book Cliffs south of Vernal. It’s long been known that eastern Utah’s geological […]