The writer figures out why so many people "top" trees
instead of pruning them
Agriculture
Ranchers must now bring in immigrant sheepherders under permanent visas.
A new book looks at the Golden State’s history to understand its current water crisis.
A United Farm Worker organizer reveals the political strategy behind the scenes.
Farmworker’s Daughter: Growing Up Mexican
in America is the story of Rose Castillo
Guilbault’s childhood journey from Mexico’s Sonoran
Desert to a new life in California’s Salinas Valley
After 16 years of living in the shadows in Pasco, Wash.,
Wendy and Erendira Santana finally win legal residency
The writer likes ethanol, but not when it's made with
corn
More Montana farmers are starting to raise oilseed crops
and produce their own biofuels to save on energy costs
In Yakima County, Wash., the California-based labor
contractor Global Horizons is stirring up controversy among local
Latino farmworkers by bringing in hundreds of guest workers from
Thailand to pick fruit
John Leland’s book, Aliens in the
Backyard, discusses both the dangers and the benefits
arising from the vast number of exotic species in North America
– including human beings
The writer lives near Olympia, Washington, on a mini-farm
her neighbor probably thinks is the real thing
Idaho is weathering the drought by taking a new,
scientific approach to managing water use among its
farmers
Three important "takings" lawsuits claim farmers should be
compensated when water is withheld from irrigators in order to help
endangered species during times of drought
Honeybees are in trouble, and so are the farmers who
depend on them for pollination, especially in California’s
almond orchards
California’s two largest utility companies are
encouraging farmers to switch from polluting diesel irrigation
pumps to electric ones
Only the federal government can find away to protect both
salmon and farmers in the Northwest’s Klamath River
watershed
In Colorado and elsewhere in the West, the fear of West
Nile Virus brings the controversy about spraying pesticides to a
boil
Studies by Montana’s Andrew Hansen and
Colorado’s Rick Knight offer some of the first scientific
evidence that preserving ranch lands provides important benefits to
surrounding ecosystems
Carl Palmer hopes to make his Adobe Ranch in California an
economic success to prove that open space can be financially as
well as environmentally valuable
As private lands become the new frontier in the
West’s wild real estate frenzy, ranchers are turning to land
trusts in places like Gunnison, Colo., to find out how to hold on
to their land and keep it open and undeveloped
Western ranchers rejoice when a federal court jury finds
that the nation’s largest meatpacker, Tyson/IBP, has
illegally squeezed $1.28 billion from independent cattle
producers
Nearly a decade after Imperial Valley irrigators fought
off a water grab by Texans Ed and Lee Bass, the Imperial Valley
Irrigation District buys the old Bass property, Western Farms, and
the water rights that come with it
U.S. District Judge John Coughenour bans the use of 38
pesticides near streams that host endangered runs of salmon and
steelhead in Washington, Oregon and California
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