Microbes studied as rainmakers.
Agriculture
How the country’s oldest organizing group won COVID-19 relief for undocumented immigrants in California.
A task force addresses weaknesses and inequities in the food system.
Los empacadores de fruta de Washington buscan victorias de largo plazo con las huelgas de la pandemia.
From farm income to carbon sequestration.
When Julene Bair sold the family farm, she severed her lifelong connections with a sense of place and her own childhood.
In some Western states, including Colorado, prison inmates are taking the place of immigrant farmworkers.
Bush Administration tries again to work around Clean Water Act.
The recent expiration of the Secure Rural Schools and Community Self-Determination Act has left western Oregon counties without funds.
Western farmers and ranchers using progressive
land-management techniques can make a few bucks from the new carbon
market – but some critics say it won’t lead to any real
reduction in carbon emissions.
Rancher Mary Flitner visits with some female bovine
friends before going off to have coffee with the human ladies of
Shell, Wyo.
Lisa Upson and Wendy Keefover-Ring believe that Wildlife
Services’ predator control program is ugly, ineffective,
inhumane and indiscriminate.
Bonnie Kline says Wildlife Services, the federal agency in
charge of predator control, helps keep rural economies
alive.
Rebecca Clarren talks to migrant farmworker women about a
threat they face every day in the fields: sexual harassment and
assault by coworkers and bosses.
The fiercely conservative lawyers of the Sagebrush
Rebellion continue to fight against environmental regulations, but
despite all their sound and fury, very little has changed on the
public lands.
Americans may be sentimental about their horses, but
slaughtering unwanted animals with poison is more cruel and a lot
less sensible than using them for horsemeat.
Brian Doyle’s new book, The Grail, lives up to its
lively subtitle as it describes “a year ambling and shambling
through an Oregon vineyard in pursuit of the best pinot noir in the
whole wild world.”
Water efficiency has long been touted as a silver bullet
for the West’s water problems, but too much efficiency can
cause problems of its own, especially in the fragile Colorado River
Delta.
The writer celebrates the harvest and community supported
agriculture
A detailed map shows the work being done on Oregon’s
Whychus Creek to restore instream flows with the cooperation of
local farmers
In his new book, The Worst Hard Time,
Tim Egan interviews survivors to tell the story of the great
American Dust Bowl on the southern Great Plains in the
1930s
In Ogallala Blue: Water and Life on the Great
Plains, William Ashworth examines the effects of
groundwater dependency in a dry land
- Unraveling the mystery of a stolen ceremonial shield
- A Washington town isolated from the U.S. is now cut off from Canada, too
- A wildlife refuge under siege at the border
- As a plague sweeps the land, zealots see a gift from heaven
- New bill would permanently protect 130,000 acres of Montana’s Badger-Two Medicine
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