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WILDFIRE IS MEANER THESE DAYS

As I look out my window, the smoke from the Bush fire is belching upward behind the fabled profile of…

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AIN’T NONE OF US CAN BREATH

How do you explain racism when it is so subtle and ingrained that it became invisible to white people generations ago?

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LOOKING HATE IN THE EYES IN WHITEFISH

He would constantly remind us that ‘no matter the threat, always look them in the eye so they have to acknowledge you’re human.

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MY HEROES HAVE ALWAYS BEEN RODEO CLOWNS

When all hell breaks loose and disorder rules, rodeo clowns stay self-possessed and focused.

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THE WORLD IS ALIVE

Climate change and the conversion of wild ecosystems, if unchecked, threaten to collapse the global bounty of “nature’s services.”

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ALMOST 70 WHEN THE VIRUS ENDED HIS JOB

Brezonick knows that the huge furnaces that burn coal are closing fast. “I don’t think coal will recover and society has turned against it,”

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SECRETARY BABBITT’S PROPOSAL MAKES SENSE – WITH A FEW CAVEATS

The real obstacle to Babbitt’s proposal springs from our romanticized vision of what agriculture looks like in the West.

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OPEN EVERYTHING NOW! REALLY?

Sacrifice lives or sacrifice jobs?

HERE’S HOW TO SAVE THE COLORADO RIVER

With this precedent, it’s time to create an Irrigation Reserve Program. To work, it must be voluntary, and farmers who participate must be adequately paid for the use of their irrigation rights.

GRAND CANYON TAKES A BREAK FROM THE CROWDS

To reach any national park in the West, people have to travel. Travel is risky and helps spread the virus.

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WHEN GETTING BACK TO NORMAL ISN’T NORMAL

What if things get worse? What if things really fail and there is a food shortage? Do any of us know how to provide for ourselves?

COVID’S KILLING THE OIL INDUSTRY, AND IT MAY NOT COME BACK

Cracks began to appear in the hydrocarbon-bubble years ago and in the months prior to the arrival of the coronavirus a breakdown appeared imminent.