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An Idaho congressman aims to dump dams

By Rocky Barker

Rep. Mike Simpson is a conservative Republican from Idaho whose concept of wildness in the 1990s was going into the…

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Pumping iron became my armor

By Crista Worthy

“Within two months I was getting muscles. I have never been harassed since.”

Photograph of Crista Worth in competition shape, courtesy of Crista Worthy

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Sometimes, poison is the only thing that works

By Ted Williams

The ashy storm-petrel, threatened by mice on the Farallon Islands.

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The West badly needs a restoration economy

By Jonathan Thompson

“Restoration work is not fixing beautiful machinery … It is accepting an abandoned responsibility,”

Photograph courtesy of Allan Nash, open pit coal mine in Wyoming’s Powder River Basin

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Billionaire mine owner leaves a tiny town in the lurch

By Dave Marston

“..a visitor to the town notices abandoned cars parked willy-nilly and piles of junk that look as old as the town itself. “

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“Gun nut” has a warning

By Brian Sexton

“The so-called patriots of today risk the very rights they’ve pledged to uphold with their lives.”

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“Look at me” culture leaves too many marks

By Marjorie “Slim” Woodruff

“The pioneers endured drought, famine, disease, and death in order to reach the West and scratch their names on the wall.”

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Conservative Republican has a personal mission

By Ron Keine

“I’m living proof of why people should not trust their government with the death penalty”

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All-electric is the way to go

By Auden Schendler Ted White

“But perhaps the most challenging task of all is to decarbonize buildings.”

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Who Calls the Shots on the Colorado River?

By Dave Marston

Once you pay for fallowed fields, you’ll end up with landowners who are investors first, like Water Asset Management.

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Like it or not, We Learned a Few Things

By 'Asta Bowen

“2020 put the lie to the notion that we are in charge.”

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When Water Dries Up, It Can Be Deadly

By Pepper Trail

“The dams that choke the Klamath River may be finally nearing removal”

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Ric Anderson, Editorial Page Editor
Las Vegas Sun, Las Vegas, NV

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