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If the Water Goes, the Desert Moves in

By Dave Marston

“Without water, you’ve got nothing around here.”

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The wall with Mexico will come tumbling down

By Gary Paul Nabhan

But one needs to read only a bit of world history to realize that walls can come down as a quickly as they were put up.

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The Bomb and Me, 75 Years Later

By Paul Krza

“my face received about a hundred times more radiation than Japanese nuke bomb”

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Climbing Walls While Sitting in a Chair

By W.S. Robinson

Suddenly tears flowed. “Geez, you could say I squashed a bug.”

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We Either Lie About Them or Omit Them

By Rich Wandschneider

And, according to Indian friends, there are strong tribal memories of the devastating 1918 flu

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WILDFIRE IS MEANER THESE DAYS

By Stephen Pyne

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

By Wayne Hare

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

By 'Asta Bowen

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

By Patty Limerick

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

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THE WORLD IS ALIVE

By Pepper Trail

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

By Dave Marston

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

By Denise Fort

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

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The Park Record, Park City, UT

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