A Move Toward Water Speculation
“Just talking about demand management has already attracted deep-pocketed investors..”
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MoreWyoming Needs to Bite the Bullet
“Sundance, Wyoming, is considering axing its entire police force because they can’t pay for it.”
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MoreLiving with Evacuation, Smoke and Helicopters
“Wouldn’t it be a miracle if the whole damn world banded together and realized climate change was the number one priority?”
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MoreThe Complexity of Color in the Environmental Movement
This summer was a time of reckoning about race in every sector of American life, and many of us are…
MoreThe West’s Population Grows and Churns
“Americans are still mobile and still moving West..”
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MoreFanning the Flames of Hate in Oregon
“The present we are now enduring is the climate-change future that we have been warned about for decades.”
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MoreHouses Must be Built to Withstand Wildfire
That the scene has become familiar makes it no less wrenching: A distraught couple searches through the ash, char, and…
U.S. Forest Service Photo 2007. Grass Valley Fire in Southern California’s San Bernadino Mountains
MoreA Clear Warning About the Colorado River
For the West this summer, the news about water was grim. In some parts of California, it didn’t rain for…
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MoreThese Fires will Happen Again and Again
“This pattern of build-and-burn will continue..”
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MoreCovid-19 And Recreation: Too Much Poop, Too Many People
“Though conservation groups continue to point fingers at logging, mining and ranching, they’ve been slow to acknowledge impacts from outdoor recreation.”
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MoreA Goldmine by a Salmon Fishery is a Terrible Idea
The Bristol Bay salmon fishery is a renewable resource; the legacy of the Pebble Mine promises perpetual pollution
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MoreSchool + Pandemic = High Anxiety
“Before opening those classrooms to the lion that lurks inside, let’s ask ourselves one last time: Whose life is it worth? “
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