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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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OPEN EVERYTHING NOW! REALLY?

By Jerry Brady

Sacrifice lives or sacrifice jobs?

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HERE’S HOW TO SAVE THE COLORADO RIVER

By Bruce Babbitt

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.

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DON’T HURT FARMERS TO SAVE THE COLORADO

By Andy Mueller

No one denies it: Over-consumption of water and extreme drought caused by climate change are realities driving the Colorado River…

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Here’s how to save the Colorado River

By Bruce Babbitt

“By retiring less than 10 per cent of this irrigated acreage from production, we could eliminate the existing million acre-foot overdraft on the Colorado River..”

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