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.
MoreDON’T HURT FARMERS TO SAVE THE COLORADO
No one denies it: Over-consumption of water and extreme drought caused by climate change are realities driving the Colorado River…
MoreHere’s how to save the Colorado River
“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..”
Photo by John Gibbons, from Unsplash
MoreGRAND 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.
Photograph by Marjorie “Slim” Woodruff
MoreWHEN 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?
MoreCOVID’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.
MoreWE WILL GET THROUGH THIS
How strange that is – to fight an attacker with solitude.
MoreCOVID-19 PANDEMIC ILLUSTRATES IDAHO’S SPLIT PERSONALITY
On the one hand there’s the spirit of cooperation and belief that government can help, on the other there’s outright contempt for anything governmental.
MoreIT’S TIME FOR WYOMING TO FACE THE TRUTH
What some in Wyoming might consider discrimination, others might cite fighting for their lives in the face of sea-level rise and deadly wildfires.
Photograph by AJ Nash
MoreA DEPRESSED TOWN FIGHTS BACK
This is a place that knows the pain of an industry cutting back.
Photograph by Jeffrey Beall, Flickr
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