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THE WORLD IS ALIVE

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

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,”

Photograph by Matt Brezonick

SECRETARY BABBITT’S PROPOSAL MAKES SENSE – WITH A FEW CAVEATS

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

Photograph by David Marston

OPEN EVERYTHING NOW! REALLY?

Sacrifice lives or sacrifice jobs?

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.

DON’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…

Here’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

GRAND 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

WHEN 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?

COVID’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.

WE WILL GET THROUGH THIS

How strange that is – to fight an attacker with solitude.

COVID-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.