What really affects hunting in the West
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A disgruntled hunter wrote a Writers on the Range opinion recently about Westerners getting fed up with the many out-of-staters…
MoreThe West badly needs a restoration economy
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“Restoration work is not fixing beautiful machinery … It is accepting an abandoned responsibility,”
Photograph courtesy of Allan Nash, open pit coal mine in Wyoming’s Powder River Basin
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“Eighty-five percent of grazing lands — think sagebrush steppe or high desert landscapes — are not suitable for any other type of food production”
Photograph by Angela Mulligan, Courtesy of Unsplash
MoreSECRETARY BABBITT’S PROPOSAL MAKES SENSE – WITH A FEW CAVEATS
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The real obstacle to Babbitt’s proposal springs from our romanticized vision of what agriculture looks like in the West.
Photograph by David Marston
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