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Let’s Not Squander the Miracle of Yellowstone

Photo credit Doug Smith, National Park Service

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

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