Chaco Culture National Park is under siege
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It is not an exaggeration to say that New Mexico’s Chaco Culture National Historical Park is under siege. A surge…
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Gated methane vent pad in Sunshine Roadless area above Paonia, CO. Methane originates in active Arch Resources coal mine. This collection of vents makes Arch the third biggest greenhouse gas polluter in Colorado.
MoreWhen immortals die
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Giant sequoias come as close to immortality as living organisms can. Many live over a thousand years despite nature’s challenges. So…
MoreThe West badly needs a restoration economy
By Jonathan Thompson
“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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