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As investors pay top-dollar for land, farmers are often priced out
July 24, 2024
America is losing farmers. This is the role land values play.
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What a Kamala Harris presidency could mean for the West
July 22, 2024
Harris has prioritized protecting public lands and pursued accountability for polluters, but her track record on tribal affairs is more complex.
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Locals worry flood assistance won’t reach rural and remote Essex County
July 19, 2024
“This is the ruralest part of Vermont, and they don’t know to call 211, they don’t know where to reach out for resources,” one area service provider said. “It’s Vermont pride, too. You know, we kind of suck it up, do it ourselves. We’re not really good at asking for help.”
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Wyoming bans conservation bidders from oil and gas lease sales
July 15, 2024
Wyoming has narrowed its definitions for who can bid on state oil and gas lease parcels, disqualifying parties that intend to conserve the land rather than produce the mineral resources.
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As private interests turn profits on public lands, wildlife and taxpayers pay the price
July 11, 2024
Why does the public put up with corporate welfare, wildlife slaughter and other government policies it so clearly opposes?
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On the Chopping Block
July 10, 2024
The Bureau of Land Management plans to raze 380,000 acres of pinyon-juniper forests vital to Nevada tribes.
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Amid uncertainty about where floods could strike, towns prepare for the worst
July 10, 2024
“We can’t change the river, but we can change how we respond to it,” Waterbury’s municipal manager said.
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Latest map shows drought is mostly gone from Oklahoma’s typically parched panhandle
July 01, 2024
A regional meteorologist with the National Weather Service said the area is usually looking for wetter weather but not in the way it fell this past week because of the flooding and water rescues that followed.
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Nebraska’s Cowboy Trail still incomplete nearly 30 years later
June 28, 2024
The campaign to complete a 17-mile segment between Gordon and Rushville started roughly 20 years after a now-defunct railroad sold hundreds of miles of abandoned rail stretching across northern Nebraska.
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More than 100 Texas counties lack plans to curb damage from natural disasters
June 27, 2024
The plans, which are required by the federal government to access certain grants after a natural disaster, are laborious to assemble — especially for rural counties.
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Teton Pass reopening planned Friday with ‘slow down point’ following highway collapse
June 25, 2024
Workers are paving a detour past the section of the vital Highway 22 between Idaho and Wyoming that a landslide undercut and demolished.
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As Worcester Holdings sprays pines with pesticide, Addison residents call for moratorium
June 22, 2024
But the company isn’t the only one. A Maine Monitor analysis found that five leading conservation groups have registered pesticide applicators on staff.
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Officials worry draft packaging rules will penalize rural communities
June 21, 2024
The rules would reimburse communities at a higher rate for incinerating over landfilling, which some board members argued meant communities in southern Maine with more options and access would get reimbursed at a higher rate than rural areas.
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Wyoming and Utah sue feds to halt controversial ‘conservation rule’
June 19, 2024
Environmental groups hail the measure, which Gov. Gordon says is part of Biden’s attempt to kill Wyoming’s fossil fuel industries.
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Zoning in Huntington held a Vermonter back. So he moved his house to Bolton.
June 19, 2024
The adjacent towns have different land use rules for forested mountain areas. One resident acted on the opportunity.
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