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Can ice climbing bring life to an isolated Colorado town in the dead of winter?
April 18, 2024
Lake City’s ice-climbing park is transforming the local economy.
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Wenatchi-P’squosa people demonstrate against proposed solar project
April 05, 2024
The Badger Mountain development in eastern Washington threatens cultural resources including Indigenous food and sacred sites on the mountain.
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The culling of Alaska’s bears and wolves
January 18, 2024
As the state’s wildlife numbers decline, predators are getting the blame. The true threat is much more complex.
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An Alaska Native mutual aid network tackles the climate crisis
January 01, 2024
The Smokehouse Collective invests in “our resilience as Native peoples to persevere in our cultures despite the global impacts we are facing.”
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The New Mexico co-op breaking up with fossil fuels
January 01, 2024
An 80-year-old electricity supplier goes all in on decarbonization. Unlike investor-owned utilities, which are controlled by shareholders, rural distribution co-ops answer to the households and businesses that use the energy.
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The Endangered Species Act’s complicated legacy in Indian Country
December 01, 2023
The landmark law has served as both sword and shield.
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Has Montana solved its housing crisis?
November 20, 2023
A spate of new state laws will spur housing development. Will anyone be able to afford what’s getting built?
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When burn scars become roaring earthen rivers
November 01, 2023
Geologists in Washington are monitoring scorched forest to help create a better warning system for deadly debris flows.
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States opposed tribes’ access to the Colorado River 70 years ago. History is repeating itself.
October 17, 2023
Records shed new light on states’ vocal opposition in the 1950s to tribes claiming their share of the river.
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BLM has a plan to tackle booming recreation — at least in theory
September 08, 2023
The agency is taking a hard look at how to protect land and wildlife while welcoming ever more visitors.
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The long tail of toxic emissions on the Navajo Nation
August 30, 2023
Communities contend with ongoing air quality issues tied to gas and oil wells.
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How climate science won in the Montana youth climate case
August 18, 2023
The ruling in Held v. Montana is expected to bolster cases in other states with similar environmental protections in their constitutions.
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Oregon’s Greater Idaho movement echoes a long history of racism in the region
August 01, 2023
Instead of fixing Oregon, the Greater Idaho movement seeks to leave it. White supremacists are on board.
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In the Utah desert, can golf justify itself?
July 31, 2023
The struggle for water is straining St. George, Utah, where golf – and grass – are sacred cows. The Dixie Red Hills golf course was the first to arrive in St. George in 1965. Now, there are 14 in this remote corner of southwest Utah, drinking up 13% of the municipal water supply.
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The case of the Colorado River’s missing water
July 21, 2023
Researchers are trying to unravel the mystery of snow that falls but never shows up in the river.
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