With the average age of farmers still rising, grants to help out newbies don’t get to the root of the problem.
Agriculture
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Ranch Diaries: A New Mexico cattle company is born
How we decided to start our own business on the Mescalero Apache Reservation.
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A new film tells the story of the Klamath River agreements
Republican lawmaker-turned-filmmaker, Jason Atkinson on why conservation doesn’t have to be a partisan issue.
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Agriculture needs to back up
It’s easy to forget that once upon a time, all agriculture was organic and grassfed. Saving seeds, composting, fertilizing diverse crops with manure, not tilling, and raising livestock entirely on grass was the norm over a century ago. Yet today, these are just the approaches we associate with sustainable food production. We all know what […]
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The state of the ‘radical center’
Courtney White talks about innovative ranching and his new book.
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Range report
What the BLM can (and can’t) tell us about the state of rangeland health.
Posted inDecember 8, 2014: The Great Salmon Compromise
The Latest: Illegal marijuana grows busted in Colorado
The Forest Service seized more than 100,000 plants on public lands.
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When neighbors spray herbicides next to your organic crop
Living together with local resentments in Northern California.
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What 4-H teaches 7 million kids about food
A new book explores what the century-old organization looks like today.
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A new map shows rangeland health West-wide
Searchable BLM reports and satellite images for 20,000 grazing allotments.
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Water use is lower than it’s been in 45 years
U.S. population has grown by 105 million people since 1970, yet we somehow shrank our water footprint.
Posted inNovember 10, 2014: Fallout
The desert-friendly cow
A rancher and a researcher search for a better bovine — and think they’ve found one.
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Timberland herbicide spraying sickens a community
Companies deposit thousands of pounds of herbicides each year on Oregon forests.
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Will California’s Proposition 1 give rise to more dams?
While some environmental groups support the water bond on Tuesday’s ballot, some call it “mystery meat.”
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Dispatch from a young farmers confab
How better dirt can conserve water, save farming and help feed the West.
Posted inOctober 27, 2014: Defuse the West
An expedition along the imperiled Rio Grande
The river’s future may include longer droughts, larger floods and shrinking snowpack.
Posted inOctober 13, 2014: Charles Bowden's Fury
Depression era photos from your hometown
A new Yale project allows viewers to explore 175,000 images by county.
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Colorado’s first legal hemp harvest since 1957 is underway
But a ban on seed transport hampers farmers.
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Colorado’s river economy worth $9 billion
Outdoor recreation businesses say state water plan must do more to protect rivers.