Industry and conservationists reach a deal to protect tens of thousands of acres.
Colorado
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Gunnison sage grouse gets divisive ‘threatened’ listing
The decision upsets enviros and industry alike.
Posted inNovember 10, 2014: Fallout
A young mule stringer helps keep a dying profession alive
Mules are still needed to carry supplies in wild, roadless mountains.
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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 27, 2014: Defuse the West
The lost navigator
Before Parkinson’s, my father never needed to consult a road map.
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Outside spending soars in the West’s key Senate races
Colorado and Alaska have the most expensive midterm battles in the region.
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How to pass a wilderness bill in 2014
Lessons from southwest Colorado’s Hermosa Creek.
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From the Tipi to the Tesla
Activist Winona LaDuke on environmental justice and foregoing unclean technology.
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Extreme Makeover, the BLM episode
How a gigantic federal bureaucracy is positioning itself to manage resources at a “landscape” level.
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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.
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Can Hickenlooper get his middle-of-the-road magic back?
The Colorado governor has Democratic politicians calmed and fractivists pissed.
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A public land swap for the rich
As a deal gets sweetened, how do you measure what’s fair?
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Is Denver the Houston of the Rockies — again?
Even greenie hotspots get their economic mojo from fossil fuels.
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A cyclist’s plea to motorists
Cars are a deadly weapon and drivers need to take care.
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War of the words
New oil and gas ‘codebook’ aims to help the public muddle through the fracking debate
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Manmade quakes shake the Southwest
Tremors in Colorado and New Mexico linked to coalbed methane extraction.
Posted inSeptember 1, 2014: Lost in the Woods
When is lightning likely?
The National Weather Service’s new lightning potential index.