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Death of Utah wolf is collateral damage
Shooting was side-effect of state’s aggressive push to control coyotes
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Is altitude causing suicide in the West?
Researchers find that high elevations may affect our emotions in both good and bad ways
Posted inDecember 22, 2014: The Dust Detectives
Non-native goats in Utah’s La Sal Mountains
How bad are these ungulates for the ecosystem?
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The oil boom hasn’t busted, but it’s straining at the seams
Oil patch communities and states are starting to feel the impacts of sliding prices.
Posted inDecember 8, 2014: The Great Salmon Compromise
A grouse divided
Will new federal protections rescue the Gunnison sage grouse?
Posted inNovember 24, 2014: Transportation Transformation
Latest: New air quality requirements for Utah oil & gas
Operators must install low or no-bleed valves on tanks to curb venting into the air.
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Should the president of the Navajo Nation speak Navajo?
A play-by-play of an election that poses big questions about fluency.
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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
Review of “The Memory of Stone: Meditations on the Canyons of the West”
Photographs from Utah’s Monument Valley to the Petrified Forest.
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The Uintah Basin’s tricky oil and gas ozone problem
Can officials greenlight booming development and clean up the air at the same time?
Posted inOctober 27, 2014: Defuse the West
Western states eye federal lands—again
The ultra-right ‘remedy’ for public lands.
Posted inOctober 13, 2014: Charles Bowden's Fury
Flash flood chaser
One man’s obsession improves forecasting in southern Utah.
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The 21st century’s Hoover Dam?
What a huge Wyoming wind and Utah storage project tell us about the West’s energy landscape.
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Navajo language threatens candidate’s presidential bid
Chris Deschene faces disqualification over lack of fluency.
Posted inSeptember 15, 2014: Books & Essays
How my Californian father adapted to Utah
He found solace in growing fruit trees, but never quite made the Beehive state his home.
Posted inSeptember 1, 2014: Lost in the Woods
On the hunt for fireflies in Utah
Scientists find the flashing bugs after a 30-year search.
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Two political elites prevail in Navajo primary melee
Shirley and Deschene pull ahead of 15 other candidates.
Posted inSeptember 1, 2014: Lost in the Woods
The Latest: Southern Utes make another energy investment
Backstory The Southern Ute Indian Tribe has suffered plenty of historical setbacks; today, however, its 1,400 members are collectively worth billions. In the 1970s, the tribe began taking control of energy profits from its southwestern Colorado reservation, home to one of the country’s richest gas fields. In the 1990s, it formed its own energy company, […]