If you care about protecting clean water, endangered species and public health, then you might want to consider legalizing marijuana for recreational use. That’s because so much of the stuff is now being grown illegally on our public lands in places dubbed “trespass grows.” These secretive and often well-guarded farms do enormous environmental damage and […]
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A little paddling won’t hurt the Yellowstone experience
RELATED: Paddling bill is bad news for Yellowstone and Grand Teton parks If we’ve gained any strength as environmentalists, it’s because we’ve stuck to science and public processes. The other stuff is for the bad guys who want to exploit public land for profit. As a longtime activist on forest issues, I could give you […]
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Paddling bill is bad news for Yellowstone and Grand Teton parks
How boaters are looking for special treatment.
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Does Juneau in Southeast Alaska really need this highway?
A proposed road is destructive, dangerous and bound to be ridiculously costly.
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Don’t call the desert empty
In the spareness of a desert hike, you become a Beckett character, faced with big space and big time” — Laurie Stone. I write for a living, or what amounts to it, and because I’m a dreamer and a fool and one of the luckiest people I know, I also edit a literary magazine dedicated […]
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The tortoise is collateral damage in the Mojave Desert
Large solar arrays can harm threatened species.
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When poisoning is the solution
A victory for an endangered fish, though some environmentalists fought hard to prevent it.
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Let’s not bring Las Vegas to Grand Canyon
Critique of a developer’s plan to haul tourists on a tramway to the Colorado River.
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Utah can boast of a living work of art
Visiting a remote work of art at the Great Salt Lake –– Robert Smithson’s brilliant Spiral Jetty.
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Deadly avalanches and the lure of the mountains
Mountains are our barometer and our playground, and, on occasion, our tomb.
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Jobs in the oil patch – a realistic look
Many gas patch jobs aren’t high paying once you know the facts.
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A wild river usually claims right of way
And this one is close to sweeping away a historic chalet.
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77 years later, here comes pot
The history of marijuana is clouded by racism and muddled thinking.
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Water and waste are an old story
This resource in the American West will always be dammed, diverted or otherwise purloined.
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A rock star was my teacher
Re-encountering a science nut who instilled in me a love of wilderness.
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Recapture Canyon and an illegal ATV trail
A Utah county attempts to gain right of way on an illegal ATV trail built on public land.
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I admit it: I’m an environmental hypocrite
Yup, I hang my clothes to dry – right after I burn fossil fuels to get them clean.
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Mountain bikes and wilderness don’t mix
To loosen wildland restrictions now starts us down a slippery slope.