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Written by PHAEDRA HAYWOOD, The New Mexican
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Monday, 03 March 2008 |
How do you drill through a drinking water aquifer and extract oil from the earth below without polluting that water with oil — and threatening public health? That's a question Galisteo Basin residents have been asking since last fall, when Tecton Energy announced plans to drill for a million barrels of light, sweet crude in the area.
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Written by NICHOLAS K. GERANIOS, Associated Press
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Monday, 03 March 2008 |
The Western states' era of massive dam construction — which tamed rivers, swallowed towns and created irrigated agriculture, cheap hydropower and environmental problems — effectively ended in 1966 with the completion of Glen Canyon Dam on the Arizona-Utah border.
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Written by DAVID O. WILLIAMS, RealVail.com
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Monday, 03 March 2008 |
Most experts agree the war against the mountain pine beetle in Colorado is all but lost, but Vail Resorts hopes to at least win a few battles against the voracious tree-eating bugs using a new repellant injected into the trunks of healthy lodgepole pines.
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Written by MARGARET JACKSON, Denver Post
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Monday, 03 March 2008 |
Efforts to investigate questionable conservation easements in Colorado where tax credits are traded for protection of land from development have been hindered because the state Division of Real Estate doesn't have jurisdiction over subdivisions involving fewer than 20 parcels, and counties don't have jurisdiction over parcels larger than 35 acres.
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Written by MIKE STARK & CLAIRE JOHNSON, Billings Gazette
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Monday, 03 March 2008 |
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The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service on Thursday proposed a sweeping expansion of the amount of "critical habitat" for the threatened Canada lynx, including an additional 21,000 square miles in Montana, Wyoming and Idaho, a move that would increase the area of critical habitat from 1,841 square miles in the lower 48 states to 42,735.
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Written by ALLISON WINTER, Greenwire
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Monday, 03 March 2008 |
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The Interior Department will decide this year on proposed endangered species listings for 71 species, a nearly tenfold increase in the number of species listed in the Bush administration's first seven years.
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Written by ERIC BONTRAGER, E&E Daily
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Monday, 03 March 2008 |
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When National Park Service Director Mary Bomar appears before the House Interior Appropriations Subcommittee this week, she will likely be asked how the operations budget can be so high while other agency functions face major cuts.
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Written by Greenwire
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Monday, 03 March 2008 |
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A federal appeals court ruled against the Bush administration's attempt
to exempt Navy sonar training from court-ordered restraints that
safeguard whales and dolphins from harmful sonic blasts, backing up a
lower court's orders.
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Written by AP, Headwaters News
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Thursday, 28 February 2008 |
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A bill that would give state water officials $20 million to study, monitor and develop plans for future management of 10 aquifers scattered across the state cleared another legislative hurdle Wednesday.
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Written by BRIANNA RANDALL, New West, Headwaters News
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Thursday, 28 February 2008 |
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Would you set up a tent on an empty highway? Paul Hansen, a former University of Montana professor, asked this question at a February streamside setbacks workshop in Kalispell. Though the answer may be a simple one for many folks, a similar question has generated extensive public comment across several western Montana counties: would you build a house in the flood plain?
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Written by APRIL REESE, Land Letter
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Thursday, 28 February 2008 |
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The most water-challenged region in the United States has the most to lose under new federal guidelines governing which bodies of water fall under the safety net of Clean Water Act protections, according to a report from environmental groups.
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Written by JOSH VOORHEES, E&E
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Thursday, 28 February 2008 |
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The Bush administration joined Wyoming Gov. Dave Freudenthal (D) yesterday in
support of legislation that would protect more than 1.2 million acres of the
Wyoming Range from oil and minerals development.
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Written by KARL PUCKETT, USA Today
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Wednesday, 27 February 2008 |
For decades, ranchers and farmers across the West have tapped into
rivers and streams on or near Indian reservations. Now, as drought
conditions plague big parts of the region, they're concerned their
access to those sources could dry up.
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Written by Associated Press, New York Times
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Wednesday, 27 February 2008 |
The Navajo Nation Council on Tuesday approved legislation that would
establish a tribal Superfund law, allowing the tribe to clean up
contaminated sites across its sprawling reservation.
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Written by MIKE STARK, Billings Gazette
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Wednesday, 27 February 2008 |
As the number of elk that live on the northern fringes of Yellowstone National Park continues to decline, the area just north of the park will become increasingly important for their survival, biologists said Tuesday.
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Written by ROGER PHILLIPS, Idaho Statesman
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Wednesday, 27 February 2008 |
The 1,200 elk roaming the sagebrush plains north of Interstate 84 between Boise and Mountain Home this winter illustrate the challenge Idaho faces in maintaining big game herds. What is now winter wildlife habitat could one day be subdivisions.
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Written by BRETT FRENCH, Billings Gazette
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Wednesday, 27 February 2008 |
The Alliance for the Wild Rockies and the Native Ecosystems Council said the U.S. Forest Service's planned logging project in the Gallatin National Forest in Montana threatens northern goshawk habitat and will further degrade the water quality of Big Timber Creek which is already on the state's list of impaired waterways; Forest Service officials said the project will remove beetle-killed timber and minimize the beetle infestation.
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Written by JOHN CRAMER, The Missoulian
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Wednesday, 27 February 2008 |
U.S. Agriculture Undersecretary Mark Rey apologized to U.S. District Court Judge Donald Molloy on Tuesday for the U.S. Forest Service's delay in addressing concerns about the environmental impacts of the use of fire retardant, but insisted that the agency met the requirements of the National Environmental Policy Act and the Endangered Species Act.
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Written by TODD DVORAK, Casper Star Tribune
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Wednesday, 27 February 2008 |
Federal officials are again seeking the latest in scientific data and public comment as they revisit whether to extend Endangered Species Act protection to the sage grouse.
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Written by MATHEW BROWN, Billings Gazette
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Wednesday, 27 February 2008 |
Pesticides, heavy metals and other airborne contaminants are raining down on national parks across the West and into Alaska, turning up at sometimes dangerously high levels in lakes, plants and fish.
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