Opinions on natural resource issues from around the West, featuring Writers on the Range from High Country News.
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Written by MICHAEL PEARLMAN, New West
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Wednesday, 08 October 2008 |
The rush to build and sell trophy homes and condos in some of the most scenic Western communities seems to have slowed. There is some indication that the hotels in the West are following the trend set by the vacation-home markets.
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Written by PAUL VANDEVELDER, Writers on the Range
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Wednesday, 08 October 2008 |
As the last vestiges of laissez-faire capitalism were being lowered into the
ground on Wall Street last month, out on the Western edge of the high plains an
administrative circus of a similar nature was unraveling. Its center was the
Minerals Management Services (MMS) division of the Interior Department, in
Lakewood, Colo.
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Last Updated ( Wednesday, 08 October 2008 )
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Written by SUSAN TWEIT, Writers on the Range
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Wednesday, 01 October 2008 |
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I'm a student of roadkill. I keep an informal tally of the carcasses I spot on
the roadside – what kind, how many and where -- and I note the splatters that
accumulate on our car windshield. They're an indication of the diversity and
abundance of animal and insect lives along the unnatural transects we call
highways.
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Last Updated ( Wednesday, 01 October 2008 )
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Written by BILL SNIFFIN, Writers on the Range
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Wednesday, 01 October 2008 |
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Wyoming is one of the largest natural-gas producing states, so why isn’t the
state leading the nation in powering vehicles with this abundant fuel? If the
price of gasoline stays high and a natural gas-powered car can run on
$1-to-$1.25 per gallon-equivalent cost, however, I think we’ll see the light:
We’ll understand that it makes economic sense for us to develop cars that run on
natural gas.
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Last Updated ( Wednesday, 01 October 2008 )
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Written by GREG GORDON, Writers on the Range
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Wednesday, 01 October 2008 |
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After Montana Gov. Brian Schweitzer made a fiery speech at the Democratic
Convention, some people suggested that he’d make a fine secretary of Energy no
matter who wins the election. Schweitzer may give a good speech, but his
enthusiasm for coal should give one pause.
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Last Updated ( Wednesday, 01 October 2008 )
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Written by CATHY MOSER, Writers on the Range
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Friday, 19 September 2008 |
Everyone in Lewistown, Mont., used to know that the heart of the state was under Mrs. Dockery's kitchen sink. The prairie town's claim to host Montana's geographic center has been unabashedly celebrated, debated and defended since 1912.
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Last Updated ( Friday, 19 September 2008 )
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Written by ED QUILLEN, Writers on the Range
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Friday, 19 September 2008 |
Perhaps it is telling that when it comes to energy policy, President George W. Bush has inspired nostalgia for Jimmy Carter. "If we had only followed Carter's energy plan," people say, "we wouldn't be in this fix now."
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Last Updated ( Friday, 19 September 2008 )
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Written by MARTY DURLIN, Writers on the Range
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Thursday, 11 September 2008 |
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When I was a child and stayed with my grandparents in their house at the top of
a cactus-studded hill, I cherry-picked their library, which ran floor to ceiling
along the entrance hall. I figured Grandpa was the one who read Zane Grey --
half a dozen of Grey’s exotic titles were lined up together on a lower
shelf.
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Last Updated ( Thursday, 11 September 2008 )
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Written by BILL CROKE, Writers on the Range
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Thursday, 11 September 2008 |
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The sun rises over the mountains and floods my room with light. I lie in bed and
listen to the cooing of conspiring pigeons on the roof. I’ve lately moved from
Cody, Wyo., to Salmon, Idaho. Cody, like other towns surrounding Yellowstone
National Park, has become an expensive place to live, especially for a freelance
writer accustomed to the bohemian life. So I’ve moved on to continue to
cultivate the Old Urbanist in me, this time on the second floor of an old
red-brick building downtown.
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Written by MONIQUE COLE, Writers on the Range
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Thursday, 11 September 2008 |
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I was reading the Boulder County Business Report recently when an article about
the “greenest home in North America” caught my eye. The house was being built to
fulfill the dream of a businessman who specializes in renewable energy.
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Last Updated ( Thursday, 11 September 2008 )
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Written by JOHN N. MACLEAN, Writers on the Range
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Thursday, 11 September 2008 |
Behind daily headlines about bigger and more costly wildland fires, the firefighting community has been sweating out the issue of criminal liability for serious mistakes made on the fire line.
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Last Updated ( Thursday, 11 September 2008 )
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