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Opinions on natural resource issues from around the West, featuring Writers on the Range from High Country News.

Wyoming should take the lead in alternative energy PDF Print E-mail
Written by BILL SNIFFIN, Writers on the Range   
Wednesday, 01 October 2008
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.
Last Updated ( Wednesday, 01 October 2008 )
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Clean coal is an oxymoron PDF Print E-mail
Written by GREG GORDON, Writers on the Range   
Wednesday, 01 October 2008
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.
Last Updated ( Wednesday, 01 October 2008 )
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Nailing down the heart of Montana PDF Print E-mail
Written by CATHY MOSER, Writers on the Range   
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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We’ve heard the “drill now” drumbeat before PDF Print E-mail
Written by ED QUILLEN, Writers on the Range   
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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Zane Grey’s West: Longing for the way it never was PDF Print E-mail
Written by MARTY DURLIN, Writers on the Range   
Thursday, 11 September 2008
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.
Last Updated ( Thursday, 11 September 2008 )
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A town’s downtown is the new (old) way to live PDF Print E-mail
Written by BILL CROKE, Writers on the Range   
Thursday, 11 September 2008
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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Size matters when you go for “green” bragging rights PDF Print E-mail
Written by MONIQUE COLE, Writers on the Range   
Thursday, 11 September 2008
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.
Last Updated ( Thursday, 11 September 2008 )
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Mistakes on the fire lines can lead to prosecution PDF Print E-mail
Written by JOHN N. MACLEAN, Writers on the Range   
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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CBM water inquiries are step in the right direction PDF Print E-mail
Written by Casper Star-Tribune Editorial Board   
Tuesday, 26 August 2008
The Wyoming state engineer's decision to make coalbed methane operators in the Powder River Basin prove that continued pumping of groundwater will eventually lead to the production of gas is a good thing, given that over the past decade, coalbed-methane operations brought more than 4 billion barrels of groundwater to the surface, not all of which was put to beneficial use.

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Last Updated ( Tuesday, 26 August 2008 )
 
Democrats borrow from Madison Avenue PDF Print E-mail
Written by RAY RING, Writers on the Range   
Monday, 25 August 2008
It's like a supercharged dream: You find yourself sliding into the driver's seat of a sleek, brand new car. Slap it into gear and you zoom ahead, through a spectacular wild-looking Western landscape.
Last Updated ( Monday, 25 August 2008 )
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The way it looks in rural Oregon in this shaky economic world PDF Print E-mail
Written by RICH WANDSCHNEIDER, Writers on the Range   
Monday, 25 August 2008
A few years ago, local realtors in Joseph, a town of 1,000 in northeastern Oregon, were clamoring for houses and properties to put on the market; now, "for sale" signs are everywhere.  Yet real estate deals in Wallowa County are stalled because the boom times in Bend, Ore., have come to a grinding halt.
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