Barnard Construction’s leadership donated over $1 million to the president’s campaign. They’re among the administration’s top wall contractors.
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A bold process aims to repair the damaged watershed.
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Facing fires and floods, homeowners are considering buyouts designed to move them out of harm's way.
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Utah has become the latest front in a high-stakes fight to build the infrastructure powering the A.I. boom.
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On June 16, the feds will open Colorado’s biggest public land sale in modern history, threatening wildlife and recreation.
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The best things in life are not things but places.
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Two staffers show tenacity on the wall and for our readers.
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The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has transformed the estuary and robbed the river of sediment over the last century.
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Indigenous Tewa artists reassert their relationship with the land in a new exhibition at the Georgia O'Keeffe Museum.
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In Anchorage, a writer gets to know devil’s club and her other new botanical neighbors.
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The Trump administration looks to preserve ranching heritage, but it’s not clear it will work.
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The people trying to save a singular arts landmark face scarce funding, extreme flooding and aging adobe.
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A growing body of research is examining the impact of wildfire smoke on the ability to conceive.
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From Vancouver Island newts to California’s high country newts, the toxic Taricha genus includes some unique and deadly Western species.
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Federal and state approaches to managing the Colorado River – as well as land and wildlife – reflect a lack of experience.
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Mott will report from the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem, and his stories will be available to republish for free.
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A new border wall has turned one end of the long-distance trail into a construction zone.
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Sometimes a mile or more. Clustered rather than scattered rural homes could help.
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In an uncommon move, Interior Secretary Doug Burgum intervened in a case that involved the former legal clients of Karen Budd-Falen, one of his top deputies.
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A writer experienced everything in spring: supernatural plants, chronic illness and a multi-generational curse called climate change.
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A controversial land swap orchestrated by the mega rich could be ‘a harbinger of what’s to come’ for public lands under Trump.
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The media mogul had a lifelong commitment to endangered species, ecotourism and supporting rural agriculture.
The post Ted Turner owned vast swaths of Western land. What happens to them now? appeared first on High Country News.
‘If you don’t have clean water, you really don’t have anything.’
The post Contamination, climate change and political drama stall clean water for Colorado’s Arkansas Valley appeared first on High Country News.
Nature’s enduring mysteries buoy efforts to save the most endangered marine mammal on Earth.
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Oil and gas giant Continental Resources wanted the BLM to sign off on new wells in Wyoming, despite a court injunction there. The agency obliged.
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There’s ongoing harm from Indigenous identity fraud.
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Mishaps and mayhem from around the region.
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The pipeline would eventually cross 234 miles of tribal land. The hearing initiating the project caught community members off guard.
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The future of Western forests depends on professional pine cone collectors. They’re slowly being starved out of existence.
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In a state that’s already short on the resource, Los Alamos National Laboratory expects to double water use.
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