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High Country News Why did Montana's Bitterroot ski resort go down in a hail of icy glory? Subpar terrain and subpar snow might've had something to do with it, or so says Will Melton:
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Montana's Bitterroot fell through for a reason: It made no sense for skiers.
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great reporting from the New York Times on national clean water issues.
This sentence alone should get you interested, though it's got nothing
to do with the West: "New York City’s 14 wastewater treatment plants, which handle 1.3 billion gallons of wastewater a day, have been flooded with thousandsof pickles, vast fl...ows of discarded chicken heads and large pieces of lumber."
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Many sewer systems are overwhelmed, spilling excrement, medical waste and chemicals into waterways.
Ver maisHigh Country News Regular HCN contributor Eric Wagner just had an interesting and thought-provoking feature in Orion Magazine on Native whaling. Definitely worth checking out:
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Wayne Johnson killed a whale to make a point.
High Country News This headline was just too good not to share with you, our glorious fizbizzers:
Deep-sea census finds 17,650 creatures living in 'eternal watery darkness' | Oregon Environmental Ne
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scientists have inventoried an thousands of deep sea species that have never known sunlight -- creatures that somehow manage a living in a frigid black world down to 3 miles below the ocean waves.Revealed ...
High Country News Eric Wagner delves into the geologic detective work that uncovered the forces behind the Northwest's scablands:
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Thousands of years ago, the Ice Age Floods reshaped the landscape of eastern Washington, along with our knowledge of geology.
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New HCN reader photo up - Classic Cowboy. Share yours! http://www.flickr.com/groups/1116803@N25
Cally Carswell How to fight global warming? Bleach the clouds! Scatter mirrors in space! Geo-engineering gains traction: http://bit.ly/3lV6K1
Robin Ives Some nice environmental updates/issues from "the wild west" that pertain to us just as much. Gee, guess what? We're killing wolves and coyotes again.
High Country News Wyoming pushes on uranium mining. And can nuclear even come close to being a "green" industry? New Grange post
High Country News Three strikes and you're out? For Mexican gray wolves, that's no longer the case. Last year, HCN investigated N.M. rancher who admitted baiting wolves to attack livestock so that after the third such attack, the wolf could be killed or removed (http://www.hcn.org/articles/17568). Enviros filed a lawsuit, and now the three-strikes rule is no more.
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ALBUQUERQUE - The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and environmentalists reached an agreement Friday that scraps a rule the agency had used to kill or permanently remove any wolf that killed three heads of livestock in a year.
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Wolverine settles in Colo, hopefully more to follow http://www.denverpost.com/news/ci_138037
Cynthia Rene Wilkerson If you don't already follow High Country News, check it out, lots of very good reporting on western environmental issues.
High Country News Pay for green power and get. . .green-washing?
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It is proving difficult to say exactly how customers’ voluntary payments for wind and solar power are actually used.
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Looks like the Obama administration's salmon plan is going to run afoul of a federal judge, just like the Bush administration's did. See HCN's cover story "Salmon Salvation?" for context: http://www.hcn.org/issues/41.8/salmon-sa
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GRANTS PASS, Ore. — The federal judge overseeing the balancing act between salmon and Columbia Basin dams said he doesn't think he can consider new steps the Obama administration wants to take.
