
High Country News
New HCN reader photo up - Classic Cowboy. Share yours! http://www.flickr.com/groups/1116803@N25 /pool/
Source: www.hcn.org
A classic Western image, in black and white

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
Source: www.hcn.org
A uranium renaissance arrives in Wyoming

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.
Source: durangoherald.com
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.

Arla
Wolverine settles in Colo, hopefully more to follow http://www.denverpost.com/news/ci_138037 71 > to think I didn't know wolverines were real animals until this year

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?
Source: www.nytimes.com
It is proving difficult to say exactly how customers’ voluntary payments for wind and solar power are actually used.

High Country News
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 lvation
Source: www.google.com
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.

Enviro Words Love your perspective on natural resource issues in the High Country. Wish you had affiliates in other regions.

High Country News Can the Northern Arapaho tribe save their language? They're trying.
Source: www.hcn.org
Can the Arapaho language be saved from extinction?

High Country News What if one in ten wells where you lived were contaminated with arsenic? Bryce Andrews posts on the Anaconda Superfund site in Opportunity, Mont.
Source: www.hcn.org
Notes from a Montana town soaked in mining poisons

Laine Seaton Awesome story with a Native Seeds/SEARCH link in the latest issue!

Jackie Fuchs DeBrown I found this site while trying to locate my former teacher,Tito Naranjo from Santa Clara Pueblo-I love it

High Country News We've got a new photo up on our Grange blog. Check it out! And add yours: http://tinyurl.com/yfd32se
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HCN reader photos show the multicolored hues of fall in the West.

















