For years, retiring grazing permits has served as a common-sense, market-based solution for protecting some of the west’s most delicate public lands. A rancher's near death experience serves as an example of how and why these retirements work.
The campaign to defeat Escalade is not over. A fleet of black jeeps carrying interested investors on their way out to visit the proposed site of the project was recently intercepted by a local sheepherder.
After six years in college and graduate school in the Southeast, I was excited to swap Appalachia’s dense forests for the Southwest’s wide-open desert vistas.
Obsolete and unsafe regulations allow uranium mining companies to play Russian roulette with America’s most treasured public lands, including the Grand Canyon.