I know Bob Nolan and the boys long ago taught you that tumbleweeds were a charming part of the West: But in fact, tumbleweeds, actually Russian thistle, is a nasty invasive species that when combined with the kind of drought presently afflicting the West, become...
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As I have said for many years now, agriculture is going to lose out in the water wars of the West. With continued urban growth and the political weight behind.
Soldiers cutting up abandoned horse during General George Crook's "Horsemeat March" to punish the Lakota after the Battle of Little Bighorn, 1876. It was called this because the American troops.
Yesterday, we discussed the serious problems the American West has with its water supply and the very real threats this portends for the region's future. Those who truly believe technology can solve our problems sometimes turn to desalination plants as a cure. Sarah Goodyear sums...
Although urban planners and environmentalists worry about these issues constantly, the blind faith by which most people involved with western development have assumed that water supplies would be found is.
123 years ago today, on December 29, 1890, the United States Army massacred between 150 and 300 Lakota at Wounded Knee, South Dakota, effectively ending the active military engagements of.
Tom Foley's death is a worthy time to think about the late 20th century transition in western politics. Foley was really the last of a generation of western politicians who could come from rural areas but support a progressive agenda, including on environmental issues. He...
One reason Republicans are in no hurry to reopen the government is that it in itself accomplishes major aims of the party. Among the many examples of this is throwing.
How bad is the long-term drought in the West? The enormous rains of last week in Colorado helped a lot locally, barely put a dent in the larger indicators. If.
If you don't read Peter Gleick on water and the West, you really need to because he's the most important journalist focusing on this vital issue. And if he says we have reached peak water, then we've probably reached peak water. After a long list...
Western states and ideological conservatives continue their multi-decade ban against the federal government's control over public land, demanding the government get out of their ability to do whatever they want.
The Wounded Knee Massacre of 1890 (also home to the Wounded Knee shootout between AIM and the FBI in 1973) is on the Pine Ridge Reservation. But not all reservation.