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Land Policy
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meatless mondays
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Meatless Mondays: It Helps Combat Our Warming Planet -- and Thickening Waists
Post date:How powerful is Big Ag on Capitol Hill? The Congressional Vegetarian Caucus would be glad to tell you.
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birds
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The Hummingbird Outside My Window is a Good Sign for the Neighborhood
Post date:In this urban, seemingly over-paved environment, hummingbirds are an indicator species.
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Antiquities Act
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Is Nothing Sacred? Fracking and Chaco Culture National Historic Park
Post date:Our mad-dash rush to frack oil-and-gas threatens significant cultural resources.
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joshua trees
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Is That a Cactus? A Guide to Identifying Cacti and Their Look-Alikes
Post date:A plant with swollen stems and sharp spines has invaded your personal space. "Stupid cactus!" But is it a cactus?"
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Remembering Mike Taugher: Environmental Journalist, Public Servant
Post date:California lost a principled voice in support of environmental protection and open government.
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Mojave National Preserve
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What Good Are Joshua Trees?
Post date:Is a piece of land better filled with Joshua trees or pavement?
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concrete
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Livin' On A Layer: Re-Thinking Our Paved Environment
Post date:What we city dwellers consider the urban environment is a paved layer that we exist upon.
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grizzly bears
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Southern California Forest Considered 'Too Wild To Drill'
Post date:Los Padres National Forest is among a dozen of the nation's most unique landscapes that are threatened by oil and gas drilling.
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Defensible Space in Wildfire-Prone Areas Can Save Lives -- So Why Isn't it the Norm?
Post date:Creating defensible space around communities in fire zone seems a no-brainer.
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birds
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Sometimes You Take Sides in Nature Whether It's a Good Idea or Not
Post date:Observers of nature are supposed to be dispassionate, to try to refrain from getting attached to individual animals.
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In Rocky Mountain National Park, Fire Gives and Takes
Post date:A fire in Rocky Mountain National Park raises questions about the U.S. firefighting policies.
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deserts
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Islands In The Sky: Tales From The Pacific Crest Trail
Post date:Imagine setting aside several months of your life and trading it all for discovery and adventure.
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From the Big Blowup to Yarnell Hill: A Cautionary History of Wildland Fire
Post date:Yarnell Hill fire reminds that we don't need a new firefighting policy.
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fws
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An Ancient Partnership Put in Danger
Post date:The story of whitebark pine should not be overlooked.
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The 'Border Surge' is Dangerous Political Theater -- and Bad for the Environment
Post date:The U.S. Senate thinks the "Border Surge" will make the country more secure.
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Help On The Way For Big-Eared Bats
Post date:Things have been getting worse for the Townsend's big-eared bat in recent decades.
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la county
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Wetlands Are Making a Comeback in Southern California
Post date:For the uninitiated, "wetlands" might seem like a mere eco-buzzword, but up until nearly a century and a half ago, coastal and inland wetlands were common features in the Southern California landscape.
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commentary
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Did President Obama's Climate Change Speech Go Far Enough?
Post date:It took him awhile to get to the point, showing how tentative his proposals are, how carefully couched his prescriptions.
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Chuckwalla Valley
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Drones for Good: Researcher to Study Foxes From the Air
Post date:A wildlife biologist grad student at Duke University wants to remedy our lack of knowledge about desert kit foxes, and she's using some remarkably new technology to do so -- both in the field and on the Internet.
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commentary
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Moab, Utah: Beauty and the Nuclear Feast
Post date:How odd that in Moab one federal agency sought to preserve wild nature and another promoted the rapid exploitation of nature's rare-earth minerals to incinerate our enemies.