Things categorized as 'The West'
Running on Empty Redux
2 The Colorado River flows through eastern Utah near Moab. A new study suggests use of the river water is unsustainable. (Photo: Tom Yulsman) John Fleck writes about a new study ...
Running on empty
• Decreasing flow and unrelenting demand on the Colorado River The solid lines in the graphs above show historical water use in the Colorado River system. (Source: When will Lake Mead ...
John Fleck: The Incredible Shrinking Lake Mead
5 The level of Lake Mead has dropped significantly, as the white "bathtub ring" in this photo demonstrates. (Photo: Chris M. Richards, via Flickr Creative Commons) In his blog today, ...Why I haven’t blogged for a week
% I've been on a canyon-country walkabout (Watch in High Quality if possible) Shot with a Flip Mino HD video camera
The American Dream: to Live (Unsustainably) in the West
3 Suburban life. (Photo: Johnnyalive, from Flickr Creative Commons) Even as millions of foreclosed and unbought dream homes molder, Americans still see the far-flung suburbs as the most ...
Warming, drought afflict mature forests of the West
• Dead and dying limber and ponderosa pines in Rocky Mountain national Park — victims of pine beetles. (Image by Jeremy Smith, from Colorado Arts & Science Magazine.) If you ...
Obama takes aim at Bush’s “midnight regulations”
• Midnight regulations adopted by the Bush administration permit accelerated uranium mining on the South Rim of the Grand Canyon, which has already allowed radioactivity to contaminate an aquifer and ...
Reporting on snowpack & water resources not useful for readers
• The Colorado River rushes through Glenwood Canyon in the spring of 2008. At that time, water storage in reservoirs in the Upper Colorado Basin was ...
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