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Native American and Hunters’ Coalition Opposes Alaska Oil Development

Bryce Oates · Nov 17, 2017

Oil production in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge came a step closer this week when a Senate committee cleared the way for a floor vote. Hunters, anglers, and Native Americans who subsist on the refuge's caribou herd say the change threatens a way of life.

Interior Department May Expand Recreational Shooting on Federal Lands

Shayla Hyde · Nov 2, 2017

The U.S. Secretary of the Interior is planning to expand recreational gun shooting on public lands. Five Arizona shooters look at the expansion idea from their unique perspectives.

Connection

BLM Backs Out of Sage-Grouse Pact, Possibly Prompting Litigation and Lost Revenue

Bryce Oates · Oct 2, 2017

A public-private agreement that seemed to satisfy everyone except the energy industry is crumbling. The Bureau of Land Management’s decision to back out of the agreement appears to be tailor made to “blow up years of planning and…

Environment

Speak Your Piece: The Wounded Deer

DarMinow Smith · Dec 1, 2014

Split-second decisions can result in a year’s worth of venison – or a season of regret. Montanan Darby Smith says her father got some of each this year. She wrote this piece during the state’s deer season, which ended…

Wildlife

Playing Well with Otters

Kelley Snowden · Mar 27, 2014

How do you handle a duck-eating otter? In East Texas, Kelley Snowden comes to terms with conflicts – both internal and neighborly – on how to deal with wild predators that don't respect property lines.

Media

Still ‘Black and White and Read All Over’

Julianne Couch · Jan 24, 2014

With the economy of print journalism shifting, small-town editors continue to fill the niche of reporting and “verifying” the news, all the while living alongside the people they cover. Julianne Couch reports on the delicate balance for two…

Environment

Mind and Mussels Clean an Iowa Waterway

Julianne Couch · Jan 29, 2013

How do you restore an impaired stream? In Eastern Iowa, conservationists and farmers are enlisting the appetites of thousands of local mollusks.

Wildlife

Ho-Ho-Hoo: The Christmas Owls

Teresa Collins · Dec 24, 2012

Wiser than elves, quieter than reindeer, Christmas owls make for wide eyes at a holiday gathering in Whitesburg, Kentucky. Merry Christmas to all!

Environment

Rendezvous along the Platte

David Todd · Mar 30, 2012

An ancient episode of March, sandhill cranes move from their winter home in Texas northward, stopping over at the Platte River in Nebraska for "spring break."

Cool Places

‘Abominable Mysteries’ at Yahoo Falls

Allen Bush · Dec 16, 2011

It's hunting season. Two Kentucky plantsmen head unarmed into the territory of putty root and pink muhly, finding the highest waterfall in the state and othr wonders.

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