The GOAT Blog
Forest Service rhetoric meets on-the-ground reality.
HCN's year in review
The author tries to save the world from doom by listing important energy and climate figures
A roadside inspection of Western issues
The grizzly bear population in and around Yellowstone National Park has grown robust enough that the animals are dispersing outwards via habitat corridors like the one provided by the Centennial Mountains.
Big new forest study documents a regional die-off.
What happens when you combine uranium, creationism and Arizona politicians?
Western towns work on "sustainability" and "economic efficiency."
Hitching a ride with Montana climate scientist Steve Running
...but send your sick back to Mexico.
Four more years of road deterioration? Or a concerted effort to address the problem?
Idaho proposal to cull Lolo-area wolves is back before the feds.
...endangered salmon thrive.
...this ought to put a damper on things.
to raise a library.
The Navajo-Gallup Water Project is on its way.
How the Sanborn Lab's search for the universe's secrets is reshaping a Black Hills mining town
...mo' solutions?
There's a controversial new repository in town
Built from the ground up, not a pixel transferred, not a line of code spared.
The global metals bust deepens.
Organic farmers?
Air pollution over gas fields is sometimes worse than in major cities.
...Texas Billionaire Developer.
Doublespeak in the bottled water industry.
Shooting gnarly chemicals into the ground to release natural gas isn't just for the West anymore.
Not a good year for independent and third-party candidates.
Is the West ripening for a Right wing comeback?
Drinking water wells in the Lower Yakima Valley pump "toilet bowl" water. Ick.
Acidic oil from tar sands endangers the public and the environment.
HCN staffer Tammy York talks about basement living and close encounters of the wild kind
What can we learn from a summer of headline-grabbing attacks?
An appeal filed today challenges a hasty permit revision for Arizona's Black Mesa Complex.
The climate friendliness of natural gas comes into question, again
The Lower 48's last caribou get critical habitat
Corporations take heed of "local."
Tim DeChristopher, the jailed environmental activist, follows in Thoreau's footsteps
As gang activity escalates in Indian Country, lawmakers scramble to address the issue.
A monolithic bridge over the Colorado River is nearing completion.
If Hal Rothman was right about Las Vegas, harder times loom in the West
Agencies and states flunk "Prairie Dog Management 101."
Scientists pinpoint the cause of white nose syndrome, which has devastated Eastern bat populations and could move West
Black-footed ferrets are well on their way to recovery
Shakeout from Missouri River flooding includes predictable blame game
New Colorado River book is flawed from the start
Protected bears die -- thanks to careless humans.
We might need a new kind of outdoor guidebook if an outdoorsy drill-here drill-now U.S. Senate candidate gets his way.
California case highlights illegal market for rhino horn
Why the EPA ignores factory farm pollution
The bizarre true story of a tar sands "protest" in Utah headlined by Neil Young and Daryl Hannah
Arizonans try to reclaim a national monument from drug violence, trash and trafficking
Is it worth protecting only half the population of a threatened subspecies?
Washington State looks to shield working forests from urban sprawl
Compromise catches on in southern Utah
Fed-aided energy extraction is nothing new. But renewables could be.
DeChristopher argues that what's sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander
Radiation risks an additional problem at Las Conchas fire
Disease and federal indecision and inaction make life hard for the West's wolves.
The truth about eastern Oregon
The future of the West's strictest anti-tax laws hangs in the balance
Groups petition EPA to regulate ammonia
Conservationists will influence new energy corridors
Scientists try to predict how much water makes a landslide
Oil shale speculation on the western slope may rearrange Colorado water rights in unexpected ways.
Are mining companies paying their fair share for the coal and minerals extracted from public land?
Federal panel stands up for more stringent oversight of fracking. Does it matter?
Asbestos victims in the nation's "deadliest Superfund site" will finally get some compensation
Could eSolar's Sierra SunTower help to end the Mojave land wars?
Hiking 500 miles of a transmission line route. With beans.
Home prices are rebounding, even in the most troubled markets, but what does it mean?
Rulings for haze reductions play out differently for two southwest power stations
Two sides of the spin coin, from the BLM and enviros.
The remarkably smooth recovery of gray wolves in the Great Lakes
North America's communication towers rack up 7 million bird deaths a year, a new study reports
A first-hand look at the Las Conchas fire -- and older burns -- in New Mexico.
A bitter battle rages between Park Service and California oyster farm
Tamarisk and native trees use the same amount of water.
Sen. Inhofe's Bible theories won't lead environmental committee
Former Utah gov. Huntsman may be too politic for politics
A wolf pack and a grizzly emerge from the shadows of the Cascades
A "Roundup" of news about genetically-modified crops and their apparently unstoppable rise.
Forest Service prioritizes prairie dogs, not poison
Saying that Big Oil buys influence is apparently not something you can do on prime-time TV.
- Regina Johnson on Grass-fed beef can be good 365 days a year
- Charles Fox on Grass-fed beef can be good 365 days a year
- Rex Johnson Jr on How to pass a wilderness bill in 2014
- April Warwick on Sweeping new rule for Alaska's predator control
- David Lichtenstein on The paradox of the housing boom and bust