Submissions from hcn.org

• Navajo ranchers are raising premium beef: Is their success sustainable?

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  Published 21st Jun 2020
• Bureau of Land Management investigates a new Bundy ranch project

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  Published 17th Jun 2020
• Ranchers blindsided by Trump’s border wall: They built a coalition to protect open space. Now, they’re up against the country’s largest construction project.

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  Published 10th Feb 2020
• In rural Colorado, the kids of coal miners learn to install solar panels - Where the mines once provided steady employment, solar energy now offers jobs for the next generation.

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  Published 16th Dec 2019
• Trump’s trade war is draining profits for Montana wheat farmers: Today’s agricultural producers battle both environmental threats and geopolitical conflict.

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  Published 1st Sep 2019
• The mysterious cow murders at Missouri Breaks: In 2068, a West Obsessed investigation.

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  Published 27th Aug 2019
• I used to raise cattle for slaughter. Now I refuse to eat meat: Once a holistic rancher, Laura Jean Schneider reflects on her decision to abandon the industry.

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  Published 14th Aug 2019
• Timberland herbicide spraying sickens a community. Companies deposit thousands of pounds of herbicides each year on forests.

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  Published 1st Aug 2019
• With coal in free-fall, Wyoming faces an uncertain future

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  Published 18th Jul 2019
• Ranchers sue major meatpackers: Plaintiffs allege ‘The Big Four’ conspired to reduce cattle prices.

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  Published 18th Jun 2019
• Farmers turn to prisons to fill labor needs: With immigration numbers low, the agriculture industry looks to another form of disenfranchised workers.

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  Published 18th Jun 2019
• One rancher’s plan to establish water buffalo in Colorado: The challenges and possibilities of water buffalo ranching in the Roaring Fork Valley.

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  Published 7th Jun 2019
• Agricultural interests steer Colorado’s wildlife management: Sheep grazing in the state’s largest wilderness area could endanger a dwindling bighorn sheep herd.

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  Published 27th May 2019
• Can small-scale farmers grow a healthier California? - Where industrial monocrops dominate, small farms form an agricultural resistance in the Central Valley.

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  Published 23rd May 2019
• The case for carbon farming in California: Can farmers and ranchers use plants to capture greenhouse gases?

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  Published 6th May 2019
• Farmers and ranchers lose vital support during shutdown: The funding stalemate has halted Department of Agriculture programs that the rural West relies on.

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  Published 18th Jan 2019
• A new generation of environmentalists is learning to love atomic power

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  Published 30th Dec 2018
• When cattle go missing in wolf territory, who should pay the price? - A program to reimburse Oregon ranchers for livestock killed by wolves is in trouble.

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  Published 26th Jul 2018
• GMO grass is creeping across Oregon: Missteps by agribusiness giants allowed the invasion. Now they’re off the hook for cleanup.

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  Published 28th Jun 2018
• Trump’s coal and nuclear bailout helps execs and hurts the grid

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  Published 27th Jun 2018
• After Malheur, side effects of the Bundys’ extremism linger: But in Harney County, Oregon, collaboration around public lands grows.

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  Published 18th Jun 2018
• The allure of horse-powered farms

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  Published 30th Jan 2018
• In Montana, houses are replacing farmland: Can lessons from Vermont keep local agriculture alive?

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  Published 17th Jan 2018
• As a rancher, I see failure on both sides of the Bundy trial: It takes wisdom, patience and humanity to make federal land management work.

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  Published 17th Jan 2018
• The Endangered Species Act itself could go extinct - Congress & the Trump administration threaten an act vital to wildlife & habitat.

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  Published 14th Jan 2018
• Idaho gets nation’s first International Dark Sky Reserve

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  Published 9th Jan 2018
• Raising a ranch from the dead

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  Published 18th Dec 2017
• The turkey industry catches a break with Trump: The EPA’s regulatory rollbacks are helpful for poultry producer profit margins.

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  Published 24th Nov 2017
• In the Southwest, a sustainable breed of cattle: The criollo cow can thrive in hot, dry conditions that are difficult for other breeds.

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  Published 16th Nov 2017
• How to shear a sheep — and why

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  Published 10th Nov 2017
• Coexistence between wolves and livestock is a delusion

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  Published 2nd Nov 2017
• Farm-to-table beef relies on native grasses: A rancher focuses beyond his herds and gets to the root of sustainability.

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  Published 30th Oct 2017