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Dispatchers in disarray • A Forest Service survey details the consequences of wildland fire dispatcher burnout.
Where the wild bees are • Before you can protect native bumblebees, you have to be able to find them.
River of bass • As Lake Powell shrinks, smallmouth bass are threatening the Grand Canyon’s native fishes.
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The case of the missing water • Researchers in the Colorado high country are trying to unravel the mystery.
Clean energy boom • New legislation is bringing manufacturing — and jobs — back home.
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Alone on the Range • The West’s sheepherding industry relies on temporary visas and exposes workers to often brutal conditions.
California’s Middle Eastern Mirage • How the Coachella Valley created an image and an industry for dates.
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What is a waterway? • Notes on what is fluid and flowing, even if emphemeral.
A Hxstory of Renting • Using art to preserve what gets lost when a community gentrifies.
Dino time • Teaching kids to appreciate slowness in a speeded-up world.
Heard Around the West • Tips about Western oddities are appreciated and often shared in this column. Write heard@hcn.org.
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