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6 days ago | 
hcn.org | Gretchen King
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1 week ago | 
hcn.org | Gretchen King
This story was originally published by The Colorado Sun and is republished here by permission. Benzene from a 23,000-gallon gasoline spill is apparently creeping toward the Animas River, as Southern Ute tribal leaders say cleanup work by the state and the pipeline owner is moving too slowly and federal authorities have now warned they are watchdogging progress.
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1 week ago | 
hcn.org | Gabriel Furshong |Gretchen King
Before a single vote was cast on Election Day, Paul Tuss figured he knew how Montana’s statewide races would turn out. Montana’s major elections — like those in many states in this historically partisan era — have become predictable. As expected, President Donald Trump trounced Kamala Harris, Republicans swept all statewide offices by an average 21 points, and 18-year incumbent Sen. Jon Tester lost to Republican Tim Sheehy, a wealthy businessman who was born in Minnesota.
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1 week ago | 
hcn.org | Tracy Stone-Manning |Gretchen King
Public lands are one of our country’s great equalizers. It doesn’t matter how much money you have — a billionaire and a bus driver both get the same access to our parks, deserts, rivers and forests. Each one of us owns these lands together. They are literally America’s common ground. Like so many Americans, I’ve built a life around public lands — exploring them, defending them and working to ensure they remain open to all.
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1 week ago | 
hcn.org | Caroline Tracey |Gretchen King
This story is co-published with The Border Chronicle. On a hillside above an oak-lined wash, 25 miles south of the U.S.-Mexico border in the state of Sonora, a norteño ballad trumpeted from a portable speaker as Eduardo de los Colores sang along, swinging a pickax at the ground. It was early February, and Colores and a group of Sonoran university students were uprooting catclaw mimosa, a thorny shrub that invades overgrazed grasslands.
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2 weeks ago | 
hcn.org | Ethan Linck |Gretchen King
What was the dire wolf? Like many species lost before living memory and known only from remains, the 1854 discovery of a jawbone from this extinct North American predator was more suggestion than revelation. “Certain naturalists may regard the fossil as an indication of a variety only of the Canis lupus,” or gray wolf, wrote paleontologist Joseph Leidy, describing what he tentatively called Canis primaevus.
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2 weeks ago | 
hcn.org | Craig Childs |Gretchen King
Shadows cast 10 miles long as the last sun tucks between ridges and mountain tops. Dusk falls faster on our basin side and slower on the other side, the sunset watched not by looking toward it but by looking in the opposite direction toward blood-orange peaks. End-of-day light climbs the highest summits till it’s airborne, and we fall into the shadow of the Earth. My internal compass starts up, shoulders relaxing as I settle into cardinal directions, brain tingling with orientation.
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3 weeks ago | 
hcn.org | Taylar Stagner |Gretchen King
This story was originally published by Grist, in partnership with the Associated Press, and is republished here by permission. Jason Baldes drove down a dusty, sagebrush highway earlier this month, pulling 11 young buffalo in a trailer up from Colorado to the Wind River Reservation in Wyoming. His blue truck has painted on the side a drawing of buffalo and a calf.
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3 weeks ago | 
hcn.org | Zoë Rom |Gretchen King
Selling off federal public lands, once a fringe idea, is now gaining traction among Republicans in Congress, the courts and in the White House. President Donald Trump has proposed using the money from such sales to offset the cost of extending his 2017 tax cuts, which would massively increase the federal budget. In March, the U.S. Senate narrowly voted down an amendment that would have banned selling public land to balance the federal budget.
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3 weeks ago | 
hcn.org | Mark Olalde |Gretchen King
This story was originally published by ProPublica, a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative newsroom, and is republished here by permission. Sign up for The Big Story newsletter to receive stories like this one in your inbox. When a firefighter dies in the line of duty, a small team of federal health workers is often called on to pinpoint what went wrong and identify how to avoid similar accidents in the future.
