Golf courses, once considered wicked over-watered stews of pesticides, fertilizers, and alien plant life, have gained new luster with the environmental community. As homes and businesses continue to spread across the landscape, golf courses are often providing the open spaces that communities crave. Increasingly, these open spaces are offering up wildflowers, native plants, bluebirds, turtles,Continue reading “Golfing Gone Wild”
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Salted Irrigation
Salt deposits can destroy farm land, but at long last, one scientist has found a crop that will tolerate irrigation by sea water.
Fencing the Fishery
How rights-based fishing policies can reduce the costly and destructive race to fish.
Why is the West Always Burning Down?
June 26, 2002 By Linda Platts and Holly Lippke Fretwell BOZEMAN, Mont. – A journalist from an eastern newspaper called our offices in Bozeman, Montana, last week to ask “Why is the West always burning down?” For those of us who live here, it is an exasperating question because we already know the answer. TheContinue reading “Why is the West Always Burning Down?”
Community Forestry in India and Nepal
After years of national control, governments allow local people to share the resource.
How the Milesnicks Found Markets
As fishers flocked to their trout streams, a Montana ranch family discovered how to spur cooperation.
The Fires this Time
It’s fire season again. The blazes signify deeper problems at the Forest Service.
Trading in Trash
If congressional efforts to curtail interstate trash disposal succeed, costs will go up.
Government vs. Environment
Contrary to popular belief, government is not the ultimate protector of the environment.
Full Steam Ahead
As energy efficiency has become a top priority for many companies, cogeneration power plants are supplying some solutions. Cogeneration provides electricity to customers along with steam that can be used in their production or manufacturing processes. In Orange County, Texas, Conoco Energy Solutions and NRG Energy Inc. have begun operations at a 420-megawatt cogeneration powerContinue reading “Full Steam Ahead”