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Questions about the LandBack movement, answered
Aug 22, 2022 · How can two little words have such combustible power, setting passions ablaze, threatening to undermine 500 years of written law, multigenerational ranching operations and modern-day sprawling ...
Migrating birds find refuge in pop-up habitats
Oct 11, 2024 · Tens of thousands of birds crowd a recently flooded rice field in Wilson, California, last October. Birds identified at the field included geese, blackbirds, ibis, gulls, cranes and starlings.
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‘Smoke Signals’ was needed, but it doesn’t hold up
Oct 1, 2019 · When Smoke Signals hit theaters, Indigenous people were thirsty for representation. Hell, we’re still thirsty. The lack of understanding of what it means to be Indigenous still looms large in ...
7 questions about Freedmen answered - High Country News
Oct 11, 2021 · After more than a century of disenfranchisement, Freedmen are gaining ground. Earlier this week, journalist Allison Herrera reported that the Indian Health Service has decided that Seminole ...
The future of renewables in Arizona hinges on voters
Oct 17, 2024 · The Arizona Corporation Commission has come under scrutiny for its continued support of fossil fuels and resistance to supporting more solar in the state. Three seats could make the difference.
How a dwindling helium supply is impacting public land …
Nov 18, 2024 · In October, the Bureau of Land Management finalized a new resource management plan for Colorado’s Western Slope that will determine how 2 million acres of public land are managed for the next 15 ...
Diverted, drained and dwindling: What’s the fate of New Mexico’s …
Jan 14, 2021 · The Rio Grande used to provide water on a bell curve, with powerful floods in the spring and summer and lower and slower flows in the winter. Now the dams release about 20% of what naturally ...