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Position: High Country News
Position: Guest Column
Position: Writers on the Range
Position: Heard Around the West
NORTH DAKOTAA woman named Donna recently called Fargo, N.D., radio station Y94 to air a problem so bizarre, the station's hosts were almost speechless. Her complaint? Deer-crossing signs placed...
DATE: Jan. 7, 2013 | COLUMN: Heard Around the West
UTAHIt seemed at first like just another armed holdup of a roadside corn stand. Corn-seller Dusty Moore told police that he was innocently selling ears in a North Ogden parking lot when a...
DATE: Oct. 6, 2012 | COLUMN: Heard Around the West
COLORADOThese are dark days for bovines. In northeastern Colorado, 50 cows keeled over this summer, most likely from anthrax, which thrives during drought. That sad news came on the heels of a...
DATE: Sept. 15, 2012 | COLUMN: Heard Around the West
COLORADOAs if the recent local wildfires werent trouble enough, now Woodland Park, Colo, has to worry about a strong, aggressive 6-foot monitor lizard that might find itself tempted to dine on...
DATE: Sept. 6, 2012 | COLUMN: Heard Around the West
SOUTH DAKOTAThe Custer County Chronicle, established in 1880 in the Black Hills of western South Dakota, is one of those weekly papers that asks the sheriffs department to pitch in and publish its...
DATE: Aug. 7, 2012 | COLUMN: Heard Around the West
CALIFORNIARobert Biggs, 69, encountered both an unfriendly lion and an unexpectedly altruistic bear in the mountains above Whiskey Flats, in northeastern California. Biggs had been quietly...
DATE: May 19, 2012 | COLUMN: Heard Around the West
COLORADOThe city of Grand Junction just loves controversy, or so you would think from reading the Grand Junction Daily Sentinel. First, there was the flap over a high school student who refused to...
DATE: April 21, 2012 | COLUMN: Heard Around the West
WASHINGTONMoney may not buy you happiness, but burning it might help keep you from freezing to death. A snowshoer who became lost in a blizzard on Mount Rainier told The Seattle Times that he...
DATE: March 8, 2012 | COLUMN: Heard Around the West
ARIZONAWalk around the rims of Grand Canyon National Park and you cant help but notice that a lot of the trash tourists leave behind is plastic water bottles, especially on trails during the...
DATE: Dec. 27, 2011 | COLUMN: Heard Around the West
UTAHAfter people in the town of Moab got to talking about providing a shelter for the homeless, Carey Jones wrote the Moab Times-Independent to say that the well-intentioned move might just open...
DATE: Dec. 10, 2011 | COLUMN: Heard Around the West
THE WESTThe Arizona Strip north of the Grand Canyon suffers from an unemployment rate as high as 17 percent. It also suffers from, or (depending on your point of view) is blessed by, the high...
DATE: Nov. 26, 2011 | COLUMN: Heard Around the West
UTAHKnowing how to operate a stick shift can come in handy, especially if youre on the lam, reports the Associated Press. A couple accused of shooting a man in Wyoming hijacked a car to elude the...
DATE: Oct. 1, 2011 | COLUMN: Heard Around the West
