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— Myth of the American West —

The History of the American West Gets a Much-Needed RewriteArtists, historians and filmmakers alike have been guilty of creating a mythologized version of the U.S. expansion to the west

'A prisoner of environment': is it time to leave the American west?The western US has long been characterized by balmy weather and fresh starts, but some are weary of the unhealthy air and worry about a water shortage

Losing Eden: An Environmental History of the American West. By Sara Dant During the field’s first decades, environmental history was often conflated with western history because of the ubiquity of early regionally based studies, yet

Dust bowl conditions of 1930s US now more than twice as likely to reoccurClimate breakdown means conditions that wrought devastation across Great Plains could return to region

To Think Like A Mountain: Environmental Challenges In The American West

By John Miles on October 16th, 2019

www.nationalparkstraveler.org/review/2019/10%E2%80%8B/think-mountain-environmental-challenges-american-west

Wildfires and the Climate Crisis in the American West

Global Warming in the Western United StatesLearn how global warming is affecting California and the western states, and the solutions states are taking to address the growing risks of climate change. An overview from the Union of Concerned Scientists

The threat to America's public lands is increasing – and so is our coverageThis Land Is Your Land is our series on an American birthright at risk amid privatization, energy extraction and climate change

Public Lands: Our Industry, Our Issue, Our Fight. What Are (and What Aren’t) Public Lands?

How Climate Change Is Impacting the American West Right NowMany studies have modeled future impacts from climate change, but scientists have shown that warming trends are already affecting water and ecosystems in the West.

NATIONAL PARKS

Opinion | Our National Parks Are in TroubleBlame overcrowding, invasive species, climate change and money woes.

National Parks Struggle With a Mounting Crisis: Too Many VisitorsOvercrowding has put a strain on a park system already grappling with climate change and funding problems, leading to proposals to limit access.

How A Surge in Visitors Is Overwhelming America’s National ParksThe growing crowds at U.S. National Parks have become unmanageable, jeopardizing the natural experience the parks were created to provide. With attendance this summer continuing to shatter records, officials are considering limiting use of the parks in order to save them.

What Do We Owe Our National Parks?In 1961, Atlantic readers debated a question Americans are still asking today.

Crisis in our national parks: how tourists are loving nature to deathAs thrill seekers and Instagrammers swarm public lands, reporting from eight sites across America shows the scale of the threat

How the Transcontinental Railroad Changed America

https://www.history.com/news/transcontinental-railroad-changed-america

How Climate Change Is Impacting the American West Right NowMany studies have modeled future impacts from climate change, but scientists have shown that warming trends are already affecting water and ecosystems in the West.

Living with the Environmental and Social Legacy of U.S. Land Policy in the American WestBy Julie Brugger, University of Arizona § Looking out across the arid, mesquite- and saguaro-studded landscape of the Tonto Basin District of the Tonto National Forest (TNF) in central Arizona, it …

The Problem of the West

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1896/09/the-problem-of-the-west/525699/

Western ConservationSince 1969, the Hewlett Foundation has been dedicated to preserving the vast open spaces of the West as unspoiled landscapes where wildlife thrives, communities flourish, and ranchers maintain their history of stewardship. Over the decades, mining, drilling, clear-cutting and expanding population have taken a harsh toll on the natural beauty, critical water sources and local…

WELFARE QUEENS

Sustainable Cowboys or Welfare Ranchers of the American West?Five hundred million dollars[1]. That’s what 21,000[2] ranchers who graze their livestock on America’s iconic western rangelands are estimated to have cost US taxpayers in 2014 — and every year for…

We must rid the American West of 'welfare ranching'The image of the rancher in the rugged West is one of self-sufficiency and a tough defiance of government, writes George Wuerthner. But the truth is that ranchers, especially those using federal land, depend on a host of generous subsidies, both economic and ecological.

How Imperiled Are America's Public Lands?The Trump administration's latest pick to manage nearly a quarter-billion acres of public land doesn't think the government should own land. But can he do anything about it?

The Rancher SubsidyThe West's fabled ranchers are in trouble. The damage done to the land by cattle has become a contentious environmental issue. The ranchers' greatest enemy, though, is the free market

Cattle grazing is a climate disaster, and you’re paying for itIt’s time the taxpayers stopped indulging whiny welfare queens like the Bundys and kicked them off the dole.

Ranching Solutions - Living with Wolves

This is one of the last remnants of American prairieIn Oklahoma’s Osage County, the Tallgrass Prairie Preserve safeguards herds of bison, flocks of birds, and breathtaking grassland.

Western Grasslands are a Major Solution to Removing Carbon from the Atmosphere

Carbon-Offset Cowboys Let Their Grass GrowRanchers in Montana are being paid by polluters to keep their grass unmowed

Grasslands more reliable carbon sink than treesForests have long served as a critical carbon sink, consuming about a quarter of the carbon dioxide pollution produced by humans worldwide. But decades of fire suppression, warming temperatures and drought have increased wildfire risks—turning California's forests from carbon sinks to carbon sources.

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