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Chaco Culture National Historical Park in northwest New Mexico is a Native American site that many tribes in the Southwest trace back their ancestry.

Interior bans drilling around New Mexico’s Chaco Canyon to protect sacred, historic sites

The Biden administration has ordered a 20-year ban on new oil and gas development around Chaco Canyon in northwest New Mexico, a landscape considered sacred to many tribes.

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2023 ISU Football Season Games And Evening Kickoff Times Announced, New Ticket Pricing Unveiled

Farmland in the Southwestern U.S., such as this alfalfa field in Northern Nevada, is increasingly vulnerable to crop losses and damages due to extreme heat, according to a new Environmental Working Group study.

Southwestern farmers are being hit hard by the heat – and so are taxpayers

Rising temperatures across the Southwest are hurting farmers’ crops, and that’s escalating crop insurance costs for heat-related impacts, according to a new report by the Environmental Working Group, a nonpartisan research and advocacy group.

This NASA map illustrates how much average temperatures were exceeded during the heat dome.

Oregon’s biggest county sues fossil fuel companies for $52B two years after deadly heat dome

In late June 2021, the Pacific Northwest Heat Dome brought unprecedented, deadly temperatures to the region. Portland, Oregon reached a record-setting 116 degrees, and local officials say 69 people – mostly older residents – died during the extraordinary week. Now Multnomah County, home to Portland, is suing a number of fossil fuel companies and organizations.

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Big Sky Officially Announces ’54 for IX’ Women’s Golf Tournament

An aerial view of the Tata Chemicals trona mine in Sweetwater County, Wyoming. The mine accounted for nine of the 83 safety violations issued by the Mine Safety and Health Administration to mines across the Mountain West in April.

Mountain West mines hit with 83 safety violations in April as citations rise nationwide

The Mine Safety and Health Administration issued 335 violations in April at 20 mines across 15 states. Mines in the Mountain West accounted for 83 of the violations, 17 of which were considered "significant and substantial."

The San Juan Generating Station in New Mexico.

Mountain West states at center of movement to make a clean environment a constitutional right

New Mexico and Nevada are among at least a dozen states that have considered so-called "green amendments" to their state constitutions so far this year. The amendments are modeled after Montana's constitutionally guaranteed right to a clean environment.

Downtown Boise in Ada County, Idaho, which had a growth rate of 4.8% between April 2020 to July 2022, according to U.S. Census Bureau data analyzed by the Economic Research Group.

Analysis: Population growth across large swath of Western U.S. returns to pre-pandemic levels

Earlier this month, the US Census Bureau released its 2022 county-level population estimates. The Economic Innovation Group recently analyzed that data at a regional level, and across the West it found that - while population growth rates remain well above national averages - they have slowed to near pre-pandemic levels.

Women's Tennis 4/26/2023 1:05:00 PM Ryan Cheney, ISU Sports Information

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Updates on men's and women's conference play

UI Extension tour to highlight creativity of Pocatello area gardeners on August 12th

The tour, scheduled from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. MT, will also provide a venue for UI Extension to highlight many of its popular, related programs. Participants will be invited to bring sack lunches to the grounds of Marshall Public Library, 113 S. Garfield Ave., Pocatello, during a lunch break. UI Extension's Idaho Master Gardeners will be on hand to answer technical horticulture questions. Click to read press release from University of Idaho.

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