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Water, as Mark Twain said, is for fighting. This is nowhere more true than in the Southwest, where agriculture vies with cities and power plants (not to mention Southern California) for scarce supplies. Lack of water also makes cattle favor grazing adjacent to streams, causing serious damage to streamside vegetation and native aquatic life.
In the 1970s there was a plan to build a huge coal mine and powerplant on the Kaiparowits Plateau in southern Utah. The power would mostly be sent to California; the destruction of the landscape and the pollution would stay in Utah. Tom Turner and Bill Curtiss report.
Learn more about the powerplant fight
Ruling protects wilderness qualities and rare plants from harmful drilling
You don't own parts of our national parks just because you say so.
The beautiful, and gravely endangered, Colorado River cutthroat trout has a chance at survival after a judge tells the Bush administration to obey the law.
Grazing reductions on National Monument defended
Forest Service forced to reconsider its goshawk protection policies.
San Pedro River granted a chance to recover
The wild, remote, rugged, and beautiful Kaiparowits Plateau in southern Utah was slated to become an industrial zone with coal mine and power plant. Instead it is now a national monument.
