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Wyoming ranchers struggling amid drought, higher costs and new pressures from beef imports

Wyoming ranchers already contending with drought, rising costs and scarce land have faced uncertainty following President Trump’s 90-day waiver of higher tariffs on some ground beef imports. “This announcement came out, we had a 10% drop in the value of cattle overnight,” Mark Eisele, who raises nearly 1,500 head of cattle outside of Cheyenne, Wyoming,…

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What’s happening at Big Bend? The fight to protect one of America’s last wild places

Alpine, Texas — Months after Congress approved billions for infrastructure across one of the least-trafficked stretches of the southern border, bulldozers arrived at Big Bend National Park, West Texas’s wild crown jewel.  What followed was an unlikely revolt against President Trump’s decade-old promise to build a wall. Cattle ranchers, environmentalists, sheriffs, Republican senators and country singers…

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After the West’s historic snow drought, spring could bring water shortages and wildfires

At ski resorts across the West this winter, viral images showed chairlifts idling over brown terrain in places normally renowned for their frosty appeal. Iconic mountain towns like Aspen, Colorado, and Park City, Utah, were seen with shockingly bare slopes, as the region endured a historic snow drought that experts warn could bring water shortages…

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