In the first issue of 2022, you’ll meet some hardworking Westerners, from the Indigenous women determined to preserve New Mexico’s Rio Grande, to the Nevada gold miners employed by a mega-corporation that cares as little for its workers as it does for the land it bulldozes. In Puget Sound, the Swinomish Indian Community shows that eelgrass and aquaculture can coexist, while Wyoming wonders whether Natrium nuclear reactors can take the place of coal. We ask uncomfortable questions: Why did the National Park Service bury its own study on sexual harassment inside the agency? And will the “green energy revolution” stomp on Indigenous values the way the fossil fuel industry has? In California, there’s reason to doubt Big Ag’s insistence that expensive canal repairs will help marginalized communities. We’re still suffering from 2021’s extreme “weather whiplash.” Native Americans need a better platform than Facebook, and corporations should quit exploiting Indigenous sacr
LAKE COUNTY, Calif. U.S. Department of Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack announced Friday that USDA is investing approximately $90 million to build and improve critical rural infrastructure in California, including a project in Lake County.
LAKE COUNTY, Calif. U.S. Department of Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack announced Friday that USDA is investing approximately $90 million to build and improve critical rural infrastructure in California, including a project in Lake County.