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As the climate crisis accelerates unabated, water in the West will become the defining issue determining what lives and dies. It's always been that way [...]

Less than six months after the largest man-made environmental disaster in world history was "over," the verdict is in. The people at the bottom of [...]

Forget about cultist heads exploding over the fact that the numerals we all use are actually Arabic in origin. This institution, in Morocco and until [...]

The celebration of imperialism and colonialism is everywhere in Western Europe, especially in Spain (I have not yet been to Portugal). Tourists from all parts [...]

This is not a wild horse. Perhaps it should be, but it is not. Rather this horse is owned by a local rancher. It is [...]

In an end-of-the-road bar of an Alaskan commercial fishing port, patrons follow a tradition of attaching their cash to the ceiling. Almost all banknotes have [...]

It had been two years since Sarah Palin had been thrust on the ticket with John McCain. She was now doing the Tea Party celebrity [...]

At America's northernmost border crossing, international travelers are entreated to a constant harangue by the proprietor of the only restaurant in this hamlet. Since it [...]

Iowa farmers grow more corn than any other state. Therefore the competition is keen at the Iowas State Fair to win the blue ribbon for [...]

There's a huge water feature in the middle of the Iowa State Fairgrounds, one of the largest annual fairs in the nation. As hot as [...]

Wynot, Nebraska attracts tourists driving by on the Outlaw Trail Scenic Byway (aka SR 12) to stop by the nation's smallest city hall. "Why not?" [...]

In the aftermath of Wall Street-induced Great Recession, Senator Dick Durbin (D-IL) said, "...when it comes to the banking lobby, they own the place. It [...]

At an outdoor music festival, at which smoking is allowed, you are invited to smoke in a tent—for adults only. Of course, no photos or [...]

Whenever I meet someone from Iowa, I always say that the best people come from Iowa. I am careful, however, to qualify that statement. But [...]

The prison tower looks like it's straight out of a medieval themepark. But it's real. It's just that it is now in a mixed use [...]

The Mississippi River is constrained as it rushes by the bootheel of Missouri. Nobody would be from here—cultural icon or not—if it were not for [...]

Published today (without the note) at <a href="https://dailymontanan.com/2022/08/22/the-next-front-in-the-culture-wars-conservation-of-rural-land-and-water/" rel="nofollow">https://dailymontanan.com/[…]/</a>.

I had a conversation with one of the owners of the Windbag, a friend, shortly after this note was taken. I thought he ought to [...]

I wrote an OPED about this: <a href="https://take-note.com/note-takers/marshall--mayer/my-other-writings/the-next-front-in-the-culture-wars/view" rel="nofollow">https://take-note.com/[…]/view</a>

Heard on NPR today: <a href="https://www.npr.org/2022/08/10/1116802774/some-governors-are-turning-voluntary-land-conservation-into-a-culture-war-item" rel="nofollow">https://www.npr.org/2022/08[…]on-into-a-culture-war-item</a>. We've had this culture war in MT for quite few years. I would guess that "Save the Cowboy" [...]

This is the new face of farming in Iowa (I grew up there). Of course, it's been going on for a while, but coming from [...]

Using midwest marketing, new trucks are planted on a hillside. But the Great Recession is raging and rural workers are not in the market for [...]

At over 141,000 acres spread across four counties in north central Nebraska, the Nebraska National Forest was, according to the USDA, the largest hand-planted forest [...]

With federal highway funds, this new US83 overpass will make it easier for truckers and tourists to bypass the small town of Thedford, NE.

Although I got there before it opened for the season, it must be great to be a kid in Valentine, NE. This is a community [...]

Simplot advertises their agricultural chemicals as "grower solutions." Judging from how carelessly they applied concrete to set their own fence, they probably don't care that [...]

The "center of the nation" has for over a hundred years been somewhere in the middle of America. It was in Kansas until AK and [...]

Journalism is about telling stories that are important. That function is increasingly in contradiction with how journalism is produced. In a capitalist society, the contradiction [...]

Monopoly is more than a game at McDonald's. It's their business goal, as it is for any fast food franchiser, regardless of how it may [...]

Most commercial buildings in Butte, America were built before fire impression (sprinkler) systems were required in new construction. Now it's deemed far too expensive to [...]