Pillaging an Exquisite Valley
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By Milton Dowdy  The Slate Hill fiasco is a terrible mistake. It should have never happened, and it should never happen again. Whatever laws or ordinances from previous enactments are total mistakes, which will not preserve our  beautiful valley.
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By CREAN, Mike  A journey along the Waitaki Valley provides a living history lesson.   A dozen armed policemen advanced on the camp and ordered everyone out.   Slowly, 150 Maori men, women and children filed into the gently falling snow.
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Chapter 342 of the King William Reservoir saga played out recently, the latest in a serial drama that holds hostage both residents and businesses alike on the Peninsula.   In the most recent installment, opponents of the mammoth water project cheered a ruling in their favor.
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Land purchase gives Fools something to watch.
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Aida Edemariam on how the world's biggest oil rush is tearing apart a frontier town in Alberta and its people
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Locals in the Loire valley say too high a price will be paid to benefit from a 'miraculous' bequest
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The hit show 'Valley of the Wolves' was recently pulled off the air for stoking nationalist fervor.
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By John Norton, The Pueblo Chieftain, Colo.  Jun.
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By Dan Walters, The Sacramento Bee, Calif.  Mar. 11--The Imperial Valley, which occupies the southeastern corner of California, is in many ways one of the state's most unusual provinces.
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By Scott Sexton, Winston-Salem Journal, N.C.  Feb. 13--Change comes slowly to the mountains, whether it's the thousands of years it took rivers to carve the breathtaking valleys and gorges or the decades it's taking to change the way people think about their stewardship of the land.
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To divide a people in order to conquer them is an immoral strategy that has endured throughout recorded history.
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Los Angeles Times - BAMIAN, Afghanistan &#8212; Archeologist Zemaryalai Tarzi can barely bring himself to look at the ravaged cliff face where two ancient Buddhas towered until the Taliban infamously blasted them to bits.
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Weeds with stone-splitting roots. Relentless traffic belching pollution. Tourists trampling across the once palatial residences of emperors. Earthquakes and terrorism waiting to happen.
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There is something almost spectral about the vision of the new bridge across the Tarn Valley at Millau. It is almost as though it is not connected to the normal laws of gravity.
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A generation ago, a battle was successfully waged on this rugged island to preserve what was left of its primeval forests, home to giant trees millennia old. Now tourism spawned by this natural heritage is threatening its survival.
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A plan to slice Shimokitazawa in half with an 81-foot-wide road has set off a rare battle for preservation in one of AsiaÂs trendiest metropolises.
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This is the final book of âThe Liberation Trilogy,â which is the shaping up as a triumph of narrative history, elegantly written, thick with unforgettable description and rooted in the sights and sounds of battle.