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Contests aim to find homes for wild horses

As a Johnny Cash tune played over the loudspeakers, horse trainer Gary Main Jr. coaxed Victory through a display of discipline and skill inside the Wyoming State Fair arena.

Fortune: The Southwest desert's real estate boom

Doug Buchanan grins with relief when he sees the carcasses. He has just driven up a steep dirt road onto a vast, sunbaked mesa overlooking the Mojave Desert in western Nevada. There, a few feet from the trail, lie the corpses of two steers. A raven perches on one, the only object more than three feet above the ground on this pancake-flat plateau. Cattle, dead or alive, qualify as good news in Buchanan's line of work. If cattle are present, that means grazing is permitted, and that in turn means that this land is most likely not protected habitat for the desert tortoise.

Time.com: House Wants $1B for Wildfires

A bill approved Thursday by the House Natural Resources Committee would set aside up to $1 billion to pay for fighting major wildfires

Energy, wealth and wildlife: Wyoming looks for harmony

Call it modern horse-trading. Balancing the nation's energy needs with its interests in protecting wildlife and habitats.

Report: Government negligent in Utah mine collapse

Federal safety officials were negligent in their approval of work plans for a Utah coal mine that collapsed in August 2007, leaving nine dead, a Labor Department report concluded Monday.

Weathering wildfires

When are wildfires a good thing? Maybe more often than you think.

CNNMoney: Oil shale

Legendary American geophysicist M. King Hubbert famously predicted in 1956 that U.S. oil production would peak in the early 1970s. Though ridiculed at the time, his prediction -- today known as "Hubbert's peak" -- came true, and domestic production has declined ever since.

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Tips for rafting the San Juan River:

CNNMoney: Ford turns attention to real mustangs

Ford Motor Company announced that it will provide aid to help save about 2,000 wild mustangs.

Fortune: PLANT CURATOR

Kirk Anderson, curator of gardens, the Living Desert, Palm Desert, Calif.

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