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  • Rural West
The California Water Institute and the Maddy Institute are collaborating with Stanford University’s Bill Lane Center for the American West to bring the Eleventh Annual Eccles Family Rural West Conference to Fresno State University on Wednesday, Feb…
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  • & the West
Amidst a wave of executive orders comes a disruption of water security in California; huge feats for renewable energy in 2024; wolf reintroduction in Colorado; mounting pressure for lithium; the gentrification of the Mountain West; and other stories…
  • ArtsWest
In our final podcast on the West in collaboration with Michael Krasny, Greg Sarris, author and chairman of the Federated Indians of Graton Rancheria, discusses the complexities of Native American identity.
  • Center News
The archive contains over 600,000 items dating back to the 18th century, including original artifacts from the Gold Rush and 1906 San Francisco Earthquake and Fire. The Bill Lane Center acquired the California Historical Society Collection in…
  • & the West
Architects of the 2014 Sustainable Groundwater Management Act tried to forestall conflict between state regulators and local groundwater users. But judging plans “inadequate” creates hard-to-reconcile differences.
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