The story of Idaho's water and its hold on a growing state
By By Adam Tanous
In the West, battles over water tend to get framed in terms of big abstract entities—municipalities, hydropower companies, agricultural conglomerates—wrestling [...]
The history of the U.S. government acquiring and subsequently disposing of its lands has had a dramatic effect on how the wide open spaces of the West have been preserved and how we as a people interact with those lands. [...]