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mining & agriculture
Field Day
Colorado's prison inmates fill in for immigrant farm workers
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Water
A good idea -- if you can get away with it
Conservation-minded Westerners harvest rainwater, run afoul of the law
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flora & fauna
Video: Still Howling Wolf
The passionate and complicated feelings people have about living with wolves in the Northern Rockies
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politics & policy
The great giveaway
Fragile landscapes, cultural sites at risk in hastily released Utah BLM plans
hcn today
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Bear necessities
Seth Cohen describes a close encounter with a grizzly – and an even closer encounter with grizzly-strength pepper spray.
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The great giveaway
Brand-new resource management plans from Utah’s BLM welcome ATVs and energy development onto some of the state’s most fragile land.
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Wildlife wars
There’s fighting over the endangered status of wolves, sage grouse, etc., and protecting wildlife from drilling.
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Acidifying oceans
Paleo-oceanographer James Zachos points to evidence of the last time climate change acidified the oceans, some 55 million years ago.
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Back to the future
A long time ago, the earth warmed considerably; now, scientists study fossils to find out what happened – and what it might mean for us today.
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Field Day
In some Western states, including Colorado, prison inmates are taking the place of immigrant farmworkers.
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A good idea – if you can get away with it
Rainwater harvesting is against the law in many Western states, but folks in Utah, Colorado and Washington want to change that.
from the Blogs
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The GOAT Blog
A guidebook we might use
We might need a new kind of outdoor guidebook if an outdoorsy drill-here drill-now U.S. Senate candidate gets his way.
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The GOAT Blog
Power to the people
Sevier County voters will decide the fate of a proposed coal-fired plant in November.
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The GOAT Blog
When spines aren't enough
Saguaros soon to be embedded with microchips.
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The GOAT Blog
Bureau of Land Ravagement?
The BLM has waived environmental review of energy projects thousands of times in Utah and Wyoming.
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The GOAT Blog
Why Western Wildfires are getting larger
The Forest Service says it's climate change, the timber industry says its lack of logging, others say it’s intentional.
Multimedia
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The fruits of their labor
In Delta County, Colorado, a pilot program sent prisoners to work on three farms during the summer of 2008.
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Video: Still howling wolf
The passionate and complicated feelings people have about living with wolves in the Northern Rockies.
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Portland Promenade
People on the streets of Oregon's pedestrian-friendly city talk about why they leave their cars at home (or have no cars).
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Roan on the auction block
The BLM auctioned leases on 54,631 acres in Western Colorado to the natural gas industry for a record $114 million.
Politics & Policy
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The great giveaway
Brand-new resource management plans from Utah’s BLM welcome ATVs and energy development onto some of the state’s most fragile land.
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Battleground!
HCN surveys the swingin' Western political landscape with this interactive map.
Water
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A good idea – if you can get away with it
Rainwater harvesting is against the law in many Western states, but folks in Utah, Colorado and Washington want to change that.
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Leaky border
Efforts to stop wastewater pollution from Tijuana have bogged down in a nasty mess.
Culture & Communities
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On the Stegner trail
Philip L. Fradkin looks at the life of an iconic Western author in Wallace Stegner and the American West.
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The invisible man
Chilean guest-worker Ricardo Arriagada herds goats that eat weeds to help prevent brush fires in Hercules, Calif.
Energy
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Wyoming should take the lead in using CNG
Bill Sniffin says it's past time for the gas-rich state to jump-start technology for vehicles using alternative fuel.
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Clean coal is an oxymoron
Greg Gordon says Montana's governor, Brian Schweitzer, may sound like a populist, but he's beholden to King Coal.
Writers on the Range
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What I will say to Americans once I am elected president
President Jim Stiles would tell the nation that it is past time we started living within our means – both economically and environmentally.
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Wyoming should take the lead in using CNG
Bill Sniffin says it's past time for the gas-rich state to jump-start technology for vehicles using alternative fuel.
Essays
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Bear necessities
Seth Cohen describes a close encounter with a grizzly – and an even closer encounter with grizzly-strength pepper spray.
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A Western primer
Western writers offer a generous and inspired list of recommended reading for the president-elect, including a diverse collection of fiction and nonfiction.
Book Reviews
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On the Stegner trail
Philip L. Fradkin looks at the life of an iconic Western author in Wallace Stegner and the American West.
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The creation of wholeness
Terry Tempest Williams celebrates Rwanda, mosaics and Utah prairie dogs in her new book, Finding Beauty in a Broken World.
