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Prodigal Dogs

Have gray wolves found a home in Colorado?
The Forgotten Mesa

Without basic services, life on Pajarito Mesa is all about surviving.
Dangerous game

Western game wardens are hindered by huge territories, budget cuts
The Shot Heard Round the West

What resulted from activists' 1990 challenge to the big greens

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Comeback Wolves comes true by Susan J Tweit: Beautifully researched and written story, Michelle...
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Hunting by Steve: But. Simply because you eat the animal does not au...
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The easy way to purify our geography | We can't change the names of places that were name...
Kicking and screaming, the BLM makes a deal | The petroglyphs at Nine Mile Canyon in Utah are fi...

Prodigal Dogs | Evidence suggests that wolves may have returned to...
Breakdown | California's Westlands irrigation district wants t...
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Disposable Workers of the Oil and Gas Fields | Without a college degree, work on the oil and gas ...
Mountains of mercury | The EPA has failed to regulate the mercury dischar...

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How the West was really won

Paul VanDevelder digs into the rotten core of the American experience in his new book, Savages & Scoundrels: The Untold Story of America’s Road to Empire through Indian Territory.
Finding freedom in Yosemite

Shelton Johnson's novel Gloryland traces the adventurous life of Elijah Yancy, a young man of black and Indian heritage, who roams the West in the 19th century.
The genesis of the West

Douglas Brinkley’s magisterial The Wilderness Warrior describes how Teddy Roosevelt created the American West we love today.

Legal pyro

How Tahoe National Forest fire chief Jeanne Pincha-Tulley rose to the top rank of Forest Service disaster management.
Return of the pod man

Arizona farmer Mark Moody raises mesquite trees for food and furniture.
Avalanche education for all

In Ketchum, Idaho, Janet Kellam tries to educate the locals about the danger of avalanches.

Drive that Hummer

If you could find a Hummer that got perfect gas mileage and didn’t pollute, would you be willing to get behind the wheel?
Ending hunger

A New Mexico woman fights hunger by sending healthy snacks home with schoolchildren every Friday.
My brother, the bear

A Colorado woman copes with marauding bears, dead chickens and her beloved brother's schizophrenia.

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