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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. Subscribers only

  • Field Day

    In some Western states, including Colorado, prison inmates are taking the place of immigrant farmworkers. Subscribers only

  • Alexandra Fuller: A fine line between protest and profession

    Author Alexandra Fuller talks about the impacts of oil drilling on her chosen home of Wyoming. Subscribers only

  • The street hierarchy

    Aaron Gilbreath mulls the very large difference between being a pedestrian in ultra-cool Portland, Ore., and in sprawling Phoenix, Ariz. Subscribers only

 

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  • Bear necessities

    Bear necessities

    Seth Cohen describes a close encounter with a grizzly – and an even closer encounter with grizzly-strength pepper spray.

  • 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.

  • Wildlife wars

    There’s fighting over the endangered status of wolves, sage grouse, etc., and protecting wildlife from drilling.

  • Acidifying oceans

    Paleo-oceanographer James Zachos points to evidence of the last time climate change acidified the oceans, some 55 million years ago.

  • 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. Subscribers only

  • Field Day

    In some Western states, including Colorado, prison inmates are taking the place of immigrant farmworkers. Subscribers only

  • 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

  • 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.

  • The GOAT Blog

    Power to the people

    Sevier County voters will decide the fate of a proposed coal-fired plant in November.

  • The GOAT Blog

    When spines aren't enough

    Saguaros soon to be embedded with microchips.

  • The GOAT Blog

    Bureau of Land Ravagement?

    The BLM has waived environmental review of energy projects thousands of times in Utah and Wyoming.

  • 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

  • The fruits of their labor

    The fruits of their labor

    In Delta County, Colorado, a pilot program sent prisoners to work on three farms during the summer of 2008.

  • Video: Still howling wolf

    The passionate and complicated feelings people have about living with wolves in the Northern Rockies.

  • 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).

  • 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

  • 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.

  • Battleground!

    HCN surveys the swingin' Western political landscape with this interactive map.

Water

Culture & Communities

  • On the Stegner trail

    Philip L. Fradkin looks at the life of an iconic Western author in Wallace Stegner and the American West.

  • The invisible man

    Chilean guest-worker Ricardo Arriagada herds goats that eat weeds to help prevent brush fires in Hercules, Calif.

Energy

Writers on the Range

Essays

  • Bear necessities

    Seth Cohen describes a close encounter with a grizzly – and an even closer encounter with grizzly-strength pepper spray.

  • 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

  • On the Stegner trail

    Philip L. Fradkin looks at the life of an iconic Western author in Wallace Stegner and the American West.

  • The creation of wholeness

    Terry Tempest Williams celebrates Rwanda, mosaics and Utah prairie dogs in her new book, Finding Beauty in a Broken World.

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