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  • Multimedia Audio: Soule on Wolves

    Audio: Soule on Wolves

    A conversation between Michelle Nijhuis and conservation biologist Michael Soule.

  • Writers on the Range Without big government, where would we be?

    Without big government, where would we be?

    It's easy to get nostalgic about American life 100 years ago -- unless you think about what life was like back then, especially for women.

  • Writers on the Range Bear witness to climate change

    Bear witness to climate change

    To imagine what your corner of the West will be like in a warmer climate, consider how different plants and animals are at a lower elevation. Subscribers only

  • Writers on the Range How to play the gardening game

    How to play the gardening game

    Now is the time to get out the seed catalogs and start planning this year's garden.

  • Writers on the Range Marijuana stores get no respect

    Marijuana stores get no respect

    Marijuana should be legal for recreational as well as medical uses, as long as it’s taxed and nobody drives under the influence. Subscribers only

  • Writers on the Range A cheer for Interior Secretary Salazar's new approach

    A cheer for Interior Secretary Salazar's new approach

    Interior Secretary Ken Salazar is not to blame for the oil and gas industry’s economic problems

  • Two Weeks in the West Poltertics, 2010

    Poltertics, 2010

    "They're ba-a-ackk!": Enviro-boogeymen return from the dead as Republicans like Richard Pombo seek a comeback.

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  • Hunting by Steve: But. Simply because you eat the animal does not au...
  • great article by Michael Kirkpatrick: Thanks, Michelle! It's really a treat to read such...
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Book Reviews

  • 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.

Uncommon Westerners

  • 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.

Essays

  • 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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