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The Doc is in

Rural folks find common ground at a vet's office in Western Colorado.
Victory came from the bottom up

A vast army of determined volunteers were the force behind Obama’s success in Colorado.
Slideshow: The unflappable Doc Vincent

In rural western Colorado, a vet tends to pets and their humans. Michelle Nijhuis reads her essay, along with slides by JT Thomas.
Conscientious objectors 65 years ago

Paying homage to those imprisoned at Mancos Camp, Colo., during World War II.
Stuck in the PAWGmire

The Pinedale Anticline Working Group was supposed to give citizens input on the local oil and gas boom, but it hasn’t worked out as planned.

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Burning issues

Controversial forestry scientist Tom Bonnicksen believes increased logging is necessary to fight global warming.
Still Howling Wolf

Ranchers and environmentalists in Wyoming are still squabbling over wolves as the animal bounces on and off the endangered species list.
Liquid assets

California is enthusiastic about creating “water banks” to help the state’s cities weather future droughts.
Field Day

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

energy November 19, 2008 by Rebecca Huntington
Stuck in the PAWGmire

How the BLM failed Pinedale
flora & fauna November 17, 2008 by Jane Braxton Little
Burning Issues

Controversial forestry scientist believes logging will combat global warming
climate & pollution November 14, 2008 by April Reese
Who'll clean up when the party's over?

Efforts to reclaim oil and gas drilling sites are too little, too late.
culture & communities November 12, 2008 by Michelle Nijhuis
The Doc is in

At a rural veterinary office in Colorado, pets and their folks find common ground

Slideshow: The unflappable Doc Vincent

Audio: An unlikely senator goes to Washington

Oregon's Jeff Merkley wants to "change the world" as part of the new Democratic majority in the U.S. Senate.
Stuck in the PAWGmire

The Pinedale Anticline Working Group was supposed to give citizens input on the local oil and gas boom, but it hasn’t worked out as planned.
Conscientious objectors 65 years ago

Paying homage to those imprisoned at Mancos Camp, Colo., during World War II.
Welcome to hard times

Ed Quillen finds a silver lining behind the current economic clouds.
The Doc is in

Rural folks find common ground at a vet's office in Western Colorado.
Victory came from the bottom up

A vast army of determined volunteers were the force behind Obama’s success in Colorado.
Democrats rise again in the Rockies

Rob Saldin looks at the reasons why the Democrats finally succeeded in breaking the Republican chokehold on the West.

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Mambo like only bureaucracy can

The strange dance of the regional and national offices of the EPA
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Mrs. T. Boone Pickens to the (horse) rescue

Billionaire's wife offers to adopt 30,000 wild horses.
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Already one Westerner gets job in Obama admin

Montana poli sci grad Jim Messina will be a White House staffer.
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Administration publishes final oil shale regs

Oil shale leasing will be allowed on nearly 2 million acres, at least until Obama overturns the new rules.
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Dam deal advances Bush's Klamath River agenda

Will salmon advocates win the battle for dam removal but lose the Klamath salmon war?

Slideshow: The unflappable Doc Vincent

In rural western Colorado, a vet tends to pets and their humans. Michelle Nijhuis reads her essay, along with slides by JT Thomas.
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).

Audio: An unlikely senator goes to Washington

Oregon's Jeff Merkley wants to "change the world" as part of the new Democratic majority in the U.S. Senate.
Conscientious objectors 65 years ago

Paying homage to those imprisoned at Mancos Camp, Colo., during World War II.

Liquid assets

California is enthusiastic about creating “water banks” to help the state’s cities weather future droughts.
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.

More Water

Welcome to hard times

Ed Quillen finds a silver lining behind the current economic clouds.
The Doc is in

Rural folks find common ground at a vet's office in Western Colorado.

Stuck in the PAWGmire

The Pinedale Anticline Working Group was supposed to give citizens input on the local oil and gas boom, but it hasn’t worked out as planned.
Snapshot

The declining value of clean energy stocks reflects the credit crunch and the plunge in oil and gas prices after earlier highs.

More Energy

Conscientious objectors 65 years ago

Paying homage to those imprisoned at Mancos Camp, Colo., during World War II.
Victory came from the bottom up

A vast army of determined volunteers were the force behind Obama’s success in Colorado.

Welcome to hard times

Ed Quillen finds a silver lining behind the current economic clouds.
The Doc is in

Rural folks find common ground at a vet's office in Western Colorado.

More Essays

Throwing off the yoke

Where the Ox Does Not Plow: A Mexican American Ballad is Manuel Peña’s memoir of his childhood as an immigrant farmworker.
A battle for the land – and soul – of the West

In Bargaining for Eden: The Fight for the Last Open Spaces in America, photographer Stephen Trimble tells the story of the controversial Snowbasin ski development in Utah.