Stories of the Working West
SUBMIT your story starting May 10, through midnight, June 6, 2010. VOTE for your favorites through midnight, June 20, 2010.
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Busted Beer Cans and Baby Culture
by Hoosiermuse (Jeff Muse) — Gary Snyder, Jack Kerouac and lookout tales in the North Cascades
Is Pot Farming in My Future?
A 52-year-old organic farmer looks at the twists of fate that have brought her to a difficult decision: Should she switch from vegetables to marijuana cultivation?
Wilderness and The Preservation of Work
designated wilderness has paradoxically preserved methods of work that were once used in wide scale resource extraction. Such work connects us with not only the history of the frontier but also our industrial past.
Sunburnt and saddlesore in the land of shining mountains
A story of the working West, and of a West that is working. Stewardship of western rangeland, using holistic management and planned grazing as a tool for economic, ecological, and social resilience.
Busted Beer Cans and Baby Culture
Gary Snyder, Jack Kerouac and lookout tales in the North Cascades
A Deer is a Deer and an Elk is an Elk
The true story of a humble, brilliant and humorous game biologist
Sagebrush Solitaire
True story about a bittersweet, personal experience on the Arizona Strip. A sagebrush solitaire.
State Park Ranger
A much too brief story about being a ranger in Northern California State Parks; they don't make rangers that way anymore.
Making It Work, Somehow
A short essay on what working in the West means to me. 22, Monticello Utah.
"Resilient" is often a word that is used to describe people who live and work in the American West, and many of these folks often have tough - but fulfilling - jobs. Share your ideas about how people (or animals, or machines) have helped make the West what it is today. Or, describe a person, group, project, job or idea that contributes in an important way to the West, whether it be at the local or regional level. It’s easy to sum up your perspective with a few paragraphs (up to about 900 words)! We promise, this is NOT an exam, so submit your entry today!
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