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  • Dear friends

    Thanks to readers for Research Fund gifts and the many responses to HCN’s survey; visitors

    by Greg Hanscom and Jodi Peterson, Nov 14, 2005

  • Credo: The People’s West

    Photographer Stephen Trimble offers suggestions for how citizens and communities can reinvent their relationship with the Western landscape.

    by Stephen Trimble, Jun 23, 2008

  • A fractured party

    The Grand Old Party will either find a new life – or court self-destruction – in the West today, where moderates and hard-liners are battling over conservation issues.

    by Ray Ring, Jul 21, 2008

  • The end of ‘analysis paralysis’?

    The Forest Service has overhauled its cumbersome forest-planning process, but many experts say the agency may have gone too far.

    by Jodi Peterson, Feb 19, 2007

  • The conservation hall of fame is too small

    The brothers Stewart and Mo Udall are two of the West’s conservation heroes, and their sons, Rep. Tom Udall of New Mexico and Rep. Mark Udall of Colorado, have very large shoes to fill in their own work for the Western landscape

    by Paul Larmer, Oct 11, 2004

  • Wandering into wolf territory

    In his book Vicious: Wolves and Men in America, Jon T. Coleman explores the history of how the wolf was slowly transformed from vermin to be cruelly slaughtered into a noble calendar pinup

    by Michelle Nijhuis, Oct 11, 2004

  • Hunting: It’s not about the gun

    In the presidential election this fall, sportsmen are likely to be split between those who vote for wildlife, and those who vote for the gun

    by Tom Reed, Oct 11, 2004

  • Don’t expect Washington to lead the West

    The West needs to take charge of its own destiny, and become more than just a political game piece in the presidential election

    by Greg Hanscom, Oct 25, 2004

  • Despair not one more day

    Paul Rogat Loeb’s inspirational anthology The Impossible Will Take a Little While, lives up to its subtitle; it’s truly "a citizen’s guide to hope in a time of fear"

    by Laura Paskus, Oct 25, 2004

  • Politics as a winner-takes-all game is a loser

    It would be a grave mistake for President Bush to assume that his recent victory gives license for a winner-take-all power grab in the West

    by Paul Larmer, Nov 22, 2004
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