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  • Talking vegetarianism to a hunter

    Talking vegetarianism to a hunter

    An airplane chat between a vegetarian and a hunter yields unexpected common ground, largely over a mutual love and respect for wildlife.

    by Brendan Leonard, Jun 04, 2012
  • Coping with two-headed fish and other effects of selenium

    Coping with two-headed fish and other effects of selenium

    Researchers try to determine if unhealthy amounts of selenium are entering Western soil and water due to energy development.

    by Danielle Venton, May 29, 2012

  • New grazing rules ride on doctored science

    The Bureau of Land Management rewrote a scientific report critical of its new grazing rules, and two veteran scientists have quit the agency in protest

    by Tony Davis, Jul 25, 2005

  • The grasslands — humanity's big backyard

    In Sonoita Plain: Views from a Southwestern Grassland, biologists Carl and Jane Bock convey the subtle beauty of the wildlife and people of Arizona’s Sonoita Valley.

    by Michelle Nijhuis, Sep 19, 2005
  • John Mionczynski: naturalist, accordionist, and Bigfoot expert

    John Mionczynski: naturalist, accordionist, and Bigfoot expert

    In rural Wyoming, naturalist John Mionczynski plays piano, restores motorcycles, studies wildlife and tracks down evidence for the mysterious creature known as Sasquatch.

    by Emilene Ostlind, Feb 08, 2012

  • Bearable ways to deal with bruins

    Linda Masterson’s new book, Living With Bears, is a good-humored, practical guide to getting along with black bears in the West

    by Ann Bryant, Aug 21, 2006

  • Prey at the waterhole

    The experience of watching a mountain lion is utterly transformed when the watcher realizes he is the one being watched

    by Craig Childs, Jul 24, 2006

  • Making room for wolves

    In the anthology Comeback Wolves, 50 Western writers talk about the complex emotional – and practical – responses evoked by the return of this iconic predator

    by Matt Jenkins, Jun 12, 2006
  • Beware of wolves cloaked in "access"

    Beware of wolves cloaked in "access"

    The so-called Wilderness and Roadless Release Act promises greater access to public lands, but will actually end up harming the wild lands most Westerners love.

    by Ben Long, Sep 19, 2011
  • Just a few moments in Yellowstone

    Just a few moments in Yellowstone

    In a quiet, solitary hour at Yellowstone, nothing seems to happen -- and everything does.

    by Alan Kesselheim, Sep 01, 2011
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