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  • 'Clinging hopelessly to the past'

    In his determination to cling, however hopelessly, to Utah’s past, Canyon Country Zephyr founder Jim Stiles has taken on miners, ranchers, developers, mountain bikers and – most recently – some of his fellow environmentalists

    by M. John Fayhee, May 29, 2006

  • 'Re-inhabitation' revisited

    The environmental and community challenges brought to Washington's Olympic Peninsula by runaway sprawl and development have some 're-inhabiting locals' almost nostalgic for the clear-cut timber companies of 30 years ago.

    by Tim McNulty, Nov 06, 2000

  • A eulogy for the West that was

    In Requiem for the West, Roger Brown laments the loss of soul and solitude in the small mountain towns of the Colorado Rockies

    by Paul Anderson, Jan 23, 2006

  • A feminist liberal looks back at age 90

    The writer, age 90, reminisces about her feminist activism.

    by Henrietta Hay, May 17, 2004

  • A green obsession

    Westerners, like most Americans, are deeply in love with their lawns – but in an time of increasing drought, the Kentucky bluegrass is going to have to go

    by Paul Larmer, Aug 21, 2006

  • A look at the West, in the funhouse mirror

    Old Westerners and New Westerners are equally hypocritical when it comes to caricaturing each other and not looking at themselves

    by Jim Stiles, Mar 21, 2005

  • A new civil rights movement is born in America

    The writer, a young immigrant from El Salvador, says a new civil rights movement is under way in America

    by Hector Gonzalez, Apr 10, 2006

  • A new twist on urbanism

    The Transportation and Land Use Collaborative in Southern California will hold a conference on "Latino New Urbanism"

    by Tim Sullivan, Aug 02, 2004

  • A teacher looks back at racism

    The writer talks about racism in rural Montana and how targets and responses to bigotry change.

    by Mary Scriber, Jan 30, 2006

  • A view of the West from on high

    In his essay collection Dragons in Paradise, George Sibley reminisces about his years in the funky mountain ski town of Crested Butte, Colorado

    by Matt Jenkins, May 30, 2005
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