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  • Riparian repair

    River restorationists tackle the Clark Fork River near Milltown, Mont., in a project that demonstrates how hard it is to revive a damaged waterway. Subscribers only

  • An unlikely Shangri-la

    Steve and Marc Jenson have ambitious plans to turn a failed ski resort near Beaver, Utah, into a private enclave for the ultra-rich, but not everyone is thrilled about the idea. Subscribers only

  • Crash of the cottonwoods

    Across the West, cottonwoods are dying, and no one is sure how to save these iconic trees. Subscribers only

  • Going to the gasroots

    In western Colorado, oil and gas companies mobilize in a publicity blitz to pack a Grand Junction hearing about proposed changes to the state’s natural gas drilling rules. Subscribers only

 

Category: Culture & Communities

  • Zane Grey’s West: Longing for the way it never was

    When she was 10 years old, Marty Durlin fell in the love with the romantic landscapes and purple prose of Western writer Zane Grey’s classic novels.

  • A town’s downtown is the new (old) way to live

    Bill Croke celebrates his brand-new, old-fashioned lifestyle: living upstairs in an old brick building in downtown Salmon, Idaho.

  • The old man and the stream

    A brief encounter with an elderly fisherman moves W.S. Robinson to think about the mysteries of life and death -- and fathers and sons.

  • An unforgettable journey

    In his second novel, So Brave, So Young, So Handsome, Leif Enger takes the reader on a journey across the American West, circa 1915.

  • The less you have, the less you have to lose

    Alan Kesselheim figures he’s already so poor, he’s recession-proof.

  • On a wing and a pledge

  • Snapshot

    A nonprofit deconstructs a trophy home near the Columbia Gorge.

  • Data

    Dems aim to go green at convention.

  • Downtown an old – and new – way to live

    Bill Croke celebrates his brand-new old-fashioned lifestyle: living upstairs in an old brick building in downtown Salmon Idaho.

  • Under the asphalt a rumor thrives

    In Grand Junction Colo. a team of investigators excavate a downtown parking lot in search of an old safe supposedly buried a century ago.

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