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  • Writers on the Range

    Of an environmental hero and the need for reform

    Paul Larmer reminds us that it will take more than a single environmental hero – like Tim DeChristopher, who cleverly sabotaged a BLM energy-lease auction – to reform the agency.

  • Writers on the Range

    Forest Service skips a chance to do things right

    Rather than take an honest, in-depth look at the trails and roads on its land, Sarah Peters says the Forest Service took the easy way out.

  • Writers on the Range

    This is the time to make land management make sense

    Ed Quillen has suggestions for how to fix the West by consolidating the federal land agencies and charging people to build in Stupid Zones.

  • News

    Not so dead on arrival

    Thanks to the incompetence of the Bush administration and the tenacity of environmental lawyers, the Roadless Rule has survived for 8 years.

  • Book Reviews

    A battle for the land – and soul – of the West

    In Bargaining for Eden: The Fight for the Last Open Spaces in America, photographer Stephen Trimble tells the story of the controversial Snowbasin ski development in Utah.

  • Letters

    River giveaway, too

  • Letters

    An eye on the agencies

  • Feature The coming quake

    The coming quake

    Scientists are studying the southern San Andreas Fault to help Southern California prepare for future earthquakes.

  • West Watch

    The end of Western welfare?

    Paul VanDevelder considers the consequences of “capitalism without a conscience” and predicts the end of free lunches for the West.

  • Writers on the Range One species versus 1.8 million others

    One species versus 1.8 million others

    Susan Tweit sees the growing tally of roadkill as a sign that there are too many humans threatening ecological balance.

  • Letters

    Keep 'em down on the farm

  • Letters

    Wet dreams

  • Letters

    Don't eat the rich, tax them

  • Book Reviews

    Portrait of a threatened land

    In Travels in the Greater Yellowstone, Jack Turner celebrates and fights for the preservation of an incredible but endangered landscape.

  • Letters

    Peace on the Gila, too?

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