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  • Two Weeks in the West

    A little wild

    Percentage of federally owned land and wilderness in Western states

  • Essays

    Underworld

    In a dark, narrow storm drain below the border town of Douglas, Ariz., eight illegal immigrants drowned in the summer of 1997

  • News

    States crack down on illegal immigrants

    With Congress stalled on immigration reform, Western states such as Colorado are tackling the issue with tough new laws

  • Writers on the Range

    Utah legislation endangers lands we hold dear

    The writer warns that a bill before Congress sets a bad precedent for selling off publicly owned land

  • Writers on the Range

    Is the great federal land debate over?

    The writer, a public policy professor in Idaho, warns that the impulse to sell off or trade public lands is only temporarily blocked

  • Writers on the Range

    Rainbow Gathering lacks one color — green

    The writer gives an eye-witness account of how her sheep-grazing allotment became home to thousands of Rainbow folks

  • Writers on the Range

    Fencing off Mexico is an ecological blunder

    The writer calls the fence on our southern border an ecological nightmare

  • Writers on the Range

    A silent victim of illegal immigration is our public lands

    The writer says we fail to count the costs of illegal border crossers to our public lands

  • Book Reviews

    Finding hope in a new land

    Farmworker’s Daughter: Growing Up Mexican in America is the story of Rose Castillo Guilbault’s childhood journey from Mexico’s Sonoran Desert to a new life in California’s Salinas Valley

  • Related Stories

    Hope

    After 16 years of living in the shadows in Pasco, Wash., Wendy and Erendira Santana finally win legal residency

  • Related Stories

    Contradiction

    Once in the U.S., immigrants find themselves in a land of contradictions, facing an uncertain welcome, sometimes even from other Latinos

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    Apprehension

    U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Officer John Schaefer is one of only two officers patrolling the 860,000 acres of Cabeza Prieta National Wildlife Refuge, a thoroughfare for illegal immigrants and armed drug smugglers

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    Perseverance

    Illegal border crossers face a dangerous journey filled with heat, dust, flies and thirst, and always the danger of capture and deportation

  • Related Stories

    Abandonment

    Small Mexican farming towns such as Francisco Villa in Sonora are emptied of their young men when the lack of good-paying local jobs sends them north of the border

  • Feature

    The Immigrant's Trail

    This special issue of High Country News takes an on-the-ground look at the human landscape of illegal immigration in the West

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