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In the quest for the ultimate firefighting machine, the BLM in Nevada has turned to some very big, very strange, and very foreign vehicles.
A brief encounter with an elderly fisherman moves W.S. Robinson to think about the mysteries of life and death -- and fathers and sons.
Andrew McNair, who works weekends at a computer in Olympia, Wash., is not your typical Western firefighter.
Judy Muller contemplates the humble porcupine, which is wreaking havoc among pricey houses in Telluride Mountain Village.
Monique Cole wonders if a 6,500-square-foot “green-powered” McMansion is a contradiction in terms.
River restorationists tackle the Clark Fork River near Milltown, Mont., in a project that demonstrates how hard it is to revive a damaged waterway.
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.
Across the West, cottonwoods are dying, and no one is sure how to save these iconic trees.
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.
Once denounced by many environmentalists, ranching is finally getting some respect, and Courtney White feels that it’s about time.
New enforcement of rural property tax laws could price out longtime residents in northern New Mexico counties.
Migratory beekeeper John Miller hauls his hives across the West, pollinating everything from almonds to apples, but a nasty parasite and a mysterious disorder are making life much harder for John and his buzzing business partners.
Slaughter ban backfires for U.S. horses
In her new novel, The Berkeley Pit, Dorothy Bryant intertwines the stories of two very different Berkeleys: The California college town during the ‘60s, and the famously toxic open-pit mine in Butte, Mont.
Commentary: states trying to maneuver around feds' failure to act
In response to recent E. coli outbreaks, corporate buyers are pushing California farmers to rid their fields of all wildlife and wild vegetation – despite the fact that this could make the food supply even less safe.
After 18 years, agreements pave the way for a mine on Buckhorn Mountain
This year, Ari LeVaux is breaking with his own tradition and planting his vegetable garden from starts rather than seeds.
Utah’s Lisbon Valley Mine was supposed to be a hugely profitable copper producer; instead, it went belly-up in just two years.
