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  • Writers on the Range Real hunters get the lead out

    Real hunters get the lead out

    Lead bullets are harmful to hunters as well as to the environment.

  • Current Taming the River Wild

    Taming the River Wild

    Proposals to make dangerous rapids safer rouse controversy among avid river-users.

  • Multimedia Down the Black Hole

    Down the Black Hole

    This summer, journalist Jeremy Miller descended two notorious Utah slot canyons with an equally notorious guide.

  • Uncommon Westerners

    His photographs trace the passage of time

    Photographer Mark Klett has made an art of rephotographing Western landscapes first documented about 100 years ago

  • Perspective Why not fees on Fourteeners?

    Why not fees on Fourteeners?

    A Forest Service proposal to charge fees at popular Fourteeners might result in fewer tourists -- who spend more.

  • Editor's Note

    Culture of the Canyon

    When the author ventures down the Colorado on a raft, he discovers a world of wonders -- and a little bit of himself.

  • News Recreation on the range

    Recreation on the range

    A sheepdog attack highlights conflicts between recreators and ranchers in Colorado's increasingly popular national forests.

  • Writers on the Range Got your elk yet?

    Got your elk yet?

    It's the question of the season, one that assumes that if you live in the West, you must hunt.

  • Focus Conservation for the Adrenaline Crowd

    Conservation for the Adrenaline Crowd

    Environmentalists in the Roaring Fork Valley of Colorado have struggled to get recreationists behind their causes.

  • Book Reviews Books for lonely times

    Books for lonely times

    When you're camped all alone in the wilderness, there is nothing like a book to bring you comfort.

  • Two Weeks in the West Our best idea

    Our best idea

    A family trip out West in 1959, when he was 9 years old, inspired Dayton Duncan to make a new documentary series with Ken Burns, called The National Parks: America’s Best Idea.

  • Writers on the Range My home on a glacier

    My home on a glacier

    The memory of two summers spent working as a dogsled guide on a glacier in Alaska will never melt away.

  • Essays The dictionary reader

    The dictionary reader

    What kind of person spends the whole summer stuck inside a cabin reading the dictionary?

  • Writers on the Range Riding the rails -- upscale

    Riding the rails -- upscale

    It may not be as romantic as hopping freight cars in a Woody Guthrie song, but Amtrak is the nicest way to travel across the West.

  • Writers on the Range Finally, a burger with a taste of place

    Finally, a burger with a taste of place

    Next time you visit the Grand Canyon, stop in Flagstaff for a delicious Diablo burger made from locally raised organic beef.

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