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  • News

    A river runs near it

    In Washington’s Yakima Valley and in northern Colorado, water developers want to build kindler, gentler “off-channel” reservoirs.

  • News

    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.

  • Essays

    Measuring Tahoe’s blues

    Jon Christensen accompanies scientists trying to measure the opacity and “blueness” of Lake Tahoe.

  • Letters

    A pitched battle on the Klamath

  • News

    Watch the river flow

    In western Colorado, Black Canyon of the Gunnison National Park wins an important water claim.

  • News

    Taos' return to the acequias

    38 years of meetings and a price-tag of $120 million formalize old agreements

  • Feature

    Peace on the Klamath

    For years, Native Americans, fishermen and farmers have battled over the Klamath River in southern Oregon and Northern California, but finally a complicated truce is in the works.

  • Book Reviews

    Rolling on the rivers

    The essays in Page Stegner’s Adios Amigos celebrate the fragile beauty of Western rivers and the lives of the artists and explorers who journeyed down them.

  • Winning the West

    Primer 4: Water

    Former HCN publisher concludes that those who live in the West must accept its unpredictability.

  • Editor's Note

    The elephant that was left out of the room …

    Indian tribes were left out of the negotiations that divvied up the Colorado River in 1922, but it’s no longer possible to ignore them – particularly in the case of the Navajo Nation.

  • Feature

    Seeking the Water Jackpot

    The Navajo Nation is determined to finally claim its rightful share of the Colorado River after 86 years of being left out of the region’s water politics.

  • Uncommon Westerners

    I was a closet environmentalist

    Roger Muggli might be the busiest man in eastern Montana, what with his family farm, his feed-pellet plant, his dedicated work on water issues and his quiet, steadfast environmentalism.

  • Feature

    The People of the Sea

    California’s Salton Sea is at a crossroads, but whether it dries up and blows away or is restored and rejuvenated, the future does not look bright for its resident renegades, retirees and recluses.

  • News

    Lakeside City

    Fiction: A child's road trip to the Salton Sea

  • News

    Hold the salt

    The largest wetland restoration project on the West Coast tackles the tidal marshes of San Francisco Bay.

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