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Writers on the Range
The state of Montana is leading the way in the fight to destroy the bizarre
legal fiction that corporations are people.
by Ray Ring,
May 22, 2012
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Writers on the Range
A writer’s mother -- like an increasing number of Westerners -- is pretty determined that when her time comes, she wants to go down in flames, via cremation.
by Marian Lyman Kirst,
May 18, 2012
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Writers on the Range
Scientist and writer Rachel Carson's intelligence, courage and love for life are remembered on the 50th anniversary of her groundbreaking book "Silent Spring."
by Carol Carson,
May 17, 2012
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Writers on the Range
The West's gay teenagers are too often ignored -- abandoned by their
families to live on the streets or in overcrowded homeless shelters.
by Tim Lydon,
May 11, 2012
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Writers on the Range
Eastern Colorado’s Pawnee Buttes have witnessed so many historical
changes that they’re likely to survive the current energy-development boom.
by Allan Best,
May 11, 2012
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Writers on the Range
Some Western legislators want to sell off our public lands -- an idea that is
not only impractical, but contrary to the desires of most Westerners.
by Jeff Welsch,
May 10, 2012
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Writers on the Range
Remembering Micah True – known as “Caballo Blanco,” or the white horse – a gifted athlete who devoted his life to helping the Tarahumara, a remote tribe of long-distance runners in Mexico’s Copper Canyon.
by Hal Walter,
May 04, 2012
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Writers on the Range
A proposal to reopen slaughterhouses in the U.S. for old, unwanted, abandoned or wild horses is a cruel and foolish idea.
by Mae Lee Sun,
May 02, 2012
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Writers on the Range
With the help of his wife, Connie, and a bunch of determined fellow ranchers, the late Doc Hatfield helped change the face of public-lands ranching in the West.
by Ed Marston,
Apr 27, 2012
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Writers on the Range
Some hunters claim wolves are killing too many deer and elk in northwestern Montana, but the facts indicate otherwise -- although those facts are easily lost in all the emotional rhetoric.
by Christina Nealson,
Apr 26, 2012
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Writers on the Range
The controversy that flared when a trapper posted a photo of himself with a dying wolf proves that Idaho and other Western states are incapable of managing wolves without the help of the Endangered Species Act.
by Michael J. Robinson,
Apr 25, 2012
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Writers on the Range
When a trapper posted photos of himself with a dying wolf on Facebook, the resulting angry, hate-filled uproar on the Internet accomplished nothing useful.
by Erin Zwiener,
Apr 24, 2012
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Writers on the Range
National Park Service ranger Robert Danno is still being punished by the agency he loves, despite being vindicated for his work as a whistleblower eight years ago.
by Andrea Lankford,
Apr 20, 2012
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Writers on the Range
A second-generation forest ranger considers how fire prevention and climate change are affecting the forests he once roamed with his father.
by Frank Carroll,
Apr 18, 2012
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Writers on the Range
If an allegedly untouched piece of woodland is "virgin forest," what does that make a forest that’s been logged or burnt or otherwise used by humans over the years?
by Sharon Friedman,
Apr 13, 2012
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