Book Reviews
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Idaho's unsettling sediment
Government study shows Idaho's Lake Coeur d'Alene contaminated by mining sediments.
by John Rosapepe, Feb 07, 1994 -
Agriculture in the round
Agricultural Outlook Forum set for Denver.
by Staff, Feb 07, 1994 -
Slip sliding away
International Erosion Control Association plans conference.
by Staff, Feb 07, 1994 -
Taking back Santa Fe
Take Back Santa Fe group wants to rein in runaway development.
by Staff, Feb 07, 1994 -
Meloy's last message — from bighorn country
In Eating Stone, her last book, Ellen Meloy tells the eloquent, passionate story of the time she spent studying the Blue Door Band of desert bighorn sheep
by Stephen J. Lyons, Oct 03, 2005 -
Island Hoping
In On Oct. 19, 2002, a group of people working to preserve the diversity of the Sky Islands is holding a one-day conference to promote awareness of the region.
by staff, Sep 15, 2002 -
A life of brutal grace
The Boy Who Invented Skiing" is the memoir of Swain Wolfe, who spent his boyhood in a Colorado Springs tuberculosis sanatorium in the '30s
by Mary Sojourner, Sep 04, 2006 -
Destroyer of worlds
In 109 East Palace, the granddaughter of one of the Manhattan Project's administrators re-examines the story of the atomic bomb built in Los Alamos
by Lee Ross, Sep 04, 2006 -
Endangered Species 101 — in poetry
The Dire Elegies laments the plight of North America's endangered wildlife in poetic detail
by Jennie Lay, Sep 04, 2006 -
Bearable ways to deal with bruins
Linda Masterson’s new book, Living With Bears, is a good-humored, practical guide to getting along with black bears in the West
by Ann Bryant, Aug 21, 2006 -
Loss and renewal in the Northwest
Steven Radosevich writes simple, painful, personal essays about the changing landscape of the Pacific Northwest in his new book, Good Wood: Growth, Loss and Renewal.
by Annie Dawid, Aug 21, 2006 -
For the love of a river
In the anthology There’s This River, Christa Sadler gathers the stories of rambunctious river rafters on the Grand Canyon’s Colorado River
by Renee Guillory, Aug 21, 2006 -
Dust in the wind
In his new book, The Worst Hard Time, Tim Egan interviews survivors to tell the story of the great American Dust Bowl on the southern Great Plains in the 1930s
by Gail Binkly, Jul 24, 2006 -
A world built on groundwater
In Ogallala Blue: Water and Life on the Great Plains, William Ashworth examines the effects of groundwater dependency in a dry land
by Matt Jenkins, Jul 24, 2006 -
The merry — and meditative — farmer
In Blithe Tomato, Mike Madison writes engagingly about working the land on a small farm in California’s Central Valley
by Laura Paskus, Jul 24, 2006 -
One war that's worth the fight
In his memoir, Walking It Off, wilderness activist Doug Peacock tries to make sense of a life spent dealing with war, fighting for wilderness, and coping with cantankerous friends like the late Ed Abbey
by Laura Paskus, Jun 26, 2006 -
A season of love — and secrets
In his new novel, The Whistling Season, Ivan Doig explores the emotional life of settlers in Marias Coulee, Mont., in 1909
by Stephen J Lyons, Jun 26, 2006 -
Nuestra America
In Translation Nation, Hector Tobar looks at the new Latino immigrants and examines the way the immigration experience has changed in America
by Mark E Hayes, Jun 26, 2006 -
Climate-change clues — in tropical glaciers
In Thin Ice: Unlocking the Secrets of Climate in the World’s Highest Mountain Ranges, mountain climber and physicist Mark Bowen follows researchers who are finding clues to climate change in high-altitude tropical glaciers
by John Krist, Jun 26, 2006 -
Making room for wolves
In the anthology Comeback Wolves, 50 Western writers talk about the complex emotional – and practical – responses evoked by the return of this iconic predator
by Matt Jenkins, Jun 12, 2006
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