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Welcome to hard times
by Ed Quillen Nov 17, 2008 10:00 AMEd Quillen finds a silver lining behind the current economic clouds.
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The Doc is in
by Michelle Nijhuis, JT Thomas Nov 14, 2008 07:00 AMRural folks find common ground at a vet's office in Western Colorado.
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Let it mellow
by Melissa Hart Nov 10, 2008 09:20 AMMelissa Hart remembers her eccentric, independent great-grandmother, who taught her about reuse and recycling long before it was fashionable.
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Mayberry and Peyton Place
by Ed Quillen Nov 07, 2008 08:34 AMPublic policy has ravaged America's small towns, despite lip service by some politicians.
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Midnight in Montana
by Dorothee E. Kocks Oct 27, 2008 07:03 AMDorothee Kocks tingles with joy after a night spent listening to a live jazz sextet in a northwestern Montana mining town.
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Religion, politics and culture
by Jonathan Thompson Oct 23, 2008 07:00 AMWhen religion tries to dominate culture and politics, it hurts all three, as seen in the battle over the rights of gay Americans.
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Bear necessities
by Seth T. Cohen Oct 13, 2008 12:55 PMSeth Cohen describes a close encounter with a grizzly – and an even closer encounter with grizzly-strength pepper spray.
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A Western primer
by Jeff Lee, Laura Pritchett, Teresa Jordan, Stephen Trimble, William Debuys, Dan Flores, Linda Hasselstrom, Barry Lopez, Rick Bass, Debra Utacia Krol, Aaron Abeyta Sep 12, 2008 09:15 AMWestern writers offer a generous and inspired list of recommended reading for the president-elect, including a diverse collection of fiction and nonfiction.
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The old man and the stream
by W.S. Robinson Sep 01, 2008 08:47 PMA brief encounter with an elderly fisherman moves W.S. Robinson to think about the mysteries of life and death -- and fathers and sons.
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Under the asphalt a rumor thrives
by Michelle Nijhuis Aug 18, 2008 08:45 AMIn Grand Junction Colo. a team of investigators excavate a downtown parking lot in search of an old safe supposedly buried a century ago.
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Measuring Tahoe’s blues
by Jon Christensen Jul 29, 2008 05:30 PMJon Christensen accompanies scientists trying to measure the opacity and “blueness” of Lake Tahoe.
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Power of the picture
by Jonathan Thompson Jul 21, 2008 08:00 AMHigh Country News photographer Morgan Heim joins the International League of Conservation Photographers to document the gasfields and the wildlands around Pinedale, Wyo.
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Home is where the guilt is
by April Reese Jul 21, 2008 12:00 AMIn Santa Fe, N.M., April Reese wrestles with the question of whether owning a new house is worth being responsible for the bulldozing of pinon and juniper trees.
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Credo: The People’s West
by Stephen Trimble Jul 16, 2008 03:45 PMPhotographer Stephen Trimble offers suggestions for how citizens and communities can reinvent their relationship with the Western landscape.
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The luckiest horse in Reno
by Deanne Stillman Jul 16, 2008 03:45 PMAfter a herd of wild horses is massacred in Nevada, Deanne Stillman ponders the bones in the desert.
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Conservation groups come and go. Why?
by Pat Munday Jul 16, 2008 03:45 PMPat Munday decries the “professionalization” of environmental groups.
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The amphibian heart
by Aaron Gilbreath May 26, 2008 12:00 PMAaron Gilbreath rescues red-spotted toads and wishes he could preserve the unraveling strands of his grandmother’s memory.
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Too many elk and not enough tough love
by Jeff Welsch May 26, 2008 12:00 PMJeff Welsch decries the “ungulate welfare” on display in the overcrowded winter feeding grounds of Wyoming’s National Elk Refuge.
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Coffeepots and climate
by Shane Bondi Jul 16, 2008 03:43 PMShane Bondi seeks to understand the connection between a lump of coal, a power plant and that first cup of coffee in the morning.
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The mysticism of mud
by Ernest Atencio May 12, 2008 12:00 PMErnest Atencio ponders an exceptionally muddy Mud Season in New Mexico, and notes how readily most Westerners forget that we live in an arid landscape.









