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Rise up swinging
Twenty-year-old Duran “Junior” Caferro wants to be a good father, encourage healthcare reform – and knock down whoever comes up against him in the boxing ring.
by Gabriel Furshong, Jun 09, 2009 -
The collected Sierra Nevada
Meteorologist Hal Klieforth has collected a lifetime of knowledge – and a museum’s worth of artifacts – from years spent exploring the Sierra Nevada.
by Terray Sylvester , Apr 28, 2009 -
Avalanches for dummies
A certified crash-test dummy known as Homer helps Montana engineering professor Robb Larson study the effects of avalanches on the human body.
by Andrea Clark Mason , Apr 14, 2009 -
A desert poet takes his work inside
Poet Richard Shelton has run writing workshops in Arizona prisons for more than 30 years.
by Ray Ring , Mar 06, 2009 -
Lessons of habitat
Nancy Eastman created her own "habitat sculptures" modeled after fake cholla built as nesting habitat for endangered birds.
by Terray Sylvester, Feb 26, 2009 -
Justice for all
Jensie Anderson meets with homeless clients every Sunday underneath a Salt Lake City viaduct.
by Emily Steinmetz, Feb 09, 2009 -
Notes from the (water) underground
Research hydrologist Gordon Grant is fascinated by the groundwater in the Pacific Northwest.
by Jane Braxton Little , Jan 16, 2009 -
Off the grid, but not off his rocker
Moab cartoonist Travis Kelly lives in a solar school bus, and creates political cartoons to stay sane.
by Erika Jones, Dec 31, 2008 -
John Daniel: A good animal, too
The unlikely path to becoming an environmental writer, memoirist and poet.
by Melissa Hart, Dec 19, 2008 -
For the birds
Scott Rashid rescues and rehabilitates owls, eagles and other birds at his house in Estes Park, Colo.
by Michelle Blank , Dec 04, 2008 -
Weekend Westerner
Arthur Kruse rides the range – outside of Munich, Germany.
by Joslyn Green, Nov 21, 2008 -
Burning issues
Controversial forestry scientist Tom Bonnicksen believes increased logging is necessary to fight global warming.
by Jane Braxton Little, Nov 10, 2008 -
The invisible man
Chilean guest-worker Ricardo Arriagada herds goats that eat weeds to help prevent brush fires in Hercules, Calif.
by Emma Brown and Carlos Davalos, Oct 13, 2008 -
'Si, se puede'
Latino activist Dolores Huerta continues to inspire and organize after 50 lively years.
by Rebecca Clarren, Jul 18, 2008 -
Survival and the fittest
Ultra-marathon runner Nikki Kimball races to keep her spirit strong and her personal demons at bay.
by Ray Sikorski, Jun 23, 2008 -
Warp, weft and Wal-Mart
Navajo weaver Marie Begay makes beautiful rugs from the wool of the sheep she raises, and looks forward to spending the money she earns at Wal-Mart.
by Joslyn Green, Jul 16, 2008 -
Population’s Paul Revere?
Frosty Wooldridge sees himself as a kind of Paul Revere, tirelessly warning the West about overpopulation – especially in the form of illegal immigrants.
by Marty Durlin, May 26, 2008 -
Keeper of the wildlife
Biologist Les Bighorn, a Dakota Sioux, works to restore the swift fox to its native landscape on the Fort Peck Sioux and Assiniboine Reservation.
by Cathy Moser, Apr 28, 2008 -
A Montana rancher stands his ground against subdivision
An 86-year-old lifelong rancher named Vernon Gliko is donating his entire 1,800-acre Montana ranch as a conservation easement.
by Ray Sikorski, Apr 14, 2008 -
Native Intelligence
Lili Singer is in love with California’s native plants and wants to share that love with other people.
by Erika Schickel, Mar 31, 2008
