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  • When reverence isn't enough

    When reverence isn't enough

    Writer and philosopher Kathleen Dean Moore talks about water, family and the sacredness of landscapes. Subscribers only

  • Bicycles, books and beer

    Bicycles, books and beer

    Todd Simmons founded a bookstore, a journal and a publishing company in Fort Collins, Colo., on little more than a shoestring and a dream.

  • From Tuscany to the Mohave

    From Tuscany to the Mohave

    Guiseppena Bellandi Perry remembers the events -- and the husbands -- who brought her from her native Italy to the desert of Needles, Calif.

  • Nirvana on a backhoe

    Nirvana on a backhoe

    Kim Erion restores habitat using heavy equipment and a heartfelt connection to things like logs and rhododendrons.

  • Wild Turkey, gunfire and big pipelines

    Wild Turkey, gunfire and big pipelines

    Aaron Million wants to build a gigantic water pipeline all the way from southwest Wyoming to Colorado's Front Range.

  • Rise up swinging

    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.

  • The collected Sierra Nevada

    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.

  • Avalanches for dummies

    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.

  • A desert poet takes his work inside

    A desert poet takes his work inside

    Poet Richard Shelton has run writing workshops in Arizona prisons for more than 30 years.

  • Lessons of habitat

    Lessons of habitat

    Nancy Eastman created her own "habitat sculptures" modeled after fake cholla built as nesting habitat for endangered birds.

  • Justice for all

    Justice for all

    Jensie Anderson meets with homeless clients every Sunday underneath a Salt Lake City viaduct.

  • Notes from the (water) underground

    Research hydrologist Gordon Grant is fascinated by the groundwater in the Pacific Northwest.

  • 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.

  • John Daniel: A good animal, too

    John Daniel: A good animal, too

    The unlikely path to becoming an environmental writer, memoirist and poet.

  • For the birds

    Scott Rashid rescues and rehabilitates owls, eagles and other birds at his house in Estes Park, Colo.

  • Weekend Westerner

    Arthur Kruse rides the range – outside of Munich, Germany.

  • Burning issues

    Controversial forestry scientist Tom Bonnicksen believes increased logging is necessary to fight global warming.

  • The invisible man

    Chilean guest-worker Ricardo Arriagada herds goats that eat weeds to help prevent brush fires in Hercules, Calif.

  • 'Si, se puede'

    Latino activist Dolores Huerta continues to inspire and organize after 50 lively years.

  • Survival and the fittest

    Ultra-marathon runner Nikki Kimball races to keep her spirit strong and her personal demons at bay.

  • Non-Natives reporting the Native stories by Danielle: With so many fine Native American reporters, why a...
  • No by gjdfkd: You shouldnt kill the wolves. They are kind animal...
  • Poor ohvers by Longhunter: Well, I would hope that anyone with an advanced de...
  • RING ON ROADLESS by DAVID PETERSEN: Sorry Ray, but I have to add my voice to the choir...
  • Ahh, Audubon by Steve Snyder: Too bad, Tom Turner, that in places like Arizona ...
  1. Roadless-less | Judge Clarence Brimmer is determined to bring down...
  2. Socialism and the West | Despite our reflexive fear of the word "socialism,...
  3. Stubbornness and the art of riding a bicycle | Bike helmets are unbelievably ugly and dorky-looki...
  4. More gas, less grouse | Study predicts fewer sage grouse as energy develop...
  5. Eco-pawprints | New Zealand professors calculate pets' impacts on ...
  1. Death by a thousand wells | Unregulated domestic wells are straining water sup...
  2. Roadless-less | Judge Clarence Brimmer is determined to bring down...
  3. Socialism and the West | Despite our reflexive fear of the word "socialism,...
  4. Empty nest |
  5. Watts of water | Not all environmentalists believe that pumped hydr...

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