Uncommon Westerners
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Tireless and tenacious storytelling
Lori Edmo-Suppah works tirelessly to keep the Shoshone-Bannock Tribes informed through the newspaper she edits, the Sho-Ban News
by Ray Ring, Dec 24, 2007 -
In a run-down neighborhood, there's lots of love
In a hardscrabble neighborhood in northeast Denver, Lorraine Granado fights for environmental justice
by Julie Dugdale, Jun 13, 2005 -
Safety first
Steve Ficklin is an oil and gas safety inspector for the Bureau of Land Management in western Colorado
by Stephanie Paige Ogburn, Aug 21, 2006 -
Where there's fire, there's global warming
Climate scientist Anthony Westerling is working to illuminate the connection between rising global temperatures and the increasing ferocity of the West’s forest fires
by Matt Jenkins, Aug 07, 2006 -
Raul Grijalva relishes a good fight
Arizona Congressman Raul Grijalva loves fighting for old-fashioned liberal causes like immigration rights, the environment, unions and strong social programs
by Renee Guillory, Jul 24, 2006 -
Stargazer aims his scopes at gas industry
Astronomer Perry Walker uses his stargazing tools and skills to work with the oil and gas industry to prevent air pollution in Wyoming
by Ray Ring, May 01, 2006 -
Dinosaur tracks on a desert shore
When drought shrank Lake Powell this summer, paleontologist Martin Lockley went to work scouring the shoreline for newly revealed rare dinosaur tracks in the sandstone
by Michelle Nijhuis, Sep 19, 2005 -
Painting for progress
Artist Joan Hoffman pours her love of wilderness into her paintings, and uses her art as a way to fight for the environment
by Jennie Lay, Mar 20, 2006 -
Jim Detterline to the rescue
Park Ranger Jim Detterline battles the agency he loves over its insistence that a hearing impairment makes him unfit for his job.
by Michelle Blank, Dec 10, 2007 -
Tripping over T-Rex
Paleontologist Bob Harmon loves nothing better than digging for old bones under the hot Montana sun
by Melynda Harrison, Apr 30, 2007 -
Bay bags his way to the top
Brian Bay of Sandy, Utah, is the world champion of grocery-store baggers, following his triumph at the National Grocers Association Best Bagger Competition.
by Michelle Blank, Apr 16, 2007 -
Lewis’ Web
Wyoming microbiologist Randy Lewis is fascinated by spiders – particularly by the remarkable silk they produce.
by Erin Halcomb, Apr 02, 2007 -
Busy as a Buchmann
Ecologist Stephan Buchmann is crazy about bees, and his Tucson-based one-man nonprofit, The Bee Works, is simply buzzing with activity.
by Brendan Borrell, Mar 19, 2007 -
Spinner of yarns, maker of floats
Black George Simmons – an 84-year-old park volunteer with a flair for colorful stories – dishes out root beer floats to anyone who visits his tiny log cabin in Grand Teton National Park.
by Ray Sikorski, Oct 01, 2007 -
Sculpting a reason to love the wind
Gary Bates creates mammoth metal sculptures out of discarded junk and sets them outside to turn and spin in the wind
by Ray Sikorski, Aug 20, 2007 -
Changing the world, one car at a time
Greg Rock, co-founder of the Green Car Company in Seattle, is determined to help the world drive into a greener and more sustainable future
by Alex Baron, Aug 06, 2007 -
Worth the work
Jeremias Pink fixes up bikes and gives them away because he loves his town, Pocatello, Idaho
by Andy Lilley, Jun 25, 2007 -
John Nichols and his 19th miracle
Writer John Nichols is still fighting the good fight in Taos, N.M.
by Erin Halcomb, Jun 11, 2007 -
Fightin’ against the feds
Utah state Rep. Mike Noel is still fighting the federal government over Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument
by Michelle Blank, May 28, 2007 -
Saving the Sierra, tale by tale
Independent radio producers Catherine Stifter and jesikah maria ross are trying to help the Sierra Nevada by preserving the stories of the people who live there
by Jane Braxton Little, May 14, 2007
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