Uncommon Westerners
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A former energy company lawyer now fights for the other side
Attorney Lance Astrella represents landowners coping with oil and gas development on their doorsteps.
by April Reese, Jul 29, 2011 -
Montana's top gun-rights advocate has a national impact
Gary Marbut's case for state rights in gun regulations is spreading from Montana to the rest of the country.
by Camillia Lanham and Ray Ring, Jul 13, 2011 -
Richard Reynolds, raptor man
The biologist has spent 21 years counting goshawks and other raptors in Arizona's Kaibab National Forest.
by Leath Tonino, May 30, 2011 -
Bridging American Indian students' scientific achievement gap
Educator Michael Ceballos breaks down the barriers keeping young Native Americans from careers in science.
by Erica Gies, May 11, 2011 -
Jeff Rice collects nature's noises
Jeff Rice records the natural sounds of the West.
by Michael Engelhard , Feb 27, 2011 -
Activist brings diversity to green orgs
Marcelo Bonta's Center for Diversity & the Environment works to bring people of color into the environmental movement.
by Terri Hansen, Dec 23, 2010 -
A divine business
In Bozeman, Mont., 78-year-old Vern Bandy says he finds water using the legendary art of dowsing.
by Sam Western, Nov 30, 2010 -
The windhover
Biologist Travis Booms tracks Alaska's elusive gyrfalcons.
by Eric Wagner, Nov 17, 2010 -
'The last word is action'
Colorado clean-energy activist Leslie Glustrom sees the eventual decline of coal production as a possible ally.
by Nathan Rice, Oct 28, 2010 -
His photographs trace the passage of time
Photographer Mark Klett has made an art of rephotographing Western landscapes first documented about 100 years ago
by Renee Guillory, Sep 30, 2010 -
What was and what is
In Anchorage, Alaska, Inupiaq poet Joan Kane dreams of the uninhabited island where her ancestors lived.
by Michelle Theriault Boots, Sep 16, 2010 -
Daniel Orozco is out of the office
In Moscow, Idaho, Daniel Orozco writes darkly funny short stories that flirt with the macabre.
by Brian Kevin, Sep 12, 2010 -
Road warrior
Ted Conover talks about roads in life and writing.
by Matthew Fleischer, Sep 09, 2010 -
Caveman of Southeast Alaska
Steve Lewis explores Alaskan caves and works hard to protect both them and the landscape above them.
by Geoff Kirsch, Aug 16, 2010 -
The drift dweller
Colorado scientists have discovered that snow molds are ubiquitous in the high country.
by Jennifer Frazer, Jul 29, 2010 -
Seeing the triceratops for the trees
Paleontologist Kirk Johnson works with artist Jan Vriesen to create vividly realized landscapes of what Colorado looked like millions of years ago.
by Lisa Song, Jul 20, 2010 -
An infestation of the imagination, in a bark beetle lab
Reagan McGuire uses the lessons he learned as a pool shark to tackle the problem of rampaging bark beetles.
by Nick Neely, Jun 29, 2010 -
New world, new canvas
Joxe Mallea-Olaetxe traces Basque history in arborglyphs on Western aspen trees.
by Jane Braxton-Little, Jun 10, 2010 -
Skeletons in the closet
When the media reported that Everett Ruess' bones had been discovered, solving a 70-year-old mystery, Utah State Archaeologist Kevin Jones had his doubts.
by Keith Kloor, Feb 18, 2010 -
Legal pyro
How Tahoe National Forest fire chief Jeanne Pincha-Tulley rose to the top rank of Forest Service disaster management.
by David Ollier Weber, Jan 18, 2010
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