Uncommon Westerners
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Return of the pod man
Arizona farmer Mark Moody raises mesquite trees for food and furniture.
by Ariana Brocious, Nov 10, 2009 -
Avalanche education for all
In Ketchum, Idaho, Janet Kellam tries to educate the locals about the danger of avalanches.
by Cameron Walker, Oct 26, 2009 -
When reverence isn't enough
Writer and philosopher Kathleen Dean Moore talks about water, family and the sacredness of landscapes.
by John Calderazzo , Sep 27, 2009 -
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.
by Greg Campbell, Sep 20, 2009 -
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.
by Emily Underwood, Aug 25, 2009 -
Nirvana on a backhoe
Kim Erion restores habitat using heavy equipment and a heartfelt connection to things like logs and rhododendrons.
by Cory Eldridge, Jul 28, 2009 -
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.
by Emily Underwood , Jul 22, 2009 -
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
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