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When Julene Bair sold the family farm, she severed her lifelong connections with a sense of place and her own childhood.
by Julene Bair,
Dec 03, 2008
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In some Western states, including Colorado, prison inmates are taking the place of immigrant farmworkers.
by Marty Durlin,
Oct 10, 2008
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The recent expiration of the Secure Rural Schools and Community Self-Determination Act has left western Oregon counties without funds.
by Andrea Appleton,
Jul 31, 2008
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Western farmers and ranchers using progressive
land-management techniques can make a few bucks from the new carbon
market – but some critics say it won’t lead to any real
reduction in carbon emissions.
by Stephanie Paige Ogburn,
Jul 16, 2008
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Rancher Mary Flitner visits with some female bovine
friends before going off to have coffee with the human ladies of
Shell, Wyo.
by Mary Flitner,
Jul 16, 2008
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Bonnie Kline says Wildlife Services, the federal agency in
charge of predator control, helps keep rural economies
alive.
by Bonnie Kline,
Jul 16, 2008
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Lisa Upson and Wendy Keefover-Ring believe that Wildlife
Services’ predator control program is ugly, ineffective,
inhumane and indiscriminate.
by Lisa Upson and Wendy Keefover-Ring,
May 05, 2008
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Rebecca Clarren talks to migrant farmworker women about a
threat they face every day in the fields: sexual harassment and
assault by coworkers and bosses.
by Rebecca Clarren,
Jul 16, 2008
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Brian Doyle’s new book, The Grail, lives up to its
lively subtitle as it describes “a year ambling and shambling
through an Oregon vineyard in pursuit of the best pinot noir in the
whole wild world.”
by Heidi Andrew,
Feb 19, 2007
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For a long time, the West used water as if the supply were
endless, but nowadays environmentalists are finding that too much
efficiency causes problems of its own, especially in fragile
ecosystems like the Colorado River Delta.
by John Mecklin,
Feb 05, 2007
