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A father of a biracial child listens to the casually racist jokes of his rural Colorado neighbors.
An innovative local program helps Hispanic heroin addicts recover by renewing their ties to the land.
The joys – and hardships – of outdoor physical work take a toll.
Her brush with homelessness gives Jane Goetze the background to offer some wry advice.
Hoping for a Western Interior secretary who practices the politics of collaboration.
In southwestern Colorado’s Crow Canyon, archaeologists are working with Native Americans to solve the historical mysteries of the Four Corners area.
Southern California wants to use desalination to increase its water supply, but critics think the idea needs to be taken with a grain of salt.
Controversial forestry scientist Tom Bonnicksen believes increased logging is necessary to fight global warming.
Now that logging no longer provides enough money to support Oregon’s libraries, Pepper Trail says it’s up to citizens to decide to keep their state’s bookshelves filled and accessible.
Alan Kesselheim says Westerners should not be shocked when a house built in a floodplain eventually falls victim to a flood.
Graham Chisholm believes that an agreement involving open space, a large housing development and condor habitat on California’s Tejon Ranch is a “true conservation victory.”
The Tejon Ranch agreement, which will allow a housing development to be build in the midst of rare condor critical habitat, is a disaster for the endangered birds, according to Noel Snyder and David Clendenen.
A backroom agreement between the Forest Service and Plum Creek Co. leaves Montana counties out of the picture when it comes to access to and development of national forest inholdings.
In today’s complicated West, where retirees battle energy companies and environmentalists fight transmission lines carrying green power, maybe we need some heroic cowboys to help straighten everything out.
Despite all the fuss about wolves and other wild predators, feral and free-roaming dogs in the West may actually pose a greater danger to livestock, wildlife and people.
Westerners in towns like Durango, Colo., and Monticello, Utah, have been exposed to mine tailings for years, unaware that uranium might be even more dangerous than scientists used to believe.
Bill Sniffin is pleased that Wyoming is spending its energy earnings wisely, but he believes that even more could be done with the money before the boom’s over.
Just as western Colorado towns like Rifle have begun a new life as thriving “amenity” economies, an energy boom of unprecedented proportions has taken over the landscape.
