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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.
The West's abundant resources below ground have supplied much of the power for the U.S. in the past; are renewables next?
Willits, Calif., is one of a growing number of communities trying to prepare for a post-oil world by becoming economically and agriculturally sustainable.
This issue’s cover essay on New Mexico’s gas fields – and our publisher’s adventures during a recent snowstorm in Paonia – reveal the complex links that bind Westerners together for better or worse
Sen. Pete Domenici, R-N.M., does an about-face and moves to protect New Mexico’s Valle Vidal from oil and gas drilling
A new plan to steer energy development away from cultural sites in New Mexico could streamline energy development, fund archaeological research and preserve ancient sites all at once
Increasingly, Western cities are planting trees to save energy as well as provide beauty
Mark Sardella’s nonprofit group Local Energy is determined to heat local communities with biomass energy, created by burning logging slash and millwaste from New Mexican forests
A federal judge has reinstated President Clinton’s roadless rule protecting forests in the Lower 48 states, but the decision seems to have only confused the issue of forest management and is likely to end up back in court
With global warming an increasing threat, some are urging a return to nuclear energy, but the industry’s own checkered past reminds us that a nuclear renaissance will be neither easy nor cheap
