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Paul Larmer reminds us that it will take more than a single environmental hero – like Tim DeChristopher, who cleverly sabotaged a BLM energy-lease auction – to reform the agency.
Moab cartoonist Travis Kelly creates political cartoons in order to stay sane.
Moab cartoonist Travis Kelly lives in a solar school bus, and creates political cartoons to stay sane.
Hal Herring relates the ugly story of how the Bush administration used its influence to try to kill a story about the impacts of energy development.
During the last eight years, Bush’s Interior Department has been embroiled in enough corruption, sex and scandal to fuel several soap operas.
The EPA under George Bush has put the health of Westerners at risk in order to make life easier for big industry.
Rob Pudim recalls his own adventurous childhood, and wonders why today’s kids are so unwilling to go outside and get dirty.
Seth Cohen describes a close encounter with a grizzly – and an even closer encounter with grizzly-strength pepper spray.
A 61-year-old hiker and two middle-aged friends take an epic hike through Arizona in David Roberts’ new book, Sandstone Spine
Cell phones have their uses, but they do not belong in the wilderness
The writer climbs a mountain in Colorado and meets a lightning bolt head on
The writer has a message for hikers in the backcountry: Turn your darned cell phone off!
The writer counts the ways he has changed since suffering a major heart attack in Colorado
The writer and his family duck bullets on a hiking trail through a Colorado national forest, then find that the shooters were within their rights
In Mountain Harmonies, Howard Smith muses on environmental philosophy as he takes readers from Glacier National Park to New Mexico’s Gila Wilderness
