Results for keyword: Western landscape
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Exploring the West's land sculptures -- made by artists and industry
A land-art-inspired ramble takes the writer from Michael Heizer's Double Negative, to Robert Smithson's underwater Spiral Jetty, with detours to places including the Bingham Canyon copper mine.
by Jonathan Thompson, Jun 24, 2012 -
A future of big fires and tiny bugs
A second-generation forest ranger considers how fire prevention and climate change are affecting the forests he once roamed with his father.
by Frank Carroll, Apr 17, 2012 -
West to East, and a world away
After 20 years in the West he loves, a writer is forced to move back East.
by Charles Finn, Feb 16, 2012 -
Those buck-tooth dammers are back, big-time
Beavers return to northern Colorado, improving aquatic diversity.
by Chuck Bolsinger, Oct 05, 2011 -
A house like a buffalo
A lover of old Western architecture spends his days dismantling and recycling tumbledown buildings.
by Charles Finn, Oct 27, 2010 -
A scientist's view of change
In Of Rock and Rivers, Ellen Wohl, a geomorphologist, reads the story behind the Western landscape.
by Valerie Rapp, Nov 22, 2009 -
The sky is a crowded attic
Novelist Andrew Sean Greer talks about how the West’s vast landscapes transformed his life and his fiction.
by Jeremy N. Smith, Sep 15, 2009 -
The names of things and why they matter
Westerners like knowing the names of local wildflowers, but Julianne Couch says it’s equally important to identify manmade objects in the landscape.
by Julianne Couch, Nov 21, 2008 -
What’s it like to live in the West?
Brian Doyle answers the question “What’s it like to live in the West?” with exuberant poetry.
by Brian Doyle, Oct 01, 2007 -
The Colorado Plateau II: Biophysical, Socioeconomic, and Cultural Research
The Colorado Plateau II is a kaleidoscopic anthology of scientists’ thoughts on the history, biology and geology of the vast Colorado Plateau
by Staff, Feb 06, 2006






