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Rural folks find common ground at a vet's office in Western Colorado.
A vast army of determined volunteers were the force behind Obama’s success in Colorado.
In rural western Colorado, a vet tends to pets and their humans. Michelle Nijhuis reads her essay, along with slides by JT Thomas.
Paying homage to those imprisoned at Mancos Camp, Colo., during World War II.
The Pinedale Anticline Working Group was supposed to give citizens input on the local oil and gas boom, but it hasn’t worked out as planned.
Controversial forestry scientist Tom Bonnicksen believes increased logging is necessary to fight global warming.
Ranchers and environmentalists in Wyoming are still squabbling over wolves as the animal bounces on and off the endangered species list.
California is enthusiastic about creating “water banks” to help the state’s cities weather future droughts.
In some Western states, including Colorado, prison inmates are taking the place of immigrant farmworkers.
Zoologist David Olson and his colleagues are trying to create artificial cacti to house the rare coastal cactus wren, whose cholla cactus habitat is being threatened by California’s recent wildfires.
Charles Finn has had the carcass of a Canada goose in the back of his pickup for a week, pondering its life and death as he drives through the Montana winter.
Seth Shteir is astonished to encounter a small, endangered burrowing owl hiding in an auto mechanic’s shop deep in the wilds of Los Angeles.
Andrew Gulliford applauds the aerial acrobatics of the Colorado Plateau’s newly returned condors.
Melissa Hart’s relationship with an owl transforms her life
Rob Domenech bands eagles, studies hawks and also works with at-risk kids
The Ardent Birder, written by Todd Newberry and delightfully illustrated by Gene Holtan, salutes the "lovely madness" of bird-watching
Two recent guidebooks – Mike Coltrin’s Sandia Mountain Hiking Guide and The Field Guide to the Sandia Mountains by Robert Julyan and Mary Stuever – are excellent guides to the trails and histories of the mountains outside Albuquerque
In the Company of Crows and Ravens, by wildlife professor John Marzluff and artist/writer Tony Angell, looks at the complex mystique of these clever birds
More than half the windmills on California’s Altamont Pass will shut down for two months this winter so migrating birds can pass safely through the area
