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  • Credo: The People’s West

    Photographer Stephen Trimble offers suggestions for how citizens and communities can reinvent their relationship with the Western landscape.

  • When the going gets tough, the tough collaborate

    Sometimes it seems that only the impact of a severe drought can get Westerners to work together on water issues

  • The Battle for the Verde

    The Verde River is one of Arizona’s last free-flowing stream, but environmental and local activists fear an ambitious planned pipeline, designed to bring groundwater to the growing Prescott area, will end up sucking the river dry

  • Phoenix Falling?

    Craig Childs lifts the rug of modern-day Phoenix, Ariz., to examine the remnants of the civilization that preceded it – the Hohokam people, who also built a great city in the middle of the desert, and flourished until the day they ran out of water.

  • Harvesting the sky

    Thirsty Santa Fe, N.M., considers an innovative law requiring all new buildings to install rainwater-harvesting systems.

  • Picture a town that celebrates its old businesses

    Linda Hasselstrom muses sadly over the closing of a 118-year-old drugstore in downtown Cheyenne, Wyo.

  • Is the great federal land debate over

    Two trends are almost as dangerous as the idea of directly selling off the public lands: land transfers done in the name of economic development, and the outsourcing of jobs in the federal land-management agencies.

  • Is It or Isn’t It (Just Another Mouse)?

    As scientists clash over the Preble’s meadow jumping mouse's biological categorization, the complexity of endangered species science steps into the light

  • The noisy democracy of the West

    The revised edition of Peter Decker’s Old Fences, New Neighbors examines the changes that population growth has brought to remote Ouray County in western Colorado

  • High Noon for Habitat

    In Riverside County, Calif., the conflict between the Endangered Species Act’s critical habitat rule and the West’s booming, sprawling, growth-driven economy comes to a head

  • Non-Natives reporting the Native stories by Danielle: With so many fine Native American reporters, why a...
  • No by gjdfkd: You shouldnt kill the wolves. They are kind animal...
  • Poor ohvers by Longhunter: Well, I would hope that anyone with an advanced de...
  • RING ON ROADLESS by DAVID PETERSEN: Sorry Ray, but I have to add my voice to the choir...
  • Ahh, Audubon by Steve Snyder: Too bad, Tom Turner, that in places like Arizona ...
  1. Roadless-less | Judge Clarence Brimmer is determined to bring down...
  2. Socialism and the West | Despite our reflexive fear of the word "socialism,...
  3. Stubbornness and the art of riding a bicycle | Bike helmets are unbelievably ugly and dorky-looki...
  4. More gas, less grouse | Study predicts fewer sage grouse as energy develop...
  5. Eco-pawprints | New Zealand professors calculate pets' impacts on ...
  1. Death by a thousand wells | Unregulated domestic wells are straining water sup...
  2. Roadless-less | Judge Clarence Brimmer is determined to bring down...
  3. Socialism and the West | Despite our reflexive fear of the word "socialism,...
  4. Empty nest |
  5. Watts of water | Not all environmentalists believe that pumped hydr...

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