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  • Riparian repair

    River restorationists tackle the Clark Fork River near Milltown, Mont., in a project that demonstrates how hard it is to revive a damaged waterway. Subscribers only

  • An unlikely Shangri-la

    Steve and Marc Jenson have ambitious plans to turn a failed ski resort near Beaver, Utah, into a private enclave for the ultra-rich, but not everyone is thrilled about the idea. Subscribers only

  • Crash of the cottonwoods

    Across the West, cottonwoods are dying, and no one is sure how to save these iconic trees. Subscribers only

  • Going to the gasroots

    In western Colorado, oil and gas companies mobilize in a publicity blitz to pack a Grand Junction hearing about proposed changes to the state’s natural gas drilling rules. Subscribers only

 

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  • Size matters if you go for “green” bragging rights

    Monique Cole wonders if a 6,500-square-foot “green-powered” McMansion is a contradiction in terms.

  • Zane Grey’s West: Longing for the way it never was

    When she was 10 years old, Marty Durlin fell in the love with the romantic landscapes and purple prose of Western writer Zane Grey’s classic novels.

  • A town’s downtown is the new (old) way to live

    Bill Croke celebrates his brand-new, old-fashioned lifestyle: living upstairs in an old brick building in downtown Salmon, Idaho.

  • Not even the privileged can deter a porcupine

    Judy Muller contemplates the humble porcupine, which is wreaking havoc among pricey houses in Telluride Mountain Village.

  • Two weeks in the West

    A mixed fire season in the West this summer; Forest Service runs out of firefighting money; solar power plants and wind farms may help take the heat off; fire sale of energy leases on Colorado’s Roan Plateau.

  • All along the watchtower

    Andrew McNair, who works weekends at a computer in Olympia, Wash., is not your typical Western firefighter.

  • Fifty summers and 360 degrees

    Nancy Hood has spent 50 of her 70 summers watching for fires from lonely lookouts in the smoky Siskiyou Mountains of Northern California.

  • Fire, fire everywhere

    Despite the growing threat of Western wildfire, most of us are still pretending it will go away if we just ignore it.

  • The Mog Squad

    In the quest for the ultimate firefighting machine, the BLM in Nevada has turned to some very big, very strange, and very foreign vehicles.

  • The old man and the stream

    A brief encounter with an elderly fisherman moves W.S. Robinson to think about the mysteries of life and death -- and fathers and sons.

  • An unforgettable journey

    In his second novel, So Brave, So Young, So Handsome, Leif Enger takes the reader on a journey across the American West, circa 1915.

  • Portrait of a threatened land

    In Travels in the Greater Yellowstone, Jack Turner celebrates and fights for the preservation of an incredible but endangered landscape.

  • Dear friends

    Summer visitors; correction; HCN stories win awards; wilderness loses a friend: a farewell to John Seiberling

  • Dust on the rocks

    The results of a scientific study on the effects of dust on rock art are somehow “lost” in the haze of Barrett Corporation’s drilling in Utah’s Nine Mile Canyon.

  • The less you have, the less you have to lose

    Alan Kesselheim figures he’s already so poor, he’s recession-proof.

  • Not even the privileged can deter a porcupine

    Judy Muller contemplates the humble porcupine, which is wreaking havoc amid the pricey dwellings of Telluride Mountain Village.

  • Riparian repair

    River restorationists tackle the Clark Fork River near Milltown, Mont., in a project that demonstrates how hard it is to revive a damaged waterway. Subscribers only

  • McCain: T.R. or W?

    John McCain likes to compare himself to Teddy Roosevelt, but his conservation record is closer to that of a less-popular Republican: George W. Bush.

  • The NRA needs someone like me

    Pat Wray is running for the board of the National Rifle Association because he believes it needs to start defending the wildlife and habitat that hunters need – not just the guns they use.

  • The way it looks in rural Oregon in this shaky economic world

    Boom and bust cycles remind us that we're not as smart as we think we are.

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