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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.
All along the watchtower

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

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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.
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.
Crash of the cottonwoods

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

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Size matters if you go for “green” bragging rights

by Monique Cole Sep 05, 2008 12:00 AM

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

by Marty Durlin Sep 05, 2008 12:00 AM

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

by Bill Croke Sep 05, 2008 12:00 AM

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

by Judy Muller Sep 03, 2008 08:10 AM

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

by Jodi Peterson Sep 02, 2008 12:45 PM

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

by Eric Wagner Sep 02, 2008 12:40 PM

Andrew McNair, who works weekends at a computer in Olympia, Wash., is not your typical Western firefighter.
Fifty summers and 360 degrees

by Erin Halcomb Sep 02, 2008 12:40 PM

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

by Jonathan Thompson Sep 02, 2008 12:38 PM

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

by Matt Jenkins Sep 02, 2008 09:30 AM

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

by W.S. Robinson Sep 01, 2008 08:47 PM

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

by Janice Gable Bashman Sep 01, 2008 08:46 PM

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

by Matt Goodlett Sep 01, 2008 08:45 PM

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

by Jodi Peterson Sep 01, 2008 08:44 PM

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

by Keith Kloor Aug 29, 2008 03:10 PM

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

by Alan Kesselheim Aug 29, 2008 12:00 AM

Alan Kesselheim figures he’s already so poor, he’s recession-proof.
Not even the privileged can deter a porcupine

by Judy Muller Aug 27, 2008 04:40 PM

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

by Cleo Woelfle-Erskine Aug 27, 2008 08:55 AM

River restorationists tackle the Clark Fork River near Milltown, Mont., in a project that demonstrates how hard it is to revive a damaged waterway.
McCain: T.R. or W?

by John Dougherty Aug 25, 2008 04:36 PM

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

by Pat Wray Aug 25, 2008 12:00 AM

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

by Rich Wandschneider Aug 20, 2008 12:00 PM

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

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