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    Arthur Kruse rides the range – outside of Munich, Germany. Subscribers only

  • Ultimate solution?

    Southern California wants to use desalination to increase its water supply, but critics think the idea needs to be taken with a grain of salt. Subscribers only

  • Burning issues

    Controversial forestry scientist Tom Bonnicksen believes increased logging is necessary to fight global warming. Subscribers only

  • Liquid assets

    California is enthusiastic about creating “water banks” to help the state’s cities weather future droughts. Subscribers only

 

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  • How to survive the lean times

    Her brush with homelessness gives Jane Goetze the background to offer some wry advice.

  • Real work

    The joys – and hardships – of outdoor physical work take a toll.

  • A chance to do it right in the West

    Hoping for a Western Interior secretary who practices the politics of collaboration.

  • The persistence of bigotry, Western-style

    A father of a biracial child listens to the casually racist jokes of his rural Colorado neighbors.

  • We’re in this together

    Owning a house in Rawlins, Wyoming now has global implications.

  • Desperate measures

    Over the years, Westerners have come up with a lot of wacky schemes to get more water.

  • The names of things and why they matter

    Every creek and butte has a name, but what do you call that mess of metal drums and pipes?

  • On Obama's coattails

    Western Democrats have reason to celebrate the 2008 election, but the old conservative West has not disappeared.

  • Weekend Westerner

    Arthur Kruse rides the range – outside of Munich, Germany. Subscribers only

  • Ultimate solution?

    Southern California wants to use desalination to increase its water supply, but critics think the idea needs to be taken with a grain of salt. Subscribers only

  • Bearing witness on the border

    Eodus/Exodo uses the words of Charles Bowden and the photographs of Julian Cardona to tell the heartbreaking story of the modern-day border region.

  • Welcome, new board members

    HCN welcomes new board members Wayne Hare and Jane Ellen Stevens; Peter Friederici’s story on recycled effluent gets praise from the Society of Environmental Journalists.

  • Peak economy

    Westerners shouldn’t panic about the recent economic meltdown; our region has always cycled from boom to bust and back again.

  • Video: The waiting game

    Immigrant day-laborers in Santa Fe wait for jobs -- usually backbreaking work that pays minimal wages -- as the economy continues to slide.

  • Everybody wants to move to my town

    Steve Bunk returns to his old hometown of Boise to find he’s not the only one in search of a sanctuary.

  • Audio: An unlikely senator goes to Washington

    Oregon's Jeff Merkley wants to "change the world" as part of the new majority in the U.S. Senate.

  • Stuck in the PAWGmire

    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.

  • Conscientious objectors 65 years ago

    Paying homage to those imprisoned at Mancos Camp, Colo., during World War II.

  • Welcome to hard times

    Ed Quillen finds a silver lining behind the current economic clouds.

  • The Doc is in

    Rural folks find common ground at a vet's office in Western Colorado.

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