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  • Disposable workers of the oil and gas fields

    Without a college degree, work on the oil and gas fields is the best job you can get in the rural West – unless, of course, it kills you

    by Ray Ring, Apr 02, 2007

  • Heard around the West

    Something’s fishy in California; dolphins do Rambo; big bad wolf wasn’t wild; conspicuous consumption in Boulder; déjà vu all over again in Interior Department; ski bum is dead, long live ski bums; not everything stays in Vegas.

    by Betsy Marston, Mar 19, 2007

  • The romance of deceleration

    The noisy contrast between snowmobiles and cross-country skis awakens the author to the similar contrast between the life she has always wanted and the one she currently has with her partner, Billy.

    by Deanna Wittmer Clauson, Mar 19, 2007

  • Taking the conservation movement to task

    Law professor Eric Freyfogle castigates the environmental movement and offers straightforward advice in Why Conservation is Failing and How It Can Regain Ground.

    by Michelle Nijhuis, Mar 19, 2007

  • Mortal fear and a state of wild grace

    In The Ice Cave: A Woman’s Adventures from the Mojave to the Antarctic, Lucy Jane Bledsoe chases her own wild fears across the landscape in search of a state of grace.

    by Sarah Gilman, Mar 19, 2007

  • Busy as a Buchmann

    Ecologist Stephan Buchmann is crazy about bees, and his Tucson-based one-man nonprofit, The Bee Works, is simply buzzing with activity.

    by Brendan Borrell, Mar 19, 2007

  • Rail out of town

    Gov. Schwarzenegger says “Hasta la vista” to a long-planned California high-speed rail line – at least for the moment.

    by Matt Palmquist, Mar 19, 2007

  • Driven to fight

    Retired BLM agent Lynell Schalk goes head-to-head with her former bosses over protecting southern Utah’s priceless archaeological sites from off-road vehicle traffic.

    by Jen Jackson, Mar 19, 2007

  • The mouse that roared "Preble"

    The Preble's meadow jumping mouse, which thrives in the same habitat as houses and developments, could bring growth on Colorado's Front Range to a halt if it is listed as endangered.

    by R. E. Baird, Michelle Nijhuis, Mar 16, 1998

  • All the king's horses and all the king'smen...

    The reclamation of Montana's hardrock mines will cost billions, and is complicated by the fact that no one really knows how to do it, or who should foot the bill.

    by Ray Ring, Jan 19, 1998

  • Some lessons about coyotes stick in your mind

    The government agencies that use M-44s to kill coyotes claim that the cyanide causes a quick and painless death, but a rancher’s experience indicates that the truth is tragically different.

    by Linda M. Hasselstrom, Dec 04, 2002

  • Our public lands should reflect white, black and brown

    Wayne Hare, a black park ranger, talks about the importance of diversity for the future of the West.

    by Wayne Hare, Jul 17, 2007

  • Our coyote war in the West reminds me of the war in Iraq

    The writer compares a new proposal to allow aerial gunning of coyotes in wilderness to the war in Iraq

    by Gary Wockner, Jul 10, 2006

  • Public lands “crown jewels” languish for lack of funding

    The BLM's National Landscape Conservation System will lose ground under President Bush’s proposed 2008 budget, which slashes funds by $8.56 million.

    by Michelle Blank, Mar 08, 2007

  • Preble’s mouse protection jumps to Colorado

    Proposal would strip rare rodent of protection in Wyoming

    by James Yearling, Nov 08, 2007

  • Can the Preble's mouse trap growth on Colorado's Front Range?

    The tiny Preble's meadow jumping mouse, which was recently listed as threatened, prefers the same habitat as developers do, along Colorado's rapidly urbanizing Front Range.

    by Michelle Nijhuis, Aug 30, 1999

  • The city mouse

    Some facts about the threatened Preble's meadow jumping mouse are listed.

    by Michelle Nijhuis, Aug 30, 1999

  • Tribal religion trumps eagle protection

    A recent court ruling on the ceremonial killing of eagles by American Indians collides with the Endangered Species Act, possibly sending the issue to the Supreme Court

    by Brodie Farquhar, Nov 13, 2006

  • The anatomy of an energy lease

    The BLM’s decision to lease land for energy exploration in the watersheds of Grand Junction and Palisade, Colo., reveals the way oil and gas leasing works

    by Jodi Peterson, Sep 04, 2006

  • A few scientific definitions

    Terms commonly used in endangered species discussions – species, subspecies and distinct population segment – are explained

    by Jodi Peterson, Aug 07, 2006
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