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New York City is really the West, buried under time's wrapping.
by Tom Zoellner,
Nov 20, 2009
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Proponents say that underground coal gasification could produce cleaner energy, but some environmentalists have their doubts.
by Jodi Peterson,
Nov 18, 2009
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In an age when wolves are radio-collared and tracked everywhere they go, can they still be considered wild animals?
by George Sibley,
Nov 17, 2009
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The small courtesies of gleaning urban fruit.
by Joanne Wilke,
Nov 17, 2009
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New York City fights drilling in its watershed, and even some energy executives say the industry needs to be more transparent about the chemicals used in hydraulic fracturing.
by Sarah Gilman,
Nov 17, 2009
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Can the Arapaho language be saved from extinction?
by Emily Underwood,
Nov 16, 2009
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Even a poor student gets a second chance in the Loser School of Hunting, where if at first you don’t succeed, you try, and try again.
by Ari LeVaux,
Nov 12, 2009
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The recent discovery that bones found in the Southwest did not belong to the long-lost poet-wanderer Everett Ruess keeps one more evocative Western mystery alive.
by Jeff Osgood ,
Nov 12, 2009
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The CEOs of two outdoor-recreation-based companies favor strong legislation to stave off climate change, not just to save the planet but to help the economy.
by Steve Rendle and Mike Kaplan,
Nov 12, 2009
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Arizona farmer Mark Moody raises mesquite trees for food and furniture.
by Ariana Brocious,
Nov 11, 2009
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Arizona farmer gives a neglected desert crop new life
by Cally Carswell,
Nov 10, 2009
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Despite auctioneer Peter Stremmel's enthusiasm, the Western artwork sold at this year's Coeur d'Alene Art Auction in Reno didn't bring very high prices.
by Matt Jenkins,
Nov 09, 2009
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Recent scandals at the Interior Department – this time involving environmentalists – pale in magnitude (and luridness) compared to the agency's dalliances with industry.
by Jonathan Thompson,
Nov 09, 2009
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The September board meeting raised questions about how big HCN should be; artists and activists visit us.
by Paul Larmer, Jodi Peterson and Betsy Marston,
Nov 09, 2009
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After a lifetime of despising and fearing guns, a woman is blindsided by the everyday kindness shown by two hunters.
by Melissa Hart,
Nov 09, 2009
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Charles Bowden's new book, Some of the Dead Are Still Breathing, reiterates the bad news of today but declares that times are changing.
by Laura Paskus,
Nov 09, 2009
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In Deeply Rooted, Lisa M. Hamilton introduces the reader to three small farmers who are bucking the trend toward industrial agribusiness.
by Andrea Appleton,
Nov 09, 2009
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Metals mining is making an unexpectedly dramatic comeback in the West.
by Cally Carswell,
Nov 06, 2009
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A hunter who once tore through the woods on his ORV rethinks his ways after he realizes that he’s scaring off wildlife
by Garrett VeneKlasen,
Nov 06, 2009
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by Compiled from recipes on Desert Harvesters ,
Nov 05, 2009
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A late-night encounter with a cop on a lonely Wyoming highway is a quintessentially Western experience.
by Sharon O'Toole,
Nov 05, 2009
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The Bureau of Land Management used a large number of "categorical exclusions" to streamline permitting for oil and gas development.
by Sarah Gilman,
Nov 04, 2009
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Simplot plans for a phosphate mine in southeast Idaho endanger a family's ranching lifestyle.
by Jeff Welsch,
Nov 03, 2009
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Judge Clarence Brimmer is determined to bring down Clinton's roadless forest rule, which has been mired in lawsuits ever since its controversial birth.
by Ray Ring,
Nov 02, 2009
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Our cheap food has a high price tag, especially for workers on the West’s big dairy farms.
by Jonathan Thompson,
Oct 30, 2009
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For $69, two former "polygs" will guide you through fundamentalist towns on the Utah border.
by Beth Kampschror,
Oct 29, 2009
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A writer remembers her father's unlikely political career, running as a Democrat in a Republican part of Colorado.
by Marty Durlin,
Oct 27, 2009
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The Hopi and Navajo governments have played the tired old card of locals vs. environmentalists. They got it wrong.
by Jonathan Thompson,
Oct 27, 2009
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In Ketchum, Idaho, Janet Kellam tries to educate the locals about the danger of avalanches.
by Cameron Walker,
Oct 27, 2009
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In Greeley, Colorado, a meatpacking plant observes Muslim traditions such as Ramadan while multicultural refugees adapt to the West's very different landscape and culture.
by Joslyn Green,
Oct 26, 2009
