As summer rafting season begins, safe passage to all river runners.
Items by Andrew Gulliford
What sort of canine companion might Donald Trump bring to the White House?
For the benefit of all endangered species, hunters should face consequences for killing vulnerable species.
Advocates for federal-to-state land transfers have overlooked some of the implications, including higher grazing fees.
The official reintroduction of a breeding pair could help ecosystems and prevent conflict.
Two writers debate the cultural differences of fast-water paddlers and still-water luxury boaters.
A Utah county attempts to gain right of way on public land.
Let's step back from the rhetoric and handwringing and take the long view.
Without new hunters to carry on conservation traditions, wild game and habitat will suffer.
Seeking out a roadside shrine that touched this writer decades ago.
Rangers handle these tragedies, the parks' second leading cause of death.
Hiking on the West's public lands is better with a canine companion
Wild horses wreak environmental havoc. What kind of symbol is this for the American West?
Prejudice 100 years ago delayed the admission of New Mexico and Arizona to the union.
Jefferson's dream changed the landscape and settled this region.
The author attends a peculiar reunion, a meeting with the former Exxon executives who pulled the plug on oil shale three decades ago.
There may be only 200 people living in Bluff, Utah, today, but they cherish
a history that goes back for centuries, along with the dramatic red-rock
After seeing a drawing of a wooly mammoth in a Utah cave, the author ponders on the possibility they existed along with the humans who inhabited the U.S. Southwest years ago.
Controversial writer Dalton Trumbo returns to his hometown of Grand Junction, Colo. -- in a bronze bathtub.
Rather than rail against Lake Powell's mere existence, conservationists should try to restore and protect the landscape that is still there.
California condors are back, and they're more impressive than manmade marvels.
Twenty-eight years ago, the oil shale industry abruptly pulled out of western Colorado, leaving the local economy in shambles and teaching a painful lesson.
Describing themselves as "the junkyard dogs of the environmental movement," the women of Great Old Broads for Wilderness have spent 20 looking out for the wild lands they love.
Lynell Schalk broke through the BLM’s “sagebrush ceiling” in the 1960s to become the first female special agent in the Western U.S. authorized to carry a gun.
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