Items by Betsy Marston

Plans foiled
PETA protests Tenderloin District and "watchgator" fails to interrupt police raid
"The country is gonna go to the bow-wows"
Western political leaders don't mince words
Empty nests
A glut of vacant subdivision lots and houses
"Sign up now, get free gun."
A particularly successful marketing strategy
Defense mechanisms
Chemical threat detectors and nuclear weapons
Bear opens bear-proof locker
And fends off agitated campers
Golden anniversary
...or endurance test?
Danged ornery critters
Governor employs "VETO" branding iron
Are you on the endangered species list?
You never know who might be threatened with extinction
A hearty feast
Red meat on the menu
Wild lives and wildlife
Red-handed elk poachers and attempted suicide by bear
On the lam
Lawbreakers -- and yaks -- asking for trouble in the West
A cheap vacation that got out of hand
Body-surfer of the Grand Canyon dies at age 82
"Hey, that's my hay"
Finding a haystack in Nevada is like finding a needle in a haystack
Cultural exchange
Loggers adopt a bear as their daughter and Montana cowboys fly to Russia
Is that a gun in your Speedo?
Perhaps the designated state handgun?
Llamas and coyotes and bears, oh my
When efforts to keep dogs entertained go too far
Cock-a-doodle-brouhaha
Colorado town scuffles over roosters
Tougher than most
Some folks would rather die than pay taxes
States' rights gone wrong
Don't you dare give us $101 million for school children
Missing item
Has anyone seen a box of methamphetamine lying around?
Cheaters and cheatgrass
Bear steals hunter's quarry while cows nosh an invasive weed
The color-shifting skink
And other tails, er, tales
Roll up your sleeves and get cranking
Couple plans for the end of fossil fuel while a pet turtle plods 14 miles to a feed store
That bites!
Snakes overrun foreclosed homes, junk piles overrun inhabited homes
Fascinating conundrums
Navajo language syntax, why cliff-dwellers lived in ruins, and Idaho's law-breaking state rep.
What to do with the dead?
A Montana casket builder brings humor to the funeral
Once I caught a fish thi-i-i-i-i-s big
Law enforcement officers wrestle a ... deer? ... into their boat
Love thy neighbor
Even the one with 15 horns
Fire and brimstone
Notes on a few Western infernos
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