Items by Emma Brown
When you're camped all alone in the wilderness, there is nothing like a book to bring you comfort.
Annie Proulx talks about Wyoming's Red Desert along with photographs by Martin Stupich.
Writer Annie Proulx takes an unsentimental view of Wyoming’s little-known and somewhat scarred Red Desert.
Chilean guest-worker Ricardo Arriagada herds goats that eat weeds to help prevent brush fires in Hercules, Calif.
Ivan Doig’s new novel, The Eleventh Man, follows a Montana man across the globe during World War II.
Rick Bass’ new short story collection, The Lives of
Rocks, proves that his fierce environmental activism has not
diminished the intensity of his storytelling genius
Homeless families aren’t found only in urban areas.
They’re also struggling to survive in the rural West, as
shown by the story of Barbara Trivitt and her two children, who
lived in a Jeep in Coos Bay, Oregon, this fall.
The writer lives in the mountains, alone with a
radiophone
Brian Peterson considers himself the interim governor of
the State of Jefferson, an area in Northern California and southern
Oregon that has been talking about secession since the early
1940s
In Blood Struggle, law professor
Charles Wilkinson gives an inspiring account of Indians’
political and legal struggles during the last 50 years
The Hualapai Tribe has ambitious plans for Grand Canyon
West, a tourist destination on its remote reservation bordering the
Grand Canyon
The Forest Service is considering "green" certification
for timber produced on the national forests, but environmentalists
fear it's a form of greenwashing that will wrongly legitimize
public-land logging
The BLM wants to allow oil and gas companies to drill near
Pinedale, Wyo., in wintertime, and some conservationists think the
change may actually help declining mule deer populations
Wyoming lawmakers are trying to pass a law to prevent
sheepherders from quitting their jobs without notice in search of
better-paying employment
Protected Harvest is a nonprofit that offers certification
to farmers who are interested in more eco-friendly practices, but
not willing to become organic
Large-scale organic food producers have beaten back an
attempt to strengthen national organic standards
A land-exchange plan especially designed for
California’s Eastern Sierra could help prevent development
controversies such as the current one over the proposed Whitney
Portal project near scenic Lone Pine
A provision in the new energy bill promises funding to
speed up the oil and gas permitting process in BLM offices –
without costing the industry an extra penny
The BLM’s failure to plug security holes in its
computers, especially those dealing with Indian trust fund
accounts, means that most of the agency’s Web sites have been
closed to the public for the past six months
The Forest Service wants to create a new type of
"categorical exclusion" to make it easier for oil and gas drilling
projects to be approved without environmental study or public
input
Nutria, destructive beaver-like mammals from South
America, are moving into the Skagit River Valley of northwestern
Washington, and some believe a warming climate is to
blame
With the Forest Service’s Biscuit Fire salvage
logging program acknowledged to be a failure, Oregon Reps. Greg
Walden and Gordon Smith want to speed up future post-fire
logging
Books for Folks in New Orleans; fall interns Emma Brown
and Michelle Burkhart; clarifications and corrections
Faced with a lawsuit by the National Association of Home
Builders, NOAA Fisheries decides to strip protections from
four-fifths of the currently designated critical habitat for
salmon
