The "American Moses" may have been a theocratic, autocratic zealot, but he had his moments
Items by Jonathan Thompson
On public land in New Mexico, firewood-hunters have illegally cut down hundreds of old-growth juniper trees, much to the dismay of the Bureau of Land Management and environmental activists.
Also, Russian wildland terrorists and ground squirrel invaders
Drought has dealt a blow to the reservoir, but it's not drying up yet
And for prairie dogs, too
The GOP presidential candidate becomes the gajillionth politician to tout energy independence
Can a big bike race make up for the loss of revenue in fire- and recession-battered towns?
We need your on-the-ground observations for our "communities in transition" beat
The West has more mass transit than you might expect. Why aren't more (rich) people using it?
How the natural gas glut is rippling across the economies and landscapes of the West (with charts!)
Looking back can give us some perspective -- maybe even comfort -- in extreme times
A loop around the Four Corners, where Colorado, New Mexico, Arizona and Utah meet, leads into a land of both historical and geological friction.
Watch a video that's just "a little too weird" for HCN editors!
An annotated map shows you how to find some of the West's odder sites, such as old bombing ranges, giant dams, huge industrial projects and giant telescope arrays.
A guide to some of the West's most prominent pieces of land art or earthworks and some of the altered landscapes that interested or inspired land artists.
A land-art-inspired ramble takes the writer from Michael Heizer's Double Negative, to Robert Smithson's underwater Spiral Jetty, with detours to places including the Bingham Canyon copper mine.
We're all tourists in someone else's town, all of us just wandering through the world, so why not do a special issue on travel in the West?
It might just cure you
The author joins a European tour of the post-industrial landscape of the Great Salt Lake
Despite recent headlines, the "drill baby drill" method isn't getting us close to breaking our dependence on foreign oil
In all the fuss about fracking, the many other problems caused by rampant oil and gas development are being overlooked.
Drilling spouts more (salty toxic nasty) water than it slurps
A two-year planning process in La Plata County, Colorado gets hijacked by activists suspicious of United Nations influence. And in the West and nationwide, they're not alone.
The word "fracking" has great PR value for environmental activists, but it seems to be completely taking over the debate over oil and gas development.
Energy self-sufficiency isn't realistic in our global economy
Fire and flood, snowstorms and droughts, downburst winds and desert haboobs -- 2011 brought incredibly wacky weather to the West.
Will a global oil shale push make it to the U.S. West?
As the West's population and real estate boom stumble to a halt, the once fast-growing Southwest is filled with foreclosed homes and undeveloped lots.
Over-consumption is much more frightening than overpopulation
A couple of guys and a "Red Buffalo" help bring corn-growing back to Taos Pueblo
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