The West is burning, from California to Colorado
Items by Jonathan Thompson
Visitors; editor's note on Gary Paul Nabhan's piece about Jon Jarvis.
Western Colorado is seeing an unexpected agricultural revival, thanks in part to affluent outsiders creating a market for local food and wine.
After a flurry of industry lobbying, Dems and greens get gassy.
HCN has a new, community-oriented blog.
Travel-sized scare at 40,000 feet.
You may despise Twitter. But it can be valuable.
A novel way to handle a cougar attack.
Lightning and falling fawns endanger runners of the Hardrock Hundred.
Fisheries management is important to more than seafood lovers; it's a matter of life and death to Pacific Coast communities.
What happens when you combine uranium, creationism and Arizona politicians?
Are wind-turbine-fighting environmentalists re-enacting Don Quixote's crusade against windmills -- while ignoring the real monster of climate change?
HCN Road Trip: Day 1
Dreams of a full reservoir dashed again
The economic collapse – with its attendant slowdown in mining, drilling and development – gives Westerners a chance to pause and rethink the way we use the land.
When the economic meltdown ends, will the West be permanently changed?
Surprise, Ariz., exemplifies the Arizona real estate collapse along with what many see as the rise and fall of the car-dependent Western exurb.
Most Americans associate slums with places like Mumbai, India, but all over the West, tent cities and shantytowns are springing up to house the dispossessed.
Most Americans associate slums with places like Mumbai, India. But they exist here, too.
Westerners have a knack for new and innovative thinking: Green detective, Healthcare for the hard up, Developing to stop development, Low carbon brews and more.
Gas drilling buoys the economy ... or not.
Dealers on this side of the border provide guns to drug cartels south of the border.
Decriminalizing drugs won’t solve all our problems, but it would certainly make life safer for the people along the U.S.-Mexico border.
The West has a peculiar kind of amnesia when it comes to its Cold War nuclear-weapons-building past.
The only solution to the bloodbath at the border?
More business travelers would choose Amtrak if the trains were faster – or if people could get work done during long journeys.
...this ought to put a damper on things.
A Tennessee disaster opens the public's eyes to a nationwide problem.
Jonathan Thompson says that Barack Obama -- caught between the threat of global warming and demands for energy independence -- is unlikely to end drilling in the West.
During the last eight years, Bush’s Interior Department has been embroiled in enough corruption, sex and scandal to fuel several soap operas.
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