Notes on what is fluid and flowing, even if ephemeral.
Items by Kate Schimel
At the U.N., leaders describe the destruction of Indigenous sacred sites as a ‘major human rights violation.’
The director of ‘How to Blow Up a Pipeline’ discusses the value of popular media for environmental ends and whether destroying pipelines is an act of self-defense.
A sardonic social media account gains popularity from taking down sacred ski idols and imagining a future without snow.
Friction from the past intensifies in environmentally stressed regions.
Extractive industry laid the infrastructure for the suburban sprawl that fueled Colorado’s destructive Marshall Fire.
Landlords and property managers filed more than 11,000 eviction notices since April 2020.
The beloved teacher and writer was preoccupied with the particular.
And creates new connections from the details.
The plan would boost the U.S. economy and eliminate fossil fuel use in ten years.
The curious death of 1631 and what it says about the future of addressing climate change.
Zinke shrunk national monuments, rolled back sage grouse protections and ramped up drilling.
While climate-focused candidates won key races in the region, ballot initiatives to limit fossil fuels’ effects failed.
A musician finds a home among a small town’s orchards and fields.
The Department of Interior’s failure to extend restrictions exposes the weaknesses of a key environmental law.
A dearth of professional help leaves small-town residents seeking help from one another.
The outdoor industry fills a unique role in the West as a political force and as an entity getting more people outside.
Visits to public lands and consumer spending grow, as agency budgets atrophy.
A group of New Mexico newsrooms examines the future of broadband access in rural communities.
Tribal nations act to prevent more industrial exploration on their ancestral lands.
A discussion on the State of Jefferson, a California movement renewed under Trump.
A new project taps into how rural Montana is grappling with its uncertain future.
An interactive, year-by-year look at the current insurgency.
Editor Tay Wiles unpacks how the legal dispute embodies this political moment.
A project looks at how communities are faring in rural New Mexico.
The president may think climate change is a hoax, but communities across the West are facing reality.
A look at the Elwha unleashed.
Interior Secretary Zinke says he will recommend reductions to some monuments, but not eliminations.
How to confront hard truths about climate change and ecocide.
Trump’s Interior Department has announced the bear will no longer receive endangered species protection.
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