A longtime Bowden reader remembers the complicated author through two new books.
Items by Laura Paskus
The City of Clovis has a water contamination problem but no easy way to fix it.
Two new titles provide insight on the willful ignorance that lead to the West’s water woes.
Climate change will impact economy, infrastructure and more.
Bev Magennis once covered houses in colorful tiles. Now she writes novels about murder in the rural West.
Biologists go to great lengths to keep the fish alive, but it’s nearly extinct in the wild.
“Yellowstone Has Teeth” by Marjane Ambler
Native archaeologist Theresa Pasqual shares how she works to preserve the cultural resources of Acoma Pueblo in New Mexico.
The author of She Had Some Horses and In Mad Love and War discusses her new memoir, Crazy Brave.
Books about climate change tend to be grim reading, but William deBuys' love for the American Southwest makes his new nonfiction book A Great Aridness beautiful as well as disturbing.
The state backs out of work to help restore wolves to the Southwest after a new governor appoints anti-wolf advocates to the its Game and Fish Commission.
New Mexico's system for doling out licenses to hunt pronghorn gets a poor grade from the state’s hunters.
Poet and novelist Leslie Marmon Silko serves up a place-based memoir in The Turquoise Ledge.
Aaron Michael Morales delves into the challenging lives of Arizonans in his novel, Drowning Tucson.
The Navajo Nation's proposed 1,500-megawatt coal plant always rested on shaky ground. Now, it may collapse entirely.
A tribal attempt to protect New Mexico's Mount Taylor sparks a bitter struggle over uranium mining, religious differences and claims to an ancient landscape.
Charles Bowden's new book, Some of the Dead Are Still Breathing, reiterates the bad news of today but declares that times are changing.
A fiery environmentalist is fondly remembered in Dyana Furmansky's biography, Rosalie Edge, Hawk of Mercy: The Activist Who saved Nature from the Conservationists.
The 12 young women whose bones were found on Albuquerque’s West Mesa led lives as unvalued as the sagebrush landscape that held their murdered bodies.
New Mexico's Democrats need to prove their green mettle by putting an end to a proposed coal-fired power plant.
In the last eight years under Bush, morale – and efficiency – at the Forest Service has plummeted.
In the last eight years under Bush, morale – and efficiency – at the Forest Service has plummeted.
Laura Paskus reminds voters that in an imperfect election system, it’s up to us to make sure our votes are counted.
William deBuys writes poetically and thoughtfully about his own life in New Mexico in The Walk.
Laura Paskus interviews Western intellectual, activist and
writer Rebecca Solnit.
Laura Paskus meets a woman who survived Hiroshima and now
works as an anti-nuclear activist.
Ben Luce is no longer pulling his punches as he battles
for clean energy in New Mexico.
Laura Paskus pays homage to former EPA employee Brad
Crowder, now dying of cancer, who risked his career to be a
whistleblower.
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