The famed park's wildlife ain't where it used to be
Items by Michelle Nijhuis
Wallace Stegner struggled over the ethics of writing a “fictional biography” of labor organizer Joe Hill; today, filmmakers blithely make “fictional biographies” of living characters like Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg.
Bruce Babbitt lets loose
Suspected wolf scat was from coyotes, DNA analysis finds
Evidence suggests that wolves may have returned to Colorado, and they are here to stay.
Kasia Broussalian spent two sweltering months photographing the people who live along the Colorado River.
A writer looks into the history of the people who lived on the Colorado mesa she now calls home.
An exhausted young mother, her lively new baby, and a compassionate drunkard have a brief but lovely encounter on the plaza in Taos, N.M.
Spring dust storms speed up snowmelt
Should Westerners try to rescue species from climate change?
A habitual hiker finds familiar plants blooming in new places.
Climate change and the fate of the West's least favorite plants
Field testing of CO2 sequestration underway in Washington state.
Big new forest study documents a regional die-off.
Here's yet another reason to dislike dirty fuels.
Rural folks find common ground at a vet's office in Western Colorado.
In rural western Colorado, a vet tends to pets and their humans. Michelle Nijhuis reads her essay, along with slides by JT Thomas.
Joel Berger’s The Better to Eat You With and William Stolzenburg’s Where the Wild Things Were examine predators and the role of fear.
In Grand Junction Colo. a team of investigators excavate a downtown parking lot in search of an old safe supposedly buried a century ago.
On the drought-stricken Navajo Nation, scientist Margaret
Hiza Redsteer studies the movement of sand dunes.
The essays in Matt Love’s anthology Red Hot and
Rollin’ take a lively and nostalgic look at Oregon in 1977,
the year the Portland Trailblazers won their one and only NBA
championship.
In Chrysalis: Maria Sibylla Merian and the Secrets of
Metamorphosis, Kim Todd uncovers the life and legacy of a
pioneering 17th century woman
Medical historian Gregg Mitman offers a fascinating
history of the national allergy boom in Breathing Space: How Our
Allergies Shape Our Lives and Landscape.
Chad Moore and the members of the Park Service Night Sky
Team keep an eye on the stars in the nation’s parks and
monuments.
Scientists unleash a new weapon in the fight against
invasive tamarisk – a tiny exotic beetle from
Kazakhstan.
The Western novel is not entirely dead; it has simply
changed a great deal since the glory days of Zane Grey.
Longtime hitchhiker Dev Carey tells Michelle Nijhuis about
some of his best – and worst – adventures on Western
highways.
Removing dams is more a complex experiment than a panacea,
as Arizona’s Fossil Creek shows.
Botanist Sue Rutman has had surprising success just
yanking up buffelgrass, but herbicides remain the first line of
defense
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