Will future courts order states to take down fish-blocking dams?
Items by Paul VanDevelder
When the tides pull back the water line, a writer takes a trip through time.
The federal government’s decision on Dakota Access pipeline could signal a shift in U.S.-tribal relations.
It’s high time for a crash course in federalism and representative democracy.
Want to understand the pipeline protests? Start with the Founding Fathers.
Washington will have to fix up culverts that block fish passage.
Oregon is successfully capturing runoff to underground storage.
How the “mega-drought” facing the region got its start.
An essay on the Yellowstone study that shows these predators' fascinating survival dance.
How far are we willing to go and what are we willing to sacrifice to preserve the wild?
Remembering former Oregon Gov. Tom McCall, a centrist who got good things done.
The author reviews the career of outgoing NOAA director Jane Lubchenco and sees a glimmer of hope for salmon, thanks to a new stakeholder process.
A diverse, environmentally sound America is here.
The U.N. Human Rights Council believes that South Dakota's Black Hills
belong to their native Sioux inhabitants -- but do most Americans even
understand the issue?
Elouise Cobell, who fought to bring justice to American Indians defrauded by the federal government, will be remembered as a great Blackfeet warrior.
After 15 long years, Elouise Cobell's class action suit over missing Indian trust fund accounts has been settled.
The floods plaguing the U.S. today are largely the result of the dam-building flurry that began about 60 years ago under the Pick-Sloan Plan.
If federal Judge James Redden does the right thing, the Pacific Northwest’s salmon may finally get the cold, free-flowing water they need to survive.
Oregon has it right: The more money you make, the more taxes you should pay.
The Indian trust suit is settled, but questions remain about the federal government's abuse of those funds.
It's time for politicians and stakeholders to get out of their alternate reality universe, and take down the dams.
Salmon could well be extinct by 2017, and yet Judge James Redden appears to be the only one contemplating the obvious solution: removing four fish-killing dams on the Lower Snake River.
Western writer Wallace Stegner unflinchingly described both the promise and the peril of the American dream.
Paul VanDevelder considers the consequences of “capitalism without a conscience” and predicts the end of free lunches for the West.
Why does the agency still refuse to pay the mineral royalties it owes to Indian plaintiffs?
Paul VanDevelder warns that climate change could devastate
the West’s forests, leaving nothing behind but parched
grasslands.
The writer says this summer's wildfires reflect the
increasing impacts from drought and global climate change
The writer praises a federal judge for once again ruling
for salmon
The writer lambastes the Washington, D.C., operatives who
perpetrated the latest scam on Indian tribes
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