An excerpt from Rebecca Clarren’s new novel explores the effects of fossil fuel development on a Western ranch.
Items by Rebecca Clarren
Companies deposit thousands of pounds of herbicides each year on Oregon forests.
Long-banned pesticides linger in the soils of neighborhoods built on former agricultural land in central Washington.
High Country News offers tips on how to garden safely if your home is built on at-risk former farmland.
Soil samples from the yards of two Yakima families showed intriguing but not always comforting results.
Dairy work is dangerous, but lax laws and reporting requirements make it difficult to tell how many people are hurt or killed in dairies each year.
A combination of lax laws and poor oversight leaves dairy workers vulnerable to exploitation and on-the-job dangers.
The Suquamish Tribe is resurrecting the old ways of Northwestern Indians – particularly their traditional canoe journeys – to improve the health of its young people.
Rio Blanco County, Colo., which was just recently buzzing with oil and gas development, now faces an unexpected slowdown as the national economy tanks.
The EPA under George Bush has put the health of Westerners at risk in order to make life easier for big industry.
Rebecca Clarren takes a close look at the sexual harassment faced by women farmworkers, most of them non-English speaking immigrants.
Latino activist Dolores Huerta continues to inspire and organize after 50 lively years.
Commentary: states trying to maneuver around feds' failure
to act
Rebecca Clarren talks to migrant farmworker women about a
threat they face every day in the fields: sexual harassment and
assault by coworkers and bosses.
The writer tells what's at stake when South Dakota votes
on an abortion ban
A 38-year-old female deckhand who calls herself Moe
Bowstern created the zine called Xtra Tuf to
explore the turbulent culture of the fishing industry
Since 1992, Dan Price has been publishing a hand-drawn,
illustrated zine called Moonlight Chronicles from his tiny, hobbit-style home in a meadow in Joseph,
Ore.
The writer says nobody knows what effect widespread
drilling for natural gas is having on the health of nearby
residents
The writer says we fail to count the costs of illegal
border crossers to our public lands
The writer sees devastation on the ground from gas wells
fragmenting the land
The Klamath Basin water bank was intended to end a
tug-of-war over scarce water, but with some farmers selling off
water while other wells go dry, tensions in the Oregon valley are
only getting worse
The writer says undocumented women have long been prey in
the fields to men who harass and rape them. Finally, some women are
getting legal help to fight back
The writer says we know fish and birds died off the West
Coast; what we don't know is why
The writer finds that the label for organic milk is being
watered down
The writer supports the claims of "downwinders" near the
Hanford Nuclear Reservation who are finally getting their day in
court
An emotionally wounded writer is cheered by a visit to
Mount St. Helens, even though heavy clouds obscured the
volcano
Oregon’s famed land-use laws take a stake to the
heart, thanks to voter ire and planners' failure to explain the
benefits of a system that has kept strip-malls and sprawl to a
minimum
The writer says a rural and property-owners’ revolt
will reshape Oregon’s famed planning regulations
The writer travels to Mount St. Helens to join the throngs
watching for a volcanic eruption
The Bush administration’s new salmon plan treats
dams as a natural part of the landscape, and sees a recovery plan
as more important than actual species recovery
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