A Basque writer transplanted to Nevada takes a critical look at American culture.
Items by Sierra Standish
In "They Treated Us Just Like Indians," anthropologist
Paula Wagoner explores the worlds of Bennett County, S.D., where
whites and Indians live together in not-always-easy
proximity
In her biography, Viola Martinez, California
Paiute: Living in Two Worlds, Diana Meyers Bahr shares
the life story of a remarkable American Indian woman
The "New Homestead Act" now before Congress seeks to
entice the young and skilled back into the Great Plains’
dying towns -- struggling communities like Eads, Colo
Catron County, N.M., landowner Charles Cooksey and the
company he hired to clear a road through a national forest are
fined for damaging archaeological sites on public land
Earthtones: A Nevada Album pairs essays
by Ann Ronald with photos by Stephen Trimble to celebrate the
beauty of an austere landscape
Colorado State Treasurer Mike Coffman wants to use funds
earmarked for historic preservation to promote tourism
instead
California’s Williamson Act, a 40-year-old
farmland-protection program, may be a casualty of the state’s
huge budget deficit
The Navajo Nation has said no to legalized gambling, but
under Arizona’s new Proposition 202, the tribe may benefit
from gambling on other reservations
Land in New Mexico’s Sandia Mountains that has been
fought over by the Sandia Pueblo, the federal government and
private landowners will stay part of the national forest under the
T’uf Shur Bien Preservation Act
The federal government has decided to buy out
California’s Westlands Water District
Don West’s Have Saddle, Will Travel: Low-Impact
Trail Riding and Horse Camping is a rambling meander through
mountains and mesas that should please both horseback riders and
armchair adventurers
The 82,000-acre Hearst Ranch on the Northern California
coast may be protected from development by a land trust
Listing lampreys under the Endangered Species Act could
help preserve habitat for salmon
Survey results are in; HCN gets a makeover; new interns
Sierra Standish and Jess Toubman
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