The wild horse and burro debate in the West has devolved to knee-jerk rancor.
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Digitally disconnected
How rural students struggle to find internet access, and what one small college is doing about it.
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How one tiny high school hacked Advanced Placement classes
Paonia High brings college-level coursework to rural students by partnering with its neighbors.
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A helping hand for migrant students
In the San Luis Valley, migrant workers build community around student success.
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Big steps for small schools
In the battle to train the next generation of rural Western leaders, schools are on the frontlines.
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Native schools move forward by looking to the past
How a New Mexico network is building a new generation of native schools.
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Wyoming needs to stop stalling wind power
What’s at stake with the Republican push to tax renewable energy companies
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West Obsessed: How Trump is recoloring the West’s politics
Listen to the writers and editors of the magazine discuss the backlash to Donald Trump’s run for president.
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The 10 most expensive wildfires in the West’s history
Why suppressing wildfires costs public land agencies so much money.
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Malheur occupation impacts linger throughout the West
Sagebrush Rebellion flareups cooled off after Bundy arrests but the standoff’s effects ripple out.
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Replacing Columbus Day with Indigenous Peoples Day isn’t enough
To better honor their history, activists want “justice, not gestures.”
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Vegan food may not be as “vegan” as you think
Plant-based food processing collides with the ugliest side of animal production.
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A look at Gold Butte, Nevada, two years after the Bundy standoff
Surveyors found illegal cattle grazing, defaced petroglyphs and ditch-digging.
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An argument against internet access in parks
Tethered by their devices, “younglings” of today don’t want to camp.
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What the Clean Power Plan means for you
The U.S. Court of Appeals will hear arguments on the federal carbon plan in the coming weeks.
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Where the Clean Power Plan will have the most impact
The federal rule would intensify an existing trend toward clean energy.
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A couple living off the grid fought water law — and won
The decision could upend a Colorado rule that goes back 150 years.
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How this year’s general election repeats history
The messy 2016 presidential election echoes deeply flawed candidates of the past.
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Yosemite’s superintendent retires after discrimination allegations surface
New allegations of harassment, discrimination crop up in Yosemite, Yellowstone.
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Burner of Land Management
It takes year-round planning to host 70,000 people in one of the planet’s harshest environments.