In the region’s most impoverished rural areas, food pantries fill gaps of grocery stores.
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How to feed the masses in small-town America
New business models bring food to towns too small for big box stores.
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Training programs teach farmers to do more with less
Can blackberries and tilapia help New Mexico’s small farmers thrive?
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Is there a way to revive drought-stricken soil?
In Colorado, potato-farming brothers are saving water by using cover crops innovatively.
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Is farming a public service?
To build a new generation of farmers, one nonprofit wants states to forgive student loans.
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Food, food, everywhere, and not a bite to eat
Reforming America’s broken food and agriculture systems is possible, but it won’t happen overnight.
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After thousands of fish die in the Yellowstone River, officials lift boating bans
Stretches of the river remain closed as officials scramble to save the iconic fishery.
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California nixes funding for coal export terminals
Governor’s bill blocks transport to markets in Asia.
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American pika disappearing from Western regions
The pika is fading from historical habitat and a new study points to climate change.
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What every hiker should know (by now)
In the Grand Canyon, pack in some common sense.
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Legislation revives Grand Canyon development question
Escalade bill leaves opponents scrambling for support, and tribal members divided.
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The new Malheur occupants: Grazing cattle
The Bundy clan may be in jail, but ranchers continue to take advantage of the refuge.
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How British Columbia’s coastal people fertilized the forest
Indigenous people’s castoff clamshells made the forest grow bigger.
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Western monarch butterflies get a closer look
A recent study documents the butterfly’s decline, while a new project looks at how to improve its population.
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Tribes band together to fight an oil pipeline
The Standing Sioux protest in North Dakota reverberates around the world.
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Photos of the North Dakota pipeline protest
Background on the Standing Rock Sioux pipeline protests and how social media and climate activism raised their profile.
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The NASA scientist keeping an eye on California’s drought
Senior scientist Jay Famiglietti’s research looks at the West and the world’s dwindling water resources.
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New documentary offers a sharp look at the West’s water crisis
In ‘Killing the Colorado,’ people, not nature, are responsible for shortages.
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Ranch Diaries: Late summer rain brings new wild foods
How to use wild purslane and algerita berries, and how to not mistake death camas for wild onions.
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In Northern New Mexico, a piñon-nut culture is vanishing
A warming climate hits piñon pines — and the community that harvests them.