A couple draws and writes about the complexities of bristlecone pines and humans.
Book Reviews
Posted inMay 1, 2017: Change Comes to Short Creek
Love, loss and nuclear reactors
Two new books explore the perspectives of women during the West’s nuclear boom.
Posted inMay 1, 2017: Change Comes to Short Creek
What is owed to a damaged river?
A new book illustrates the Duwamish’s difficult path to recovery.
Posted inApril 3, 2017: Firestorm
At home with the ‘unsettlers’
A new book features characters who have gone far beyond what most of us consider ‘good enough.’
Posted inMarch 20, 2017: The Tree Ring
A tale of two Roosevelts
Two books examine how both Theodore and Franklin D. Roosevelt helped build an American conservation ethos.
Posted inMarch 20, 2017: The Tree Ring
Nature got your heart?
These photos tell the story of writer John Nichols’ love affair with the wild.
Posted inMarch 6, 2017: Uncomfortable Corners
Relics of Montana’s everyday past
Abstract photos offer an unsentimental beauty.
Posted inFebruary 20, 2017: Overdosed
Artful science
Data and poetry converge in an experimental forest.
Posted inFebruary 20, 2017: Overdosed
The winding beauty of Southwest deserts
A collection of photographs capture nature’s rhythms.
Posted inFebruary 6, 2017: River of Healing
How to see the urban wild
Practical advice for the nature-lonely city-dweller.
Posted inFebruary 6, 2017: River of Healing
The Grand Canyon, like you’ve never seen it
An artist’s connection to the landscape through her paintings.
Posted inJanuary 23, 2017: For Which it Stands
The story behind New Mexico’s lowriders
A new collection examines the elaborate cars and their place in Mexican-American culture.
Posted inJanuary 23, 2017: For Which it Stands
The heartache of Montana’s solitude
Two new fiction works from Big Sky Country crave human connectivity.
Posted inDecember 26, 2016: Obama and the West
Reconciling two views of a Hopi massacre
Native American and European approaches to history still clash.
Posted inDecember 26, 2016: Obama and the West
An inside look at the national parks
Hard-won photos of the National Park Service’s ‘Treasured Lands.’
Posted inDecember 12, 2016: How the Park Service is Failing Women
The historical lifetime of the beaver
Explaining our complex relationship with North America’s largest rodent.
Posted inNovember 28, 2016: A Weird and Perfect Wilderness
See photos of a journey down the Old Rio Grande
Through the lens of the people who lived near and were shaped by the river.
Posted inNovember 14, 2016: The Long View
15 books every well-versed Westerner should read
A reading list for understanding the region.
Posted inNovember 14, 2016: The Long View
Recommended reading to take you into the next year
The season’s best titles for new fiction and nonfiction.
Posted inNovember 14, 2016: The Long View
Revisiting Idaho’s lead-poisoning legacy
A new book documents a catastrophe in Silver Valley.