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Posted inApril 1, 2023: The Path Forward
How do you keep migrating birds off a giant toxic lake?
Engineers struggled to keep snow geese away from Montana’s deadly Superfund site, but ecologists have a new plan.
Posted inApril 1, 2023: The Path Forward
Jackson as a safe haven in ‘The Last of Us’ is science fiction
Only the extremely wealthy might survive the Apocalypse in today’s western Wyoming town.
Posted inApril 1, 2023: The Path Forward
Tribal nations’ lasting victory in the Mojave Desert
Before Avi Kwa Ame became a national monument, there was the fight for Ward Valley.
Posted inApril 1, 2023: The Path Forward
The natural gas pushback
Local communities want to electrify, but gas interests have other ideas.
Posted inJune 1, 2023: Seen and Unseen
The fight to keep Ohtani basketball alive
Increasing housing costs and the pandemic threaten an important tradition in the Japanese American community.
Posted inMarch 1, 2023: Moving Parts
Finding stillness in the whirl
The West is filled with motion and reflection.
Posted inMarch 1, 2023: Moving Parts
‘Gold in the hills, but not for us’
Scenes from California’s backyard petroculture.
Posted inMarch 1, 2023: Moving Parts
The 90-foot sentinel of Butte, Montana
What does a statue dedicated to mothers reveal about women’s rights?
Posted inMarch 1, 2023: Moving Parts
Trains in the West then, now — and someday?
Mapping the state of the rails across the region.
Posted inMarch 1, 2023: Moving Parts
A little pickle, a fireball and an Indigenous astronaut
Mishaps and mayhem from around the region.
Posted inMarch 1, 2023: Moving Parts
Future-proofing HCN
Long-term plans for the organization come together alongside staff changes.
Posted inMarch 1, 2023: Moving Parts
Get to know the whitebark pine
This threatened tree feeds and shelters the high country.
Posted inMarch 1, 2023: Moving Parts
Wherefore O Birds and Small Fish Surround Me
A poem by Robert Wrigley.
Posted inMarch 1, 2023: Moving Parts
‘I’ve always been a fan of getting people to empathize with a landscape’
#iamthewest: Giving voice to the people that make up communities in the region.
Posted inMarch 1, 2023: Moving Parts
Can camera traps relieve our species’ loneliness?
A community science project reintroduces humans to their fellow mammals.
Posted inMarch 1, 2023: Moving Parts
Green colonialism is flooding the Pacific Northwest
The Yakama Nation is fighting a pumped hydro storage development near Goldendale, Washington – but it’s just one of many.
Posted inMarch 1, 2023: Moving Parts
A demonstration of Black bodies in nature
‘Our family trip to Yosemite has given me access to places I subconsciously felt weren’t home to me.’
Posted inMarch 1, 2023: Moving Parts
Luck and life in pronghorn country
‘Since I was a little girl, on the first day of every month, the first words out of my mouth are rabbit rabbit.’