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Posted inMay 1, 2022: New Ways of Seeing the West
On ‘Yellowstone,’ and the white desire to control the narrative
We don’t share land here.
Posted inMay 1, 2022: New Ways of Seeing the West
Cows, coal and climate change: A Q&A with the new BLM director
Tracy Stone-Manning discusses how the federal agency sees conservation, the climate crisis and the Indigenous history of public lands.
Posted inJune 1, 2022: A Legacy of Weapons and War
Powell’s looming power problem
Drought and demand threaten a critical component of the Western grid.
Posted inApril 1, 2022: The Archives Issue
How we know what we know about the past
The collected and preserved can give us a window into history.
Posted inApril 1, 2022: The Archives Issue
Hungry, habituated bears; viral pirates; truffle snuffers
Mishaps and mayhem from around the region.
Posted inApril 1, 2022: The Archives Issue
What’s wrong with the Manitou Cliff Dwellings Museum and Preserve?
Archival documents reveal the true origins of a popular Colorado tourist attraction.
Posted inApril 1, 2022: The Archives Issue
How a California archive reconnected a New Mexico family with its Chinese roots
Aimee Towi Mae Tang’s Chinese American family never talked about the past. She decided to change that.
Posted inApril 1, 2022: The Archives Issue
A mystery worm is threatening the future of Washington’s oysters
Clues from 1,000-year-old shells could reveal the parasite’s past —and portend the future.
Posted inApril 1, 2022: The Archives Issue
Schussing through time
A Utah library holds a comprehensive archive commemorating ski sports.
Posted inApril 1, 2022: The Archives Issue
The children at rest in 4-H Park
The city of Albuquerque is finally working to address the legacy of its boarding school cemetery.
Posted inApril 1, 2022: The Archives Issue
Idaho’s only Black history museum
A museum in Boise seeks to deepen the state’s understanding of its past.
Posted inApril 1, 2022: The Archives Issue
Images from the first-known Native American female photographer
Jennie Ross Cobb put her subjects at ease for uniquely candid photos from early 1900s Indian Territory.
Posted inApril 1, 2022: The Archives Issue
My archive: 20 years of Los Angeles’ LGBTQ+ movement
Between 1978 and 1998, Lydia Otero built a collection around queer activism in LA.
Posted inApril 1, 2022: The Archives Issue
A living archive of Oregon’s hops and beer
More than a beverage, beer helps tell the history of the Northwest.
Posted inApril 1, 2022: The Archives Issue
When lockdown happened, historians took to the internet
The COVID-19 Digital Archive documents life during a global pandemic.
Posted inApril 1, 2022: The Archives Issue
How the Earth stores records of the past
When human data doesn’t go back far enough, researchers turn to natural archives.
Posted inMay 1, 2022: New Ways of Seeing the West
There are millions of acres of ‘failing’ rangelands, data shows
54 million acres of federal land managed by the Bureau of Land Management aren’t meeting the agency’s own land-health standards.