Magazine
June 27, 2011
A Wyoming farmer battles industry and bureaucracy trying to find out whether hydraulic fracturing - used in natural gas drilling - polluted his drinking water.
Feature
A Wyoming farmer battles industry and bureaucracy trying to find out whether hydraulic fracturing -- used in natural gas drilling -- polluted his drinking water.
Current
Utah religious, business and political leaders suggest an immigration compromise, but the state's lawmakers are terrified of being caught voting for "amnesty."
A retired geophysicist named Jim Smith successfully challenges Arizona's Coconino National Forest on access fees.
A wastewater treatment plant provides nutrients that help endangered steelhead thrive in an Idaho stream.
Arizona's Wallow Fire has now out-burned the gigantic Rodeo-Chediski Fire of 2002.
Western legislatures slash spending, confront budget gaps, attempt environmental rollbacks and propose a few silly laws.
Editor's Note
A Wyoming farmer's long struggle to find out what's polluting his water gets the attention of the EPA - and inspires reporter Abrahm Lustgarten of ProPublica.
Essays
Flagstaff, Ariz., may not really have its own river, but to many of its residents it is a true river town.
Dear Friends
HCN skips issue; summer visitors; Jonathan Thompson becomes a Ted Scripps Fellow in Environmental Journalism; correction.
Book Reviews
The photos and essays gathered in this collection of photographs and essays celebrate the austere beauty of a vast dry landscape.
The 20 essays in this collection take us into the wacky and wonderful lives of some of the many people who work in the country's national parks.
