An Okie Apache fights his kin to build a casino and bring his people home.
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October 14, 2013
An Apache from Oklahoma fights his kin to build a casino and bring his people home to New Mexico. Plus how we can learn to live with flooding, New Mexico’s attempt to roll back groundwater protections, the mysterious reappearance of a special bumblebee species, and more.
Feature
Current
The September floods give us a chance to learn how to better cope with inevitable natural disasters.
A Western species that crashed in the 1990s may be making a comeback in Washington and Colorado.
Under Gov. Susana Martinez, the state is rolling back some of its strongest environmental protections.
For the first time since 1938, 1 million salmon passed Bonneville Dam to spawn.
Proposed legislation would increase logging in national forests and curb environmental review.
Over the past decade, the West has seen an increase in some rare but scary illnesses.
Photographer Rebecca Drobis looks for universal images of youth on the Blackfeet Reservation in Montana.
Editor's Note
The Fort Sill Apache want to build a casino in New Mexico, but established gaming tribes oppose their efforts.
Essays
Neighbors band together to survive after the Colorado floods.
Book Reviews
Joan Carpenter Troccoli writes about the lives and times of the artists whose works fill the American Museum of Western Art in downtown Denver.
A book review of Godforsaken Idaho by Shawn Vestal
A book review of The Flamethrowers by Rachel Kushner
Heard Around the West
Mishaps and mayhem from around the West.
Dear Friends
We’re scanning in all of the pre-1994 issues for our website; visitors came to call; correction.
Letters
- Militias, MAGA activists and one border town’s complicated resistance
- We shouldn’t celebrate the killing of a mountain lion
- Utah asks for exemption from Forest Service roadless rule
- The Karuk Tribe fights a growing wildfire threat and a lack of funding
- The science behind Colorado’s historic avalanches
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