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March 17, 2014
As California kicks its coal habit, economies across the West feel ripple effects. The Navajo Nation digs into its coal economy, geoduck fishermen in the Pacific Northwest take a new tack, and more.
Feature
As the Golden State shifts from coal to clean, economies in other states feel it too.
A tribe digs into a dying industry.
Nevada stakes its renewable energy future on California.
Current
The fate of pollinators like monarchs is intertwined with federal policy.
A handy pamphlet on how to dig out from a tumbleweed takeover of sci-fi proportions.
We are just beginning to understand the true cost of one of America's worst ecological disasters.
A long history of mismanagement at the nuclear waste site drags on.
Some oil and gas companies supported the rules.
Editor's Note
The Golden State's legacy in the Interior West is about to change.
Essays
A couple restores a Seattle home and honors the Austrian Jewish couple who once lived there.
Dear Friends
Happy birthday to our founder, Tom Bell, plus friends stop by the office.
Book Reviews
Review of 'The Residue Years' by Mitchell S. Jackson
Review of 'Return to Oakpine' by Ron Carlson
Heard Around the West
Mishaps and mayhem from around the West.
Multimedia
China banned West Coast shellfish after finding traces of toxins.
Letters
- Kent Schoberle on Ranch Diaries: A New Mexico cattle company is born
- Rich & Terry Fairbanks on Rural communities in the West need a fair shake
- on Jim Deacon, pioneering desert fish biologist, dies
- Larry Bullock on Ranch Diaries: A New Mexico cattle company is born
- Randy Piper on Bark beetle kill leads to more severe fires, right? Well, maybe
