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December 21, 2015
The researchers digging up mysteries of the ocean in Nevada's desert, plus death by cop and gun control in the West. Cover illustration: Shonisaurus popularis and Californosaurus perrini, depicted by Boise illustrator Todd Marshall.
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Jack Yantis, an Idaho rancher, raised the profile of rural police brutality.
In the wake of mass killings, a state-by-state look at Western gun policy.
Poor districts have breathed I-70’s pollution for decades. Now they’re facing its expansion.
White bark pines are dying from infection across the Northern Rockies.
A rancher fights to protect a restored wetland against torrential rain and other threats.
As ski resorts push for a mega-connection, backcountry skiers try to save some wild.
The project will start environment reviews, but it's far from a done deal.
The Four Forest Restoration Initiative was supposed to be the largest such project ever attempted.
News in brief.
Editor's Note
Essays
A writer and her family court the unknown.
Book Reviews
A review of William T. Vollmann's “The Dying Grass”
Review of Benjamin Percy's “The Dead Lands.”
Writers on the Range
Heard Around the West
Mishaps and mayhem from around the region.
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