How one Indigenous family is navigating two very different housing problems.
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February 5, 2018
In this issue, the feature examines one Indigenous family's experience with structural inequities that affect the availability of housing in both rural and urban areas. Inequity is also examined in the Letter from California, on how federal tax policy will exacerbate growing class disparities. And finally, a story of a binational community shows what could be, once we look beyond borders, whether of class or nations.
Feature
Sidebar
Decreased federal assistance has caused a dearth in affordable housing.
Current
Improved storm forecasts could help reservoir managers store more water while avoiding floods.
Under Trump, the natural gas pipeline gets a third chance.
The Trump administration will allow oil and gas leasing in key sagebrush lands.
In southern New Mexico, a dream of a bi-national community, not a concrete wall.
Dam experts release a report on the California dam’s spillway vulnerabilities.
Now that water deliveries have ended, it’s a race for a solution.
New research links natural gas compressors with physical impacts on birds.
Editor's Note
Essays
An ode to a time of both sorrow and new found laughter.
Perspective
We are witnessing a government restructuring and a cultural divide widening.
Writers on the Range
Annual culls, loss of genetic diversity and climate change set the odds against American bison.
Book Reviews
An encyclopedia encapsulates a lasting earthwork of the 70s Land Movement.
A new book details the rise of the Sierra Club from hiking group to political force.
A new book explores the dark characters that make the wide-open West their home.
Heard Around the West
Mishaps and mayhem from around the region.
Dear Friends
A satellite office to open in Gunnison, and a staffer moves on.
Letters
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