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April 16, 2018
In this issue, we track the money that poured into groups involved with protests at Standing Rock in North Dakota and trace how one group spent the donations they received. Also in this issue, a look at the development of electric car infrastructure in the Interior West, and a reflection on the dramatic change the Pawnee Buttes in Colorado experienced once natural gas was found.
Feature
Current
One of the oldest agencies in the Department of Interior appears to have some of its worst harassment problems.
Findings from the department’s survey.
New studies detail how hotter temperatures, humid air and wind-blown dust can pummel the Western snowpack.
As Trump’s wall lurches forward, ‘BioBlitz’ records the Borderlands’ biodiversity.
Charging corridors will make an interior West electric-car roadtrip increasingly possible.
An escape of non-native salmon prompted the state to shut down aquaculture.
But conservation groups fear contamination at Colorado’s Rocky Flats still lingers.
Editor's Note
Standing Rock echoed violence of the past and, for many people, awoke desire for atonement.
Essays
Over a year into the Trump presidency, reflections from a young immigrant.
How many people over the centuries have loved the Pawnee Buttes, only to see them ravaged?
Book Reviews
From charging bears to glacier-carved valleys, photographs capture the real nature of the national park.
The saga of O-Six lays bare the intricacies of a familiar, parallel society in wolves.
Heard Around the West
Mishaps and mayhem from around the region.
Dear Friends
As spring blooms in Paonia, more visitors come to the office.
Letters
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