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January 21, 2019
In our first issue of the year, we examine the failure of Washington’s carbon tax as a way to discuss the challenge of climate policy. We also dive into the strange relationship between burrowing owls and agriculture near the Salton Sea; analyze the ways in which hunters and anglers are weighing in on politics; and examine how Indigenous podcasting is taking the “true crime” genre to new levels, allowing it to discuss major issues in new ways.
Feature
Current
Despite ecological harm, energy development moves forward in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.
Data confirms climate model predictions of less snow that melts earlier in the season.
In the midterms, public land access issues helped several candidates nab governorships.
Immigrant workers and day laborers are especially vulnerable to health risks and wage theft.
Can the tiny raptors adapt to irrigation changes in California’s warming farm fields?
In the podcasts ‘Finding Cleo’ and ‘Thunder Bay,’ First Nations reporters reinvent a common formula. Can they find even bigger audiences?
Editor's Note
We’ve become the agents of our own undoing.
Essays
A researcher’s mission to document the wild records the song of a famous Yellowstone canine.
Perspective
Where coal-state Sen. John Barrasso got it wrong in a recent New York Times op-ed.
Book Reviews
Ansel Adams and Dorothea Lange capture a time when the religion was growing.
A biologist draws on his fieldwork to consider the world of muskoxen during climate change.
Heard Around the West
Mishaps and mayhem from around the region.
Dear Friends
Staffers bump up against the government shutdown on holiday break.
Letters
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