As agricultural laborers continue to bear the brunt of climate change, activists in Washington chart a new path for climate justice.
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February 1, 2022
This month's feature story looks into how Western farmworkers bear the brunt of the impacts of climate change, doing back-breaking labor in triple-digit temperatures. In response, activists in Washington are charting a new path to climate justice. This story is accompanied by the powerful artwork by farmworkers and their allies. Elsewhere, we meet Iniko, the baby condor that became a celebrity, and we learn to love the Pacific lamprey, a species that outlived the dinosaurs but needs human help today. In Oregon, a non-Native developer is attempting to open a gaming operation that threatens tribal sovereignty. Hydrologist Phoebe Suino talks about the Rio Grande and Indigenous water rights, and the "green metals" that power our electric vehicles spark a not-very-green mining boom. Ben Goldfarb ponders the deeper meaning of the film "Don’t Look Up," and a writer wonders whether the only thing standing between Butte, Montana, and gentrification is the fascinating but deadly Berkeley Pit. Laureli Ivanoff's column, "The Seasons of Uŋalaqłiq," makes its debut, and Tiffany Midge takes charge of "Heard around the West."
Feature
Artwork created by farmworkers and their communities paints an authentic picture of farm labor in Washington.
Reportage
During the pandemic, a chick named Iniko became an ambassador for conservation from her redwood nest.
Energy Fuels Resources was found in violation for improper handling of radioactive waste storage.
Using horse-racing laws, a shadowy state agency and a billionaire push for a private casino that threatens tribes’ self-sufficiency.
Cooperative efforts between tribes and non-Native institutions are helping conserve the under-researched Devonian darlings.
Editor's Note
How to preserve what we love about the West in a way that is fair to all cultures and stakeholders, and that doesn’t leave anyone behind.
Facts & Figures
The need for energy-transition metals breathes life into new mines in the West.
Essays
An Inupiaq writer welcomes the nourishing glow of a seal oil lamp into her home.
Conversation
Phoebe Suina on the Rio Grande River, Pueblo inclusion and the need for holistic solutions to our man-made disaster.
Perspective
Butte, Montana, doesn’t have a major art museum. Instead, it has a gigantic toxic pit.
The film ‘Don’t Look Up’ turns climate change into an allegorical comet.
Heard Around the West
Mishaps and mayhem from around the region.
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