As drones become less expensive, they’re also becoming more ubiquitous outdoors.
Drones intrude on the outdoor experience
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Keystone XL Pipeline gets a step closer to completion
An already-built section of the pipeline spilled 210,000 gallons of oil last week.
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Nationwide, oil pipeline spills are a near-daily reality
As Nebraska OKs Keystone XL route, a look at U.S. oil spills since 2015.
Posted inDecember 25, 2017: Bear Essentials
How Ryan Bundy sees the West
The Bunkerville standoff case portends a trial over federal authority in the region.
Posted inNovember 27, 2017: Profit and Politics
Katie Lee, champion of the Glen Canyon, remembered
Craig Childs recalls the fearless conservationist who loved an undammed river.
Posted inJanuary 22, 2018: A Separatist State of Mind
Fish and Wildlife retracts opposition to Arizona project
As Trump sidelines science, the agency flips on San Pedro River development.
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Standing sentinel over the Umpqua River’s steelhead
A Buddhist fly-angler in Oregon protects fish from death by dynamite.
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The disappearance of Washington’s killer whales
The endangered whales are at a 30-year low, tied to depressed chinook salmon runs.
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How to tell better stories from Indian Country
Native communities are an integral part of the nation’s history—and future. It’s time we started treating them as such.
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Hunters, it’s long past time we stood up for gun control
Hunting isn’t under attack, but our freedom from violence is.
Posted inNovember 13, 2017: Solace and Perspective
What to do if you had just one day left to live
Two writers contemplate their last moments.
Posted inNovember 13, 2017: Solace and Perspective
In line at the Great Wall
In no-longer-so-imaginary future, parents and children are separated at the border.
Posted inNovember 13, 2017: Solace and Perspective
The Kumeyaay poet who’s disrupting nature poetry
Tommy Pico merges natural and personal history of the arid West from Brooklyn, New York.
Posted inNovember 13, 2017: Solace and Perspective
The West, when women are telling the story
Do women write differently about wilderness?
Posted inNovember 13, 2017: Solace and Perspective
Solace and perspective in writings about the West
Western authors offer different lenses through which to understand our region.
Posted inNovember 13, 2017: Solace and Perspective
Seasons change and a reader remembered
Visits from family, new visitors and saying farewell to old friends.
Posted inNovember 13, 2017: Solace and Perspective
A book in hand deepens the backcountry experience
What’s the meaning of lugging literature into the wild?
Posted inNovember 13, 2017: Solace and Perspective
New books to read this fall
A sampling of the season’s best new reads.
Posted inNovember 13, 2017: Solace and Perspective
Fee hike; 6 bills that erode the ESA; Water news matters
HCN.org news in brief.
Posted inNovember 13, 2017: Solace and Perspective
Indie presses in the West
A selection of small publishers from around the region.