After years of religious persecution, tribes face changing natural world.
Climate change could disrupt tribes’ religious practices
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Where will you view the solar eclipse?
Help us plot your destinations for the Aug. 21st event on our live map.
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West Obsessed: Forging a path through Alaska’s wilderness
High Country News discusses how the Frontier State might diversify its economy.
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Bundy Ranch ‘gunmen’ face retrial in Las Vegas
New evidence links defendants to other anti-government gatherings in the West.
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Why 1 million Californians lack safe drinking water
Rural, cash-strapped communities don’t have the means to treat contaminated water.
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The California drought isn’t over, it just went underground
The race to dig deeper wells is a losing game for small rural communities.
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Life between one wildfire and the next
The climate-change train is out of control. What’s a fire-prone small town to do?
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Court rejects temporary block to the methane rule
The ruling snarls Trump’s directive to rollback environmental regulations.
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Wild spaces define who we are as Americans
A veteran explains why public lands are what he fought to protect.
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Take down monuments to Native American oppression
As monuments to slavery come down in the South, others, too, deserve scrutiny.
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Week in review: June 30
Fire season is here, a new wolf recovery plan and health care protester arrests.
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Small towns are the place to challenge immigration policy
Rosa Sabido finds sanctuary from immigrant detention in a politically divided town.
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What ‘America First’ means for energy development
At a hearing, a discussion of Trump’s aggressive oil and gas leasing policies.
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The thru-hike you’ve never heard of: Oregon Desert Trail
Photographer Meg Roussos shares views from her solo-trek deep in the backcountry.
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As the Great Plains disappear, a path to better farming
Since 2009, an area the size of Kansas has been converted to crops.
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Clean water repeal moves forward
The public can now weigh in on the Trump administration’s regulatory rollback.
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The Navajo Nation’s coal economy was built to be exploited
When the plant closes, the Navajo people will suffer.
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The difference between hunting and killing
A writer recalls two contrasting experiences with so-called hunters.
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What Joe Arpaio represents in today’s American West
The embattled lawman faces charges of criminal contempt.
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12 books expelled from Tucson schools
Seven years after Arizona banned Mexican American Studies, some want it back.