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Quoted: your favorite environmental thinkers
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Postcards from fire
‘We will rise from the ashes, sweep them from our children’s hair.’
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‘Real hunger’ creating demand for environmental philosophy
Descriptions of the West’s top programs.
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More questions than answers
When I started work at High Country News last May, I volunteered to oversee the January special issue, the one currently in your hands. Aside from the general notion that it should include ideas about the West’s future, with an educational underpinning, I was given free rein to come up with the theme, solicit the […]
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Introducing the idea of ‘hyperobjects’
A new way of understanding climate change and other phenomena.
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How faith plays into the new conservation debate
Two sides call a truce, at least for now.
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Farewell to Theo Colborn
Marking the passing of an influential environmental scientist
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Can Aldo Leopold’s land ethic tackle our toughest problems?
An argument for ‘voluntary decency.’
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A modern movement in tribal building design
Review of “New Architecture on Indigenous Lands,” by Joy Monice Malnar and Frank Vodvarka
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A Hot Day’s Night
New fiction from the author of ‘The Windup Girl.’
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After a ski patroller’s death, a flurry of questions
Forest Service permitting issues complicate a southwestern Colorado tragedy
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Death of Utah wolf is collateral damage
Shooting was side-effect of state’s aggressive push to control coyotes
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Climate change activism needs anybody
Neighbors find common ground in fighting global warming
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Is altitude causing suicide in the West?
Researchers find that high elevations may affect our emotions in both good and bad ways
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Just another hot year for the record books? Not quite.
How 2014 US temperatures support the case for global weirding.
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Perseverance pays off for the Rocky Mountain Front
A 37-year crusade ends in new protections
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Reading Murkowski’s tea leaves
As chair of the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, the senator from Alaska holds much sway over Western issues
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Young leaders changing the West
From politicians to climate scientists, meet 10 people under 30 who are shaping the region’s future.
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Wyoming grazing dispute threatens bighorn sheep
Rancher’s domestic sheep may pass fatal disease to a major bighorn herd.