When I quit my job and joined a pilgrimage of heartbroken dreamers staggering toward Alaska.
Solace at the end of Homer Spit
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Social work blues
Review of ‘Fourth of July Creek’ by Smith Henderson.
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Selfies with bears, a stolen train in Wyoming, a loose bull and more.
Mishaps and mayhem from around the region.
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In the footsteps of a roving genius
Photographs and an interview from high peaks of the Alaska Range.
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Less name-calling
“Bad Medicine” makes some valid points, but it turns me cold when it starts out with name calling, specifically “ultra-right” and later in the article “ultra-conservative.” Simply disagreeing with the author’s point of view seems to make people extreme, in the author’s opinion. If you want to draw people towards your point of view, then don’t call them inflammatory names. At best, it […]
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Latest: New air quality requirements for Utah oil & gas
Operators must install low or no-bleed valves on tanks to curb venting into the air.
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Latest: Bison transferred to Fort Peck Indian Reservation
Disease-free animals from Yellowstone get a new home.
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I hear the train a comin’
I’m not a city person. I live just outside a small town of less than 2,000 souls, and I like its gritty, two-block downtown, where you see your neighbors every time you pick up the mail or buy some dog food; I like the quiet so deep that you can hear the wingbeats of ravens […]
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Gifts — and memories — for the ages
HCN staff and board members on their favorite green holiday gifts.
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Flocks of visitors
Readers visit from Albuquerque, Santa Fe, North Carolina and more.
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Can biomimicry tackle our toughest water problems?
With floating islands and other inventions, eco-entrepreneur Bruce Kania thinks so.
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Blue-eyed boy
Chuck Bowden’s thoughtful side is what I will always remember (“Charles Bowden’s Fury,” HCN, 10/13/14). Arriving with the newspapers on my Sedona porch some 25 years ago, just when sunlight was sneaking through early morning clouds, was an unexpected visitor. Standing there was a hefty man, ruggedly handsome, in a windblown sort of way, dressed in […]
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A poetic search for a lost father
Review of ‘Crow Blue’ Adriana Lisboa.
Posted inNovember 24, 2014: Transportation Transformation
For climate activists, a bright spot in a dismal election
Environmentalists in the Pacific Northwest may lead the way.
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Compromise on Colorado’s Roan Plateau
Industry and conservationists reach a deal to protect tens of thousands of acres.
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Commission to decide on Gila River’s fate
Approval for a diversion expected Monday despite broad criticism.
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Should the president of the Navajo Nation speak Navajo?
A play-by-play of an election that poses big questions about fluency.
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Relearning history in all its complexity
Remember that fourth-grade Thanksgiving pageant, the big feast with Indians providing most of the food? Squanto was there, kindly teaching the Pilgrims how to put a fish in a hole to grow corn and beans and squash. Somehow I don’t remember learning that Squanto — more properly “Tisquantum”— was taken to England and then abducted […]
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Wyoming grapples with how to fund wildlife conservation
Hunters may lose influence as other groups are asked to increase their contributions.
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Giving thanks and looking forward
With Thanksgiving near, it’s the season to be grateful and take stock of our situation. In that spirit, here’s some of what I’ve been thinking about. First, as we conclude our celebration of the golden anniversary of the Wilderness Act, let’s give a cheer to the 88th U.S. Congress, which, in 1964, passed the law […]