Excerpts from official accounts of threats against U.S. Forest Service and BLM employees.
Reports from the front lines
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Nowhere left to run
Review of “Point of Direction” by Rachel Weaver
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Midterm races to watch
Only a handful of seats are truly up for grabs, including two in the West, and they’re being fiercely contested.
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House of Misrepresentatives
What would happen to the West’s environment if the House of Representatives had its way.
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Goodbye Ray Ring — sort of
A long-time senior editor goes part-time, and HCN gains new board members.
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Roots of rebellion: A forum
Four experts discuss threats to federal public-lands employees and where we go from here.
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Public-land employees are easy targets for a violent, government-hating fringe.
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Bookshop oversight
I enjoy your publication and especially liked “The best little bookshops in the West” (HCN, 9/15/14). I am a faithful shopper of Changing Hands, two miles from my home. However, you missed one very important shop — Singing Wind Bookshop, in the middle of a cattle ranch in Benson, Arizona. They are visited by worldwide […]
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An unbent issue
I wanted you to know how much I love the cover of your “Books & Essays” special issue (HCN, 9/15/14), with the Serena Supplee painting. I have her artwork on every wall in my office, the walls of which are painted pink and orange to evoke the Colorado Plateau’s red rock at sunset and sunrise. […]
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Pronghorn were shot and left on the side of the road in Wyoming.
Mishaps and mayhem from around the region.
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From saltwater to drinking water?
California considers desalination as a remedy for water woes
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Regulators release report on viability of nuclear waste storage at Yucca
But it doesn’t mean the Nevada site is safe — or even back on the docket.
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The thing just beyond our reach
A portrait of writer Charles Bowden, told by people he’s written about and editors he’s worked with.
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Depression era photos from your hometown
A new Yale project allows viewers to explore 175,000 images by county.
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In campaign ads, emotion trumps fact and guns buy votes
What I learned from watching political ads on YouTube two weeks before the midterms.
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Ten lessons from the American Robin
For climate activists, this feels like the last moment. The huge marches in New York and other cities around the world were a reflection, among other things, of desperation. How loud must we scream before our so-called leaders will listen? How many hundreds of thousands must fill the streets before any of those leaders act? […]
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Grass-fed beef can be good 365 days a year
There is an unfortunate stigma attached to frozen meat, a widely held assumption that it’s inferior to fresh meat. This prejudice runs deep enough that fast-food chain Wendy’s promises that its burger meat is “always fresh, never frozen.” This belief, and all the retail efforts that cater to it, are misguided. If processed correctly, frozen […]
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Utilities experiment on the rural Northwest
Real-time response to demand could radically shift how the grid operates.