2011’s huge wildfires and what they portend. Spoiler: More dead trees.
Arizona
Posted inJanuary 12, 2015: What Are We Thinking?
A Hot Day’s Night
New fiction from the author of ‘The Windup Girl.’
Posted inJanuary 12, 2015: What Are We Thinking?
The New, New West
Introducing the 2014 Bell Prize winner.
Posted inDecember 22, 2014: The Dust Detectives
A question of fluency on the Navajo Nation
A cultural debate leaves the presidency in limbo.
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A progress report on the Colorado River pulse
Researchers are sifting through the impacts of last spring’s release.
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How Native Americans have shaped the year’s biggest environmental debates
And how lawmakers can improve their record next year.
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Cities look to farms for help in Colorado River drought
West’s biggest water agencies finalize a major agreement to boost Lake Mead levels.
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Mining proposal threatens Arizona town’s water supply
Report outlines risks that mine will deplete aquifer and contaminate groundwater.
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Light rail exists in Denver, and comes to Phoenix
Nelson Harvey takes a ride on Denver’s light rail to see whether it’s changed his city for the better.
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Why are Hopi rangers impounding sheep at Black Mesa?
The latest in a fraught relationship between Navajo and Hopi in northern Arizona.
Posted inNovember 24, 2014: Transportation Transformation
Light rail enters the West’s most sprawling metropolis
New transportation sparked a renaissance in Denver. Can it do the same for Phoenix?
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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.
Posted inNovember 10, 2014: Fallout
Review of “The Memory of Stone: Meditations on the Canyons of the West”
Photographs from Utah’s Monument Valley to the Petrified Forest.
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Navajo language threatens candidate’s presidential bid
Chris Deschene faces disqualification over lack of fluency.
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After 11 years, Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument reopens
Increased border security means that all 517 square miles are again open to the public.
Posted inSeptember 15, 2014: Books & Essays
Forgetting we live in the desert
Rafael de Grenade on tough landscapes, writing as inquiry and climate change.
Posted inSeptember 1, 2014: Lost in the Woods
Lost in the woods
How the Forest Service is botching its biggest restoration project.
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Two political elites prevail in Navajo primary melee
Shirley and Deschene pull ahead of 15 other candidates.