Last year, the state’s Ugashik River was so warm salmon wouldn’t swim up it to spawn.
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Go on a literary road trip through the Golden State
From California dreaming to California realities, here are five books to escape with when you’re stuck at home.
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Who wins and who loses with these 4 regulatory rollbacks?
Under a pandemic, Trump backslides pollution and wildlife protection standards.
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How a small Arizona town is building ecological resilience
A younger generation of activists are being trained in conservation.
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American violence in the time of coronavirus
Author Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz puts armed ‘reopen’ protests in their historical context.
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Will COVID-19 help save small slaughterhouses?
As laborers for the Big Four meatpackers fall ill, small slaughterhouses see unprecedented demand.
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Could COVID-19 lead the way to a $15 minimum wage?
One labor activist sees the pandemic as an opportunity to fight for a better income.
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Indigenous artists hit hard as gig after gig is canceled
The cancellations and postponements have a rippling economic effect across Indian Country.
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Questions surround Utah’s hastily passed inland port
Plans to build a massive distribution hub along the Great Salt Lake divide Utahns and test Western leaders.
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Coronavirus takes a heavy economic toll on rural hospitals
A sudden drop in revenue shows how thin margins threaten small town hospitals.
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Jackson, whole: Community persists with an uncertain future
COVID-19 upends a Wyoming resort town.
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The pandemic is battering oil-state economies
COVID-19 reverberates across the energy world.
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Hispanic-serving colleges and universities struggle to adapt to the pandemic
‘Government support is going to be vital.’
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Casino closures in Indian Country hit core tribal services
Tribal government gaming is at a standstill, amounting to $4.4 billion in lost economic activity.
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Cowboys, Impossible Whoppers and the stories that sell food
Plant-based burger ads offer a new twist on the cowboy icon while perpetuating industrial food culture.
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Gift and theft in the far North
‘Floating Coast,’ the first comprehensive history of the Bering Strait, offers a lesson in ecological economics.
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‘Men like you weren’t meant to own land’
Rural Colorado has a history of discriminatory lending.
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Untangling the global oil market
The U.S. is a net exporter of petroleum, so why isn’t it energy independent?
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Boeing’s history reveals connections and disconnections in the West’s economy
The placelessness of corporations today can imperil communities.
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Billionaires are changing communities and the wild in Wyoming
Sociologist Justin Farrell explores the ways wealth shapes Teton County and the Western U.S.