Where exotic can also be local, and seasonal means more than freshly harvested.
Food
Posted inMay 2025: The Art of the Cruise
I wish I was ice fishing
On city life and a longing for the richness of the sun and the seasons.
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The Eastern Shoshone are reclassifying buffalo as wildlife instead of livestock
The intent is to restore buffalo on the land and challenge the link between animal and product.
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Farmers face frozen jobs and heavier workloads under DOGE ‘efficiency’ budget
Billions in halted or canceled grants, gutted local offices, market turmoil and broken trust are at stake across the West.
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Forest Service pauses commercial huckleberry picking in Gifford Pinchot National Forest
The berries are a critical resource for the Ḱamíłpa Band of the Yakama Nation and have become a big market of the Pacific Northwest food industry.
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Trump’s funding freeze of Indigenous food programs may violate treaty law
According to legal experts, the cutoff erodes the little trust Indian Country has in the federal government.
Posted inMarch 2025: The Berry Pickers
The true cost of the huckleberry industry
The Ḱamíłpa Band of the Yakama Nation has wanted an end to commercial picking of a critical cultural resource for years. Finally, the Forest Service is expected to make a decision.
Posted inFebruary 2025: Immigrant Stories
Bringing black abalone back from the brink
To save the species, researchers translocated the endangered California mollusk.
Posted inIssues
A writer finds freedom in being unapologetically Indigenous
On strengthening roots in a new place.
Posted inIssues
Fish camp in Alaska – without the fish
Yukon River communities fight to maintain their salmon fishing traditions.
Posted inNovember 2024: The Once and Future Prairie
Your lawn could host an endangered ecosystem
In the effort to restore the Palouse Prairie, no project is too small.
Posted inNovember 2024: The Once and Future Prairie
The search for a taste of home in a new place
After a move from rural to urban Alaska, a writer hunts for the blueberries that nourish her family, body and spirit.
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Denver’s last slaughterhouse is on the ballot
Voters face a complicated choice between jobs, workers’ rights and animal welfare.
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A dinner party at the end of the world
Scenes from a Wyoming wild game potluck amid a climate crisis.
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How an unexpected storm reshaped Alaska’s west coast
Disaster recovery is a long game and the boats and driftwood that pepper Western Alaska’s tundra are the perfect reminder.
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Banning concentrated feedlots is on the ballot in Sonoma
Locals worry what this could mean for a region dominated by agritourism.
Posted inAugust 2024: In the Wake of the Floods
After historic floods, the safety net failed small farmers
Climate disasters are killing the largest subset of California farms. Government programs are too.
Posted inAugust 2024: In the Wake of the Floods
What the tundra provides
Picking blueberries fills more than just a bucket.
Posted inJune 2024: The Idea of Wilderness
Elusive elephants, zany zebras and Idaho anti-anthropophagists
Mishaps and mayhem from around the region.