Sergio Avila, known prominently for his jaguar research, shifted his focus to equity in the outdoors.
Interview
Posted inDecember 9, 2019: Crossing to Safety
Undocumented farmworkers could get citizenship from a new bill in Congress
A United Farm Worker organizer reveals the political strategy behind the scenes.
Posted inNovember 11, 2019: Storied Landscapes
Interview: On negotiating brutality and beauty
In his debut collection, poet Jake Skeets summons beauty through darkness.
Posted inNovember 11, 2019: Storied Landscapes
Q & A: Terry Tempest Williams on erosion as an emotional state
The acclaimed author discusses how she hopes to help people find strength in these times.
Posted inNovember 11, 2019: Storied Landscapes
The case against immigration prisons
Law professor César Cuauhtémoc García Hernández analyzes why America puts so many immigrants behind bars.
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How beef colonized the West and America’s dinner plate
The author of a new book explains how beef consolidation in the late 19th Century shapes our ecology, economy and politics.
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Characters on the margins: An interview with Sydney Freeland
Navajo director Sydney Freeland shares the story behind a career spent celebrating the lives of outsiders and underdogs.
Posted inJune 24, 2019: Losing Lake Coeur d'Alene
The ‘shenanigans’ behind a federal employee’s decision to blow the whistle
Pressured by higher-ups, a Fish and Wildlife field supervisor smoothed the way for a 28,000-home development along a fragile Arizona river.
Posted inJune 10, 2019: 'None of this happened the way you think it did'
The key to endangered species recovery? Communication.
A retired federal biologist says Trump’s Interior Department is more business as usual than critics claim.
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America forgot the Chinese workers who built the railroad
Historian Gordon Chang’s new book attempts to correct that erasure.
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Watchdogs hit a wall in accessing once-available immigration data
A Q&A on how the Justice Department is limiting access to crucial information on migrants.
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Portraits of resilience
Through tintypes, Kaska Dena photographer Kali Spitzer creates collaborative images of her community.
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Dollars and sense in the West’s power market
An outgoing utilities commissioner discusses Montana’s changing energy landscape.
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New rules limiting clean water protections ignore stream science
What happens to part of a river network affects all of it.
Posted inDecember 24, 2018: Good news, bad news
Indigenous comics push back against hackneyed stereotypes
The ‘noble savage’ in comics is dead. Long live the Dakwäkãda Warriors.
Posted inDecember 10, 2018: Critical Mass
Rep. Raúl Grijalva intends to force a reckoning with climate change
A Democratic spitfire takes the helm of the House Committee on Natural Resources.
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Ask a Scientist: How to make talking about science personal
Jonathan ‘Peck’ Overpeck studies climate change — and tweets about it, too.
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Why the National Park advisory board imploded
An interview with board chairman Tony Knowles.
Posted inNovember 13, 2017: Solace and Perspective
Exploring rural California’s contradictions
Gabriel Tallent’s debut novel tells the story of a tough teenage girl’s survival.
Posted inNovember 13, 2017: Solace and Perspective
The West, when women are telling the story
Do women write differently about wilderness?