The Magazine

An obscure legal ruling muddied U.S. water-protection standards, leaving Western intermittent streams and rivers unprotected.

Blood quantum – the complicated system that determines membership in most American Indian tribes – could threaten the future survival of those tribes.

High Country News examines the Bush administration’s effects on the Western
environment and considers what can be done to heal the damage.

When Julene Bair sold the family farm, she severed her lifelong connections with a sense of place and her own childhood.

Southern California wants to use desalination to increase its water supply, but critics think the idea should be taken with a grain of salt.

Ranchers and environmentalists in Wyoming are still squabbling over wolves as the animal bounces on and off the endangered species list.

Type: The Mormon Church works to ban gay marriage in California, even as gay people in places like Rexburg, Idaho, come out of the LDS closet.

A long time ago, the earth warmed considerably; now, scientists study fossils to find out what happened – and what it might mean for us today.

Jared Farmer speaks in praise of Utah’s neglected “low country” landscapes – places like Utah Lake.

In the quest for the ultimate firefighting machine, the BLM in Nevada has turned to some very big, very strange, and very foreign vehicles: Unimogs from Germany and Tatras from the Czech Republic.

Steve and Marc Jenson have ambitious plans to turn a failed ski resort near Beaver, Utah, into a private enclave for the ultra-rich, but not everyone is thrilled about the idea.

Barred owls are driving threatened spotted owls out of their Northwest forest territory. Is it time to shoot them?

The Grand Old Party will either find a new life – or court self-destruction – in the West today, where moderates and hard-liners are battling over conservation issues.