The Magazine

For years, Native Americans, fishermen and farmers have
battled over the Klamath River in southern Oregon and Northern
California, but finally a complicated truce is in the
works.

Jeffrey Lockwood believes that the modern West could use
an infusion of old-fashioned Cowboy Mythology.

The women in Stefanie Raymond-Whish’s family have a
history of breast cancer, and the young Navajo biologist wants to
know whether the uranium on the reservation might have something to
do with it.

An energy boom of unprecedented proportions is
transforming western Colorado towns like Rifle, which just recently
recovered from the last big energy boom – and a catastrophic
bust.

Craig Childs explores the fine line that separates
archeology from grave-robbing in the American Southwest.

After conquering rocks, trails and mountains, weekend
warriors have found a new hobby: Climbing the West’s big
trees.

Ray Ring takes a personal, painful look at the
West’s suicidal tendencies, as shown in the life and death of
his brother, John.

The Navajo Nation is determined to finally claim its
rightful share of the Colorado River after 86 years of being left
out of the region’s water politics.

California’s Salton Sea is at a crossroads, but
whether it dries up and blows away or is restored and rejuvenated,
the future does not look bright for its resident renegades,
retirees and recluses.

A copper-mining company is courting Superior, Ariz., but
the former mining town – now re-inventing itself as a modest
tourist haven – is unsure whether it really wants a new
marriage with extractive industry

Public-land managers in the era of global warming face
uncomfortable choices: Do they intervene to protect dying plants
and animals, or stand back and let this new version of
“nature” take its course?