The Magazine

The story of whirling disease in Western trout is a story of human “improvement on nature” gone wrong.

The increase in numbers of tourists drawn to the canyon country by guidebooks and magazines raises questions about exploiting and overusing a fragile landscape.

As HCN turns 25 years of age, HCN founder Tom Bell fights the proposed Altamont gas pipeline, which he says would harm the historic Oregon Trail at South Pass.

World War II conscientious objectors who served as smokejumpers on Western forest fires reminisce about the difficulties and dangers they faced.

The University of Arizona’s determination to build a world-class observatory on Mount Graham creates a storm of controversy involving an endangered red squirrel and an Indian tribe’s desire to protect the mountain as a sacred place.

Small businessman Tom Huerkamp fights the building of prisons in the rural West and looks for other ways to generate an economy.

Arizona’s San Pedro River – the Southwest’s last natural low-desert river – still faces a number of threats to its survival.

A reporter travels through Washington state’s 5th congressional district to try to understand the November election defeat of Democratic Speaker of the House Tom Foley after 30 years in office.

Public hearings on the rewriting of the Endangered Species Act stir up controversy among environmentalists and their opponents.

The land-grant university system has been challenged and is slowly beginning to change.

Ski resorts begin to resemble the Third World as Africans and others come to take low-paying service jobs, but have trouble finding housing.

The Great Basin has often been seen as a wasteland, but now new visions are defining the region.

New Commissioner of Reclamation Dan Beard seeks to make his agency more environmentally sensitive.

It’s not a fluke, it’s not just the drought, and it’s not careless smokers. Decades of all-out logging and all-out fire suppression torched Yellowstone in 1988, ignited the fatal Colorado fire last summer, and set the stage for the thousands of fires in between.

Overpumping has drained Idaho’s Snake River aquifer until rivers like the Big Lost run dry.

The first wolves return to Yellowstone amid much fanfare and mixed reactions.

Denver International Airport may become a giant boondoggle.

Uncontrolled growth and the relocation of Intel Corporation to Albuquerque force the city to re-elvaluate its water policy.

The National Park Service may be downsized and reorganized.

An unusual consensus may stave off industrial tourism in Washington’s Methow Valley.