The Magazine

Timber companies are eager to log the West’s still-smoldering forests.

The uncontrolled growth of Western states makes planning essential.

The deaths of two hikers in Utah raise legal and ethical questions about risk and responsibility.

Newly elected Santa Fe Mayor Debbie Jaramillo promises progressive, populist changes.

Conservationists discover state lands and bid against ranchers to lease them.

Montana Human Rights Network and attorney general’s office fight against increasing influence and influx of radical right hate groups.

While experts disagree and timber industry pooh-poohs, spotted owl may lose its long fight for survival.

Kennecott Copper wants to clean up Bingham Canyon copper mine on its own, while Environmental Protection Agency wants to make it a Superfund site.

Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt discusses at the first-ever BLM summit plans to revolutionize the BLM.

Gila Watch’s Susan Schock leads fight against Diamond Bar grazing allotment.

A court ruling calls for major reevaluation of Columbia and Snake river dams.

Grand Canyon Trust uses non-confrontational style to help shape future of the Southwest’s Colorado Plateau.

United States, Mexico and Tohono O’odham Indians work to preserve the Sonoran Desert.

New landfill regulations force counties to be more creative with their trash.

Yuma Desalting Plant is boondoggle of the decade.

New Fish and Wildlife Service Directory Mollie Beattie wants to restore agency’s integrity and purpose.

Bruce Babbitt endorses a consensus grazing reform proposal developed in Colorado.

Seven stories about controversial management in the nation’s premier national park.

A profile of Jack Ward Thomas, new chief of the Forest Service.

Butte wants to transform its Superfund mine cleanup into a tourist attraction.