The Magazine

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.

Logging, hydropower and fishing contribute to the decline of salmon in Oregon waters.

Controversy mounts over the construction of a road through Petroglyph National Monument near Albuquerque.

A community mobilizes to regain a lost Mexican land grant.

Gold miner John Livermore and Sierra Club mining expert Glenn Miller join forces to find a solution to Nevada’s mining troubles.

Locals balk at EPA’s plan to declare Triumph, Idaho, a Superfund site due to mining waste.

Bald eagles are making a comeback after near extinction due to the pesticide DDT.

Forest Service practices permit logging fraud by the Columbia River Scaling and Grading Bureau.

Groundwater pumping dries Milt Thompson’s Diamond Valley Ranch.

Governors of eight Western states begin work on a strategy to protect the region’s world-class air before it’s too late.

Oregon’s Trojan nuclear power plant closes permanently after charges of safety violations.

The issue of whether or not barging salmon around dams is effective is taken to court.

A proposed golf course in Santa Fe is another milestone in the area’s cultural transformation.

A history of Denver’s economic development and rise to prominence as a Western city.

Environmentalists’ euphoria over President Bill Clinton’s Western policies came to an abrupt end in late March, when the White House pulled public land reforms from its new budget.

Aspen, Colo. grapples with the angst of being a rich resort town, a mill closure shakes Kremmling, Colo., Livingston, Mont. is caught off-guard by its popularity, and the West is transformed byte by byte.