In Colorado’s San Juan Mountains, Tom Painter and
other scientists study the dust in the snow and ponder its
implications for future drought and weather conditions, especially
in the era of global warming
Colorado

How a transgender-owned alpaca ranch in Colorado foretells the future of the rural queer West.

What the D.C. insurgency meant for our regional conscience.

Remote workers are flocking to Western towns.
Outgoing Interior Secretary Gale Norton has opened the
door for counties and states to claim control of roads crossing
federal lands
Realtors seem to be everywhere in the West today –
including community politics
Artist Joan Hoffman pours her love of wilderness into her
paintings, and uses her art as a way to fight for the
environment
White Pine County, Nev., seeks federal help to fight Las
Vegas groundwater grab; fired workers suddenly regain jobs at
National Renewable Energy Laboratory; marijuana is
Washington’s No. 8 agricultural product
Sex-change doctor dies; rainy wit from Oregon; "Meth Made
Easy" makes newspaper’s life hard; world’s biggest
solar project slated for Nevada; GPS locates bank robbers
With the elk population at Colorado’s Rocky Mountain
National Park out of control, wildlife managers are considering
bringing in four wolves to restore the balance
The Lost People of Mountain Village; big-game
tax-deduction scam; pigs and developers; coping with the medfly;
grizzlies vs. highways in Canada
As energy companies go after "unconventional" natural gas
– such as tight-sands gas and coalbed methane –the
environmental impacts are becoming increasingly apparent
Oscar Goodman sounds off; Tom Chapman vs. the Yankee Girl;
LeRoy Becker loved Montana; Andrew Bisharat vs. baby boomers; cats
vs. electricity; miners vs. bloomers in the Old West
Laura Pritchett’s first novel, Sky Bridge, perfectly
captures the speech and rhythms of everyday life in the
hardscrabble ranchland of the eastern Colorado plains
The La Plata County commissioners have signed two deals
allowing energy companies to double the density of coalbed methane
wells near Durango, Colo.
Longer commuter rails could connect the West’s
far-flung cities in ways they haven’t been connected since
the glory days of the railroad
Whistleblower Earle Dixon’s complaint denied;
Colorado moose has chronic wasting disease; Colorado wind power
gets cheaper than traditional electricity; court nixes
BuRec’s 10-year Klamath River plan
Border collie looking for work in Boise; washing machine
museum in Colorado; "parasite lost" in Wyoming; big house vs.
bigger house in Utah; cyclists vs. goathead thorns in Sacramento;
nude cycling in North Portland
Energy companies are planning to drill on open space in
Boulder County, Colo.
Susan Ryan, a young archaeologist, has some unusual ideas
about why the Anasazi left their homes in the Southwest, 700 years
ago
A Colorado judge cancels the water right of a private
company that had planned to build the state’s largest dam and
use it to pipe water from the Western Slope to the cities of Denver
and Colorado Springs
In the little town of Antonito, Colo., a local eccentric
known as Cano is using salvaged materials like beer cans, hubcaps
and scrap lumber to create an extraordinary shrine called "El
Castillo."
The Gladstone Kibosh, EnvironGentle’s ungentle
T-shirts; bicyclists meet baby horse; dog-of-honor at the wedding;
Judge Royce Lamberth vs. the Interior Department’s
incompetence; "Nothing" becomes something in Telluride
- Meet the gun-toting ‘Tenacious Unicorns’ in rural Colorado
- Diverted, drained and dwindling: What’s the fate of New Mexico’s Rio Grande?
- The Washington, D.C., siege has Western roots and consequences
- The Pyramid Lake Paiute Tribe reintroduces bighorn sheep on tribal lands
- Pro-Trump riots won’t stop the winds of political change blowing in the West
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