The company town of Port Gamble, Wash., faces a future as
a tourist town when its only sawmill closes.
Communities
A network of mutual aid organizers provides meals and supplies for people experiencing homelessness.
Cogongrass is the latest of a fast-growing number of invasive plants threatening Idaho’s fire-prone rangelands.
Okanogan County, Washington, had hardly recovered from the last devastating wildfire when the next one struck.
State-owned lots with Native American ruins on them may be
sold to provide money for Utah schools.
An exhibit called "Inventing the Southwest: The Fred
Harvey Company and Native American Art," goes on display in
Phoenix, Ariz.
An exhibit of photographs and interviews by Kit Miller
takes an in-depth look at the people who work in Nevada's
casinos.
A profile of rancher Eugene Hussey reveals a man who has
often had trouble with authority.
Photojournalist Kit Miller explores the lives of Nevada's
casino workers in photos and interviews in an exhibit called Inside
the Glitter.
Undaunted by a third federal court ruling against the
University of Arizona's plan to build its large telescope on Mount
Graham, Arizona Rep. Jim Kolbe drafts legislation to let the
construction proceed.
At an air summit meeting in Grand Junction, Colo.,
representatives at Denver International Airport hear a litany of
complaints from Western Slope regional airport managers.
Cows poisoned; antler poaching; brucellosis logo in
Yellowstone; overheated black-footed ferrets die; beef fudge
recipe; prison near Norwood, Colo., school; salvage logging
protest; "drive-through' Ph.D.; Harry Merlo's successor; recreation
bulldozing.
Notorious pothunter Earl Shumway is convicted of looting
Anasazi burial sites in Utah.
Talk of the West's "dream towns" should focus less on
moving to one than on staying and creating a home where we already
live.
Greens spend little time in sports, Shirley MacLaine bucks
karma, Utah Rep. Jim Hansen turns chicken, Lake Powell is full of
s--, blimps over Grand Canyon, former Idaho Sen. James McClure
lobbies for ESA, SUWA accused of overreacting, Navajos' blue
jeans
The quarterly "Workbook" takes a look at Mexican and
American border communities' environmental problems after
NAFTA.
The vacancy rate in Colorado resort towns grows as more
houses are bought for seldom-used second homes.
Emery County, Utah, hires art restorers to remove graffiti
from prehistoric rock art in Buckhorn Wash.
University of Wyoming law professor Mark Squillace is
cleared of charges that his work with environmental groups misused
university facilities.
Rising fares at Denver International Airport are changing
the patterns of air travel around the West, as some airlines pull
out and passengers seek other airports.
The writer considers how hard it is to love the earth or
anything else in the abstract, as opposed to the particular and
familiar, and reminisces about getting to know a horse when he was
a child.
Rodeo safety vests, buffalo in bar, intergalactic tourism,
ladies' left-arm wrestling, Helen Chenoweth's staff problems,
computer organizing for wilderness, killer bees.
The writer ponders the kinds of communities new prisons
create, and offers suggestions to ease the impacts.
- Was Yellowstone’s deadliest wolf hunt in 100 years an inside job?
- Botanists find one of ‘the world’s worst weeds’ spreading in the Boise foothills
- Alaska’s Willow Project promises huge amounts of oil — and huge environmental impacts
- Scientists unravel the origins of the Southwest’s monsoon
- The fires below
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