Fish-stocking has drawn otters to the Beartooth Plateau of Montana. What effect do they have in their new environs?
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Federal recognition provides tribes with critical healthcare and education. What happens to the tribal nations that the U.S. refuses to recognize?
How homelessness is criminalized in small cities and towns across the West.
Diné activist Nicole Horseherder’s long quest for equity from the rise and fall of the coal economy.
How far will you go for the person you love?
Author Amy Irvine’s answer to the classic ‘Desert Solitaire’ on its 50th anniversary.
San Juan County’s Navajo population has lived for decades with a minority white government. This election could change that.
An explosion in suburban Colorado raises questions on safety and accountability.
Imperial Beach considers the unthinkable: a retreat from nature.
Imperial Beach considera lo impensable: emprender retirada a causa de la naturaleza.
Amid a desolate mess in Cisco, Utah, a young woman resurrects a home.
Sheep grazing in the state’s largest wilderness area could endanger a dwindling bighorn sheep herd.
What happens to a community when its sense of belonging begins to unravel?
‘The reality is that the machinery of growers is taken better care of than the lives of farmworkers.’
Drought, dread and family in the American Southwest.
For the first time, the largest tribe in California has one of its own to lead its legal battles.
A 2015 spill that turned the waterway orange is a reminder of mining’s disastrous legacy.
Social media is changing our relationship to risk, with deadly consequences.
A reporter staked a mining claim on former monument lands. You could, too.
The creation of an anti-public-lands hero.
How Veterans Stand squandered $1.4 million raised around the #NoDAPL protests.
Arctic people have been speaking with cetaceans for centuries — and scientists are finally taking note.
The Borderlands thrive on connections. What would it mean to sever them?
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