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Features
To understand the state’s urban-rural divide, start by looking at Yamhill County’s proposed walking trail.
Conflicting visions in central Idaho force tough decisions over logging and prescribed burning.
An ecologist and a photographer teamed to document and build a living archive of the Borderlands’ biodiversity — before it’s too late.
Activists and agencies try to balance the West’s horse mythology against herd impacts.
At Washington’s Hanford nuclear site, failing infrastructure and make-do plans as the West prepares for a new round of radioactivity.
A new generation of environmentalists is learning to stop worrying and love atomic power.
Fish-stocking has drawn otters to the Beartooth Plateau of Montana. What effect do they have in their new environs?
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.
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