Equitable wildfire preparedness requires community-level fixes.
People & Places
The professor and leader leaves a legacy in Indigenous advocacy.
Labor advocates rallied in Seattle to demand a union contract from Windmill farms amid allegations of poor treatment and retaliation.
Viral attention on Black Rock City’s annual festival highlight environmental consequences.
The Environmental Justice for All Act could give communities more agency to stop mega warehouse projects.
With the state planning to spend $24 million on relocation, residents of Camp Hope aspire to self determination and continued community.
How a group of ‘scrappy’ locals are working to create Arizona’s first citizen-initiated groundwater management area.
I drifted around the rural West and country for decades. Until I reached a small corner of Colorado.
The Nenana Totchaket Agricultural Project aims to fight food insecurity in the state but could interfere with local trappers’ ability to gather food.
Researchers look to give small tourism communities the tools for a GNARly approach.
Willamette Falls used to be a public place of laughter and sharing. It could be again, if painful politics don’t eclipse revitalization efforts.
As the Cherokee Nation’s first female chief’s image is minted onto a coin, her full humanity should be examined.
How last year’s record-breaking heat wave caused misery and chaos for Washington’s incarcerated population — and why it’s set to happen all over again.
An Inupiaq writer remembers her family roots through a favorite dish.
Alisha Murphy discusses her vision of a robust tribal economy and the importance of community input.
The land does not care what parts of you are male or female.
Colorado’s most destructive fire leaves behind grief and slow recoveries.
Western landscapes and their names are stratified with personal memories, ancestral teachings, mythic events and colonial disturbances.
After Miguel Ordeñana discovered mountain lion P-22 in urban LA, he became a key advocate for habitat connectivity, which is essential for the species’ survival in Southern California.
A new analysis suggests that over half of communities in the West lack the capacity to take advantage of infrastructure bill funding. Now what?
A walk through the Quinault rainforest leads to a cascade of questions.
Southern California residents wrestle with events unfolding back home in the Russia-Ukraine war.
Aimee Towi Mae Tang’s Chinese American family never talked about the past. She decided to change that.
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