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Posted inOctober 3, 2016: Purple Rain
Groundwater without borders, detention for profit and a new generation of farms
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Posted inOctober 3, 2016: Purple Rain
Winners of the 2016 HCN reader photography contest
Audience and editor favorites from our national parks.
Posted inSeptember 19, 2016: Frontera Incognita
Disappearing pika and coal’s latest hurdle
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Posted inAugust 22, 2016: 100
Delta flood’s carbon footprint, floodplain fallout and purple fungi fighters
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Posted inAugust 8, 2016: Line of Descent
Bears Ears hubbub, GOP platform pushes state control and #BlackLivesMatter
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Posted inJuly 25, 2016: Salmon Power
FBI nabs BLM bombing suspect; Wyoming wind resistance; unofficial border patrol
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Posted inJune 27, 2016: The New Advocates
Exploding oil train, heroin highways and the EPA’s civil rights record
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Posted inJune 13, 2016: Water to Dust
Horse catheters in classrooms, a crackdown on toxics, and an update on the Animas River
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Posted inMay 30, 2016: Trial by Fire
Bears Ears, Lead’s big unknown, Hike like a girl
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Posted inMay 16, 2016: Grizzly Face-Off
Opiates on the rise; Northwest tribal members fight disenrollment; ‘Best idea?’
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Posted inMay 2, 2016: The Gold King Reckoning
White-nose comes West, readers respond to Grand Canyon harassment, and the election out West
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Posted inApril 4, 2016: A Land Divided
Crime’s punishment out West and BLM patrol cuts
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KDNK Radio and HCN editor Jodi Peterson talk sage grouse
The greater sage grouse is at the center of the biggest experiment in the history of the Endangered Species Act.
Posted inOctober 13, 2014: Charles Bowden's Fury
“If there’s squash bugs in heaven, I ain’t staying” by Stacia Spragg-Braude
If there’s squash bugs in heaven, I ain’t staying Stacia Spragg-Braude, 200 pages, hardcover: $29.95 Museum of New Mexico Press, 2013 Nestled amid the orchards of New Mexico’s Rio Grande Valley is the old farming village of Corrales, where 85-year-old Evelyn Losack harvests fruit on land that has been in her family for 150 years. […]
Posted inOctober 14, 2013: The New Geronimo?
A review of Painters and the American West, Vol. 2
Painters and the American West, Vol. IIJoan Carpenter Troccoli, et al.,344 pages, cloth: $80. University of Oklahoma Press, 2013. In Painters and the American West, Vol. 2, retired art scholar and museum director Joan Carpenter Troccoli writes about the lives and times of the artists whose works fill the American Museum of Western Art in […]
Posted inSeptember 2, 2013: Of Sparrows and Sodbusters
A President in Yellowstone
A President in Yellowstone: The F. Jay Haynes Photographic Album of Chester Arthur’s 1883 Expedition, Frank H. Goodyear III, 192 pages, hardcover: $36.95. University of Oklahoma Press, 2013. No sitting president had traveled so far west before President Chester A. Arthur joined an expedition to Yellowstone National Park in 1883. Frank Jay Haynes, a young […]
Posted inAugust 19, 2013: Dinosaur Wars
A review of Landscape Dreams, A New Mexico portrait
Landscape Dreams, A New Mexico portrait photographs by Craig Varjabedian, essays by Marin Sardy, Jeanetta Calhoun Mish and Hampton Sides, 140 pages, hardcover: $50, University of New Mexico Press, 2012. Contemporary landscape photography often looks too pristine and over-saturated to feel authentic. But Craig Varjabedian’s monochromatic images of New Mexico transcend that. In place of […]
Posted inAugust 5, 2013: Mojave Squeeze
A review of Animal Crackers
Animal Crackers The Brothers Kraynak 48 pages, softcover: $19.95. The Brothers Kraynak, 2013. animalcrackersbook.wix.com/animal-crackers With its colorful illustrations and hand-lettered look, Animal Crackers resembles a children’s book — until you look more closely and realize it’s far from a soothing bedtime read. The Brothers Kraynak, Scott, a visual artist and park ranger, and his brother, […]
