Craig Childs recalls the fearless conservationist who loved an undammed river.
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Posted inNovember 13, 2017: Solace and Perspective
A fictional Gilead in the Northwest
Two authors imagine societies with draconian policies against women.
Posted inNovember 13, 2017: Solace and Perspective
How to know what we don’t know about natural disasters
A new book foretells America’s next devastating earthquake.
Posted inNovember 13, 2017: Solace and Perspective
The West, when women are telling the story
Do women write differently about wilderness?
Posted inNovember 13, 2017: Solace and Perspective
The Kumeyaay poet who’s disrupting nature poetry
Tommy Pico merges natural and personal history of the arid West from Brooklyn, New York.
Posted inNovember 13, 2017: Solace and Perspective
In line at the Great Wall
In no-longer-so-imaginary future, parents and children are separated at the border.
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Memories of the ‘goddess of Glen Canyon’
Our readers share their thoughts and encounters of Western icon, Katie Lee.
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Share your memories of the iconic Katie Lee
The Western author and activist died this week. Tell us what she meant to you.
Posted inDecember 25, 2017: Bear Essentials
What could be lost in a push for mining in monuments
In Grand Staircase-Escalante, coal and fossils lie side by side.
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Raton tries to rise again
A former coal mining town takes measured approach to economic recovery.
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A vision for the Navajo Nation in one farm’s sustainability
Local businesses keep jobs and money circulating within their communities.
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Navajo small businesses help stabilize booms and busts
To build a sustained community, the Navajo Nation experiments with entrepreneurs.
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The Park Service needs to do more to connect
The agency has worked so hard to attract white, outdoorsy men that it has trouble going further.
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Dear progressives, don’t give up on the small-town West
Political advice from a Democrat who ran and lost his own campaign for mayor.
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From ‘hallway’ to artery, a town rebuilds Main Street
Booms and busts withered Farmington, New Mexico, but new initiatives could revitalize it.
Posted inOctober 30, 2017: The Changing Face of Woods Work
The changing politics of woods work
Cash-strapped agencies use private contractors to the detriment of local communities.
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When federal health care falls short, tribes improvise
A growing number of tribes manage their own clinics and behavioral programs.
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A water-bottling plant creates a rift in Montana
Opponents say a proposal is tilting Flathead Valley development toward corporate interests.
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Can Utah’s centrists provide refuge for the disillusioned?
A new party called United Utah says that it is ‘Practical Not Partisan.’
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In New Mexico, demographic shifts have helped job growth
An influx of immigrants is preventing economic stagnation in the Borderlands.