Vertical farming rises to meet growing demand for local, organic food.
Growth & Sustainability
Posted inDecember 12, 2016: How the Park Service is Failing Women
Death by hot-potting; turkey intimidation; hunting poachers
Mishaps and mayhem from around the region.
Posted inDecember 12, 2016: How the Park Service is Failing Women
Plans falter for West Coast coal terminals
Coal companies look to Asia, but face port challenges.
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How to fix exclusive resort towns
It’s time to rethink urbanization in mountain communities.
Posted inNovember 28, 2016: A Weird and Perfect Wilderness
Alaska’s gas pipeline dreams
A decades-long plan to deliver the state’s gas reserves to the market remains in purgatory.
Posted inNovember 28, 2016: A Weird and Perfect Wilderness
Could land speed racing fade from Bonneville Salt Flats?
Utah’s changing landscape casts doubt on the future of a sport.
Posted inNovember 28, 2016: A Weird and Perfect Wilderness
Trump’s promises are empty when it comes to energy
Will laid-off energy workers get their jobs back? No. Regulations have nothing to do with this bust.
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Two lesser-known reasons to celebrate our public lands
It may be the Park Service’s 100th year, but these policies have done a lot for open space.
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Clearcutting the Tongass National Forest is dead wrong
To avert the worst climate change impacts, old forests and their massive carbon reserves must be protected.
Posted inNovember 14, 2016: The Long View
15 books every well-versed Westerner should read
A reading list for understanding the region.
Posted inNovember 14, 2016: The Long View
Insights from a climate oasis
Author Kathleen Alcalá on learning to become an activist.
Posted inNovember 14, 2016: The Long View
Revisiting Idaho’s lead-poisoning legacy
A new book documents a catastrophe in Silver Valley.
Posted inNovember 14, 2016: The Long View
Science fiction’s warnings for the present
Kim Stanley Robinson on climate change and the precarious health of the planet.
Posted inNovember 14, 2016: The Long View
Terry Tempest Williams and the refuge of change
One of the West’s most beloved authors revisits Great Salt Lake.
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Will a dam save the pallid sturgeon, or doom it?
On the Yellowstone River, farmers and conservationists clash over controversial infrastructure.
Posted inOctober 31, 2016: A Monumental Divide
An end to old-growth logging in Alaska’s Tongass?
Does a Forest Service plan to end clear-cuts of old stands go far enough?
Posted inOctober 31, 2016: A Monumental Divide
The fading grandeur of the Glen Canyon Dam
Silt and erosion threaten to clog up the enduring structure.
Posted inOctober 31, 2016: A Monumental Divide
How can we protect our National Parks? Here’s an idea.
Maintenance issues abound, a new Civilian Conservation Corps could lend a hand.
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‘These big dreams to have everyone prosper’
A conversation with Renae Yellowhorse about the proposal to build a tram to the Colorado River.
Posted inDecember 26, 2016: Obama and the West
Will a twice-burned county change its ways?
Don’t count on wildfires to alter how counties plan development in fire-prone zones.