The American Prairie Reserve offers a controversial vision for an intact prairie ecosystem.
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Posted inMay 15, 2017: Prison Town
A tribe wins rights to contested groundwater in court
A major federal court decision acknowledges that tribes have priority rights to groundwater — and could limit how much other users can take.
Posted inApril 3, 2017: Firestorm
Inside the firestorm
New technology allows scientists to see the forces behind the flames.
Posted inMarch 20, 2017: The Tree Ring
Scott Pruitt isn’t the first administrator hostile to the EPA’s mission
How Reagan’s EPA chief left a roadmap for taking down the agency.
Posted inMarch 20, 2017: The Tree Ring
A tale of two Roosevelts
Two books examine how both Theodore and Franklin D. Roosevelt helped build an American conservation ethos.
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A way of unforgetting
Author Lauret Savoy on tracing personal and national history through landscapes.
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Jordan Downs’ toxic legacy
A public housing project in Los Angeles seeks to redevelop without a proper cleanup.
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An island from the past
Teow Lim Goh’s poetry revisits a dark place in the West’s immigration history.
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Happy birthday, Wallace Stegner
Reflections on a seminal Western author, years after his death.
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Why keep the Salton Sea?
A history of the manmade — and now essential — inland ocean.
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Gilded pain in the heart of New Mexico
A new collection of short stories offers a portrait of people on the fringes.
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In the final days, our POC-in-chief delivers
Obama’s monument designations set a blueprint for diversity and inclusion in federal public lands.
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How to name a rose
A recent book provides a road map to finding literature in nature.
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Why a scientist cut down ‘the oldest living tree’
The Prometheus Tree in Nevada was nearly 5,000 years old when it was cut down. It could have lived a lot longer.
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Interior cancels oil and gas leases in Montana’s Badger-Two Medicine
The Blackfeet Tribe fought for this decision for more than 30 years.
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Seeking ancient lives in harsh lands
A review of “The Lost World of the Old Ones,” a voyage through Southwestern archaeology.
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Who was ‘the last wild Indian’?
Reflecting on the life of an iconic Native American who never revealed his true name.
Posted inDecember 26, 2016: Obama and the West
How Obama began to mend broken tribal relations
Native American leaders say Obama’s legacy is this: He listened.
Posted inDecember 26, 2016: Obama and the West
Obama’s lasting legacies in the West
Under the 44th president, the West re-examined its relationship to energy and the climate.
Posted inDecember 26, 2016: Obama and the West
Obama’s mixed impact on endangered species
The administration delisted more species, but ultimately weakened the act itself.