This is not only a climate emergency. It is a cultural one.
People & Places
Posted inOctober 2025: Limits to Growth
Watching the Oregon ash vanish
The emerald ash borer is killing the native tree. How do we make the most of the time while it’s still here?
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Montana’s Chinese past isn’t past
A forgotten Chinese cemetery reveals how Missoula buries its past — and why the present is so familiar.
Posted inOctober 2025: Limits to Growth
On not letting go of the past
How do we embrace the new and still hold on to the things that shaped us?
Posted inNovember 2025: Precious Metalheads
What inspires Indigenous ballet dancer Jock Soto
The dancer seeks to preserve his legacy while educating others about his time on the biggest ballet stage.
Posted inOctober 2025: Limits to Growth
‘I was lucky when I came to this country’
#iamthewest: Giving voice to the people that make up communities in the region.
Posted inDecember 2025: Wild Harvest
He makes bows — and bow makers
Joshua Hood is decolonizing traditional bow-making and archery education from his Portland backyard.
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The strange loneliness of Charlie Kirk’s funeral
Photos and reflections from the memorial in the Phoenix suburbs.
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Denver’s storied tradition of sex work, then and now
In her new book, Michelle Gurule reveals her experience as a sugar baby and just how little has changed about the industry in the last century.
Posted inSeptember 2025: Who Controls Our Food?
Felonious foxes, mischievous marmots, dog meets wolf and a chat with the tooth fairy
Mishaps and mayhem from around the region.
Posted inSeptember 2025: Who Controls Our Food?
‘How many bricks of colonization do we sit under?’
#iamthewest: Giving voice to the people that make up communities in the region.
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In rural New Mexico, kids paint a sonic portrait of their ghost town
Madrid was once a booming coal town. At radio camp, its youngest inhabitants had big questions about its past — and present.
Posted inAugust 2025: Fire Culture
A hotshot’s search for belonging among the flames
A wildland firefighter reckons with the male-dominated culture found on the fireline.
Posted inAugust 2025: Fire Culture
Chicken buckets, baked beans, liters of coke: the final meals of death row inmates
Julie Green painted the last meals served to people sentenced to die in an attempt to humanize capital punishment.
Posted inAugust 2025: Fire Culture
‘My vision was to build a healthy ecosystem for all who live in it’
#iamthewest: Giving voice to the people that make up communities in the region.
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An Oregon law tries to tackle garbage gases
Surveys of U.S. landfills showed emission rates were, on average, 40% higher than reported.
Posted inJuly 2025: Seeds as Sustenance
The seeds remember
Reclaiming Chinese culture through cultivation.
Posted inJuly 2025: Seeds as Sustenance
‘I see no reason to compromise my value system’
#iamthewest: Giving voice to the people that make up communities in the region.
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The Trump administration is asking park rangers to rewrite history
And some national park site staffers are pushing back.