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Rent hikes, homelessness and hunger in a small Western city
A writer in Ashland, Oregon, sees the problems that follow an influx of wealth.
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High schoolers forced Utah to admit climate change is real
A group of students convinced state lawmakers to acknowledge the warming planet.
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Tribes lead the battle to combat a national opioid crisis
Native communities have been flooded with prescription pain pills.
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Can Montana Sen. Jon Tester survive Trump’s attacks?
Dust-ups with the president test an increasingly red state’s middle-ground politician.
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Don’t even think about leaving a trace
An outdoorswoman reflects on the myriad kinds of litter she’s encountered in nature.
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Trump’s false narrative of chaos at the border
As asylum-seekers flee to the U.S., misguided immigration policies proliferate.
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The Forest Service faces a century-old call for equality
As early as 1924, women were asking the agency for equal treatment.
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The long road from violence
A writer reexamines the stories we tell of rural life and struggle.
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How the feds helped make Cliven Bundy a celebrity
The creation of an anti-public-lands hero.
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This acequia life
The irrigation of the land defines our West in ways I can hardly explain.
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What happens in a small town when the gas goes out?
A writer ponders his community’s dependence on natural gas in its absence.
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Should scientists speak up for climate action?
How to balance professional objectivity and the existential threat of climate change.
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In Colorado’s conservative corners, a push for gun control
Grand Junction teens broach a tense topic with community members.
Posted inMay 28, 2018: The River of Lost Souls
Black women rewrite weed’s legacy in Los Angeles
Entrepreneurs find opportunity and community in what was once illegal.
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All (climate) politics is local
During a dry spring, Democratic Sen. Michael Bennet visits rural Colorado to talk economics and agriculture.
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America is overlooking its biggest gun problem
Mass shootings capture our attention, but suicide is responsible for more deaths.
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African cats find a home in the Nevada desert
At the Lion Habitat Ranch, Las Vegas’ famous show felines live out their twilight years.
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Frackin’ on heaven’s door
How many people over the centuries have loved the Pawnee Buttes, only to see them ravaged?
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What we have forgotten about the vilified gray wolf
The saga of O-Six lays bare the intricacies of a familiar, parallel society in wolves.