Managing Editor Brian Calvert steps into a new role.
People & Places
Posted inMarch 20, 2017: The Tree Ring
Untethered existences; Tacos in traffic; movin’ on up in Seattle
Mishaps and mayhem from around the region.
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Don’t squander your daylight savings
A writer takes a stand against daylight saving time and argues you should, too.
Posted inMarch 6, 2017: Uncomfortable Corners
An expedition through the Edgelands
This landscape isn’t always beautiful — but that’s what makes it loveable.
Posted inMarch 6, 2017: Uncomfortable Corners
Cowboys with surfboards
How Hanalei, Hawaii, reflects small Western towns.
Posted inMarch 6, 2017: Uncomfortable Corners
Go North, young woman
In a place no one can see you, you can see yourself more clearly.
Posted inMarch 6, 2017: Uncomfortable Corners
Growing up in timber country
A writer returns to the old-growth forest of her youth.
Posted inMarch 6, 2017: Uncomfortable Corners
The Yaak Valley’s ‘Dirty Shame’
In the infamous Montana saloon, a lesson about home in harsh places.
Posted inMarch 6, 2017: Uncomfortable Corners
Together we pause
Sometimes we need to stop — to think about the ways we wreak havoc in the world.
Posted inMarch 6, 2017: Uncomfortable Corners
Wait — this land is my land?
A Southerner revels in the access of Western federal lands.
Posted inMarch 6, 2017: Uncomfortable Corners
Your uncomfortable Western corners
Readers respond with unique encounters and uneasy revelations in the region.
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Planes, pits & snowmobiles: how scientists get good data
A day in the field as researchers wring water data from Colorado’s snowpack.
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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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When crossing the border is your daily commute
A day in the life of agricultural laborers whose work and lives straddle the Arizona-Mexican border.
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An ethicist’s guide to hunting
In an interview, writer and hunter David Petersen says the practice makes us human.
Posted inFebruary 20, 2017: Overdosed
How a Chicano band blends urban and wild life
Quetzal finds a sense of place in East Los Angeles.
Posted inFebruary 20, 2017: Overdosed
When private pain becomes a community problem
How a rural clinic sparked a small-town addiction crisis.
Posted inFebruary 20, 2017: Overdosed
The watcher and the watched
Observation transforms our bodies and minds.
Posted inFebruary 20, 2017: Overdosed
Wind swept; Pet lives matter; Moose, over produce
Mishaps and mayhem from around the region.