A review of Kent Haruf’s new book, ‘Our Souls at Night.’
People & Places
Posted inNovember 23, 2015: Water Hustle
On the unease of violent people
Review of T.C. Boyle’s ‘The Harder They Come.”
Posted inNovember 23, 2015: Water Hustle
How a plan to save southeastern Colorado went off the rails
Heritage tourism offered a way out of economic doldrums. Why did it go wrong?
Posted inNovember 23, 2015: Water Hustle
The life of a once-lost dog
Aging takes its toll on creatures both human and canine.
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Colorado, other Western states support Syrian refugee program
Governors choose sides on Obama’s Syrian resettlement program.
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Ranch Diaries: What life’s like as a female rancher
Some ranchers still say women ruin horses and a rancher and his wife can be paid at two-for-the-price-of-one.
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Photos: Tracing poverty in the West
Over 11.5 million people live in poverty in Western states; here are intimate portraits of their communities.
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In Wyoming, the future of Native health depends on kids
Infant mortality among Wyoming’s Native population is more than double that of the state’s white population.
Posted inNovember 9, 2015: The Campaign Against Coal
An ode to germs, guts and gardens
When calamity strikes, a gardener finds her way back to the basics.
Posted inNovember 9, 2015: The Campaign Against Coal
‘Legal monkey-wrenching’ on Western trails
One man’s guerrilla trail work aims to improve public access to public land.
Posted inNovember 9, 2015: The Campaign Against Coal
The beaver whisperer
A biologist figures out how to keep beavers alive on Western landscapes.
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Contaminated soil lingers where apples once grew in Washington
Soil at hundreds of properties contains lead and arsenic that can lower children’s IQs and increase cancer risk.
Posted inOctober 26, 2015: Clean Energy's Dirty Secret
A marriage of unequals
A review of ‘Leaving Before the Rains Come,’ Alexandra Fuller’s account of her unsteady arc from Zimbabwe to Wyoming
Posted inOctober 26, 2015: Clean Energy's Dirty Secret
Photographing Wyoming Prairies
A review of ‘Wyoming Grasslands.’
Posted inOctober 26, 2015: Clean Energy's Dirty Secret
Where nuns are ranch hands
Colorado’s Abbey of St. Walburga is a spiritual refuge — and a working ranch.
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Why are the feds sticking with a racist name for a Washington lake?
Update from HCN staff, Oct. 23, 2015: Two days after this piece was published, the National Park Service reversed its decision and recommended that the U.S. Board of Geographic Names change the name of Coon Lake to Howard Lake, Glenn Nelson reports. “We recognize that our previous decision on this issue overlooked relevant information, and […]
Posted inOctober 12, 2015: The Rise of Lisa Murkowski
How 2013’s Front Range floods changed the face of the region
Two years after floodwaters swept through, many immigrant families are still struggling to rebuild.
Posted inOctober 12, 2015: The Rise of Lisa Murkowski
How to survive the bust
As oil prices plummet, a drill rig worker traces the effects among his brethren.
Posted inOctober 12, 2015: The Rise of Lisa Murkowski
The self in perpetual motion
A review of “Spirit Bird: Stories” by Kent Nelson.
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Fresno, California, aims to recharge its dwindling groundwater
Surface water projects give groundwater a break, in the state’s fourth year of severe drought.