Asian tourists look for space, spectacles and a decent bowl of noodles.
People & Places
Posted inApril 10, 2015: Strangers in a Strange Land
On the road with America’s sightseers
A photographer looks at three decades of tourism.
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Ranch Diaries: Tiny living, 23 miles from town
After a chicken coop, a tipi and no electricity, this four-season camper is our most modern home yet.
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Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid announces retirement
The Nevada senator is a formidable leader and champion of progressive issues.
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Unwanted California tires end up in rivers and beaches
But efforts to use the trash as building materials in Mexico offer new hope.
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Senior editor Jonathan Thompson talks lessons from Farmington’s bust with KDNK
The energy extraction-dependent New Mexico town has ridden out a couple ups and downs.
Posted inMarch 16, 2015: Wild Ride
A giant resort overshadows a tiny Colorado town
A teacher’s perspective of big changes to a small town.
Posted inMarch 16, 2015: Wild Ride
The quietest and noisiest spots in the West
Some places are 20 decibels or less, similar to levels in pre-Colonial times.
Posted inMarch 16, 2015: Wild Ride
The woman who brings drinking water to remote Navajo homes
In the parched countryside, delivery means community.
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American boondockers
Surprising photographs of people who live in their vehicles, from the Cascades to the Rockies.
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Marie’s dictionary
The last fluent speaker of Wukchumni creates a dictionary to document her tribe’s language.
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Jim Deacon, pioneering desert fish biologist, dies
But the concept of saving big places through little animals lives on.
Posted inMarch 2, 2015: Unite and Conquer
Balancing the pulls of domesticity and wilderness
How I take inspiration, and cautionary advice, from Ed Abbey’s family misadventures.
Posted inMarch 2, 2015: Unite and Conquer
Most native tongues of the West are all but lost
A map shows where just over 60 languages remain spoken around the region.
Posted inMarch 2, 2015: Unite and Conquer
The water czar who reshaped Colorado River politics
Las Vegas’ Pat Mulroy initiated an era of deal-making that may buffer against catastrophic drought.
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Ranch Diaries: Why we manage our cattle horseback
Rough terrain and big country make horses an ideal way to manage for gentle cattle.
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Ranch Diaries: A New Mexico cattle company is born
How we decided to start our own business on the Mescalero Apache Reservation.
Posted inFebruary 16, 2015: Chainsaw Diplomacy
Wilderness as therapist
A growing number of veterans and researchers are racing to understand nature’s power to heal.
Posted inFebruary 16, 2015: Chainsaw Diplomacy
My kind of town: Livingston, Montana
An essay on returning home to the West, after years abroad.
Posted inFebruary 16, 2015: Chainsaw Diplomacy
Statistical realism
David Hughes crunches unpopular numbers for the shale oil boom.