Science is essential to managing wildlife populations, but there are limits to what we know.
Perspective
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The big data center buildup
An AI server farm tsunami threatens to overwhelm the West’s power grid and water supplies.
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The nation’s energy dominance falters
Trump is killing clean energy, and it’s not even helping fossil fuels.
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What we stand to lose if national monuments fall
Can one of the nation’s best conservation tools survive?
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The strange loneliness of Charlie Kirk’s funeral
Photos and reflections from the memorial in the Phoenix suburbs.
Posted inAugust 2025: Fire Culture
911’s hidden emergency
A former firefighter makes the case for community paramedicine in the age of climate change.
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A proposed Utah uranium mine gets the Trump treatment
Feds approve contested facility in just 11 days.
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‘De-extinction’ isn’t real, but the conservation questions it raises are
In the age of gene editing, what does it mean to protect a species?
Posted inMay 2025: The Art of the Cruise
The Cybertruck is all tricks and no truck, a musky Tesla fail
Tesla’s baking sheet on wheels rides fast in the recall lane toward a dead end where dysfunctional men gather.
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Can Trump bring back ‘clean, beautiful coal’?
The fossil fuel-fetish once again trumps economics and common-sense.
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Trump’s unprecedented attack on America
We need an army of Raúl Grijalvas to stem the flood of ‘bullshit’ emanating out of the White House.
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Trump and Musk take aim at the rural West
Spending cuts hurt communities, economies and public lands.
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AI on public lands and Biden’s environmental legacy
The 46th president finished his term in customary contradictory style.
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Jimmy Carter’s mixed environmental record
The former president emphasized conservation, protection — and coal mining.
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Our imperiled public lands
President-elect Trump, a Republican-dominated Congress and Utah launch an all-out assault on environmental protection.
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Beautiful Bears Ears is at risk, again
What are the consequences for the land if the incoming president shrinks the national monument?
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My family experienced Indian boarding schools – and genocide
Why Biden’s apology didn’t go far enough.
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Montana’s Jon Tester might lose. Here’s why that matters
What the Senate contest says about the unexpected shift in Western politics.
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Welcome to Daylight Nonsense Time
When the Yukon tinkered with the time change, it stretched the Mountain Time Zone to its breaking point.
Posted inOctober 2024: Latino Vote
How do you describe a sacred site without describing it?
Western journalism puts Indigenous reporters in a tricky position where values don’t always align.