Tribal issues cut across party lines.
Public lands
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A way of unforgetting
Author Lauret Savoy on tracing personal and national history through landscapes.
Posted inMarch 20, 2017: The Tree Ring
Latest: Family ordered to pay up for unauthorized grazing
The Hages owe more than a half-million dollars.
Posted inMarch 6, 2017: Uncomfortable Corners
Wait — this land is my land?
A Southerner revels in the access of Western federal lands.
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Across party lines, Western governors see a partner in Pruitt
A bipartisan group couldn’t get what they wanted from the old EPA.
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Western cities try to cut light pollution
Hitting the dimmer switch on city light helps animals and skygazers, too.
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The many questions of Gold Butte
Familiar questions around roads, heritage and water rights resurface as Nevadans make sense of their new monument.
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Inside the fight to undo BLM’s planning overhaul
In latest skirmish of land wars, Congress supports mining and ranching.
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Sportsmen take aim at law enforcement bill
They see HR 622 as a complex and serious threat to public lands.
Posted inFebruary 20, 2017: Overdosed
The winding beauty of Southwest deserts
A collection of photographs capture nature’s rhythms.
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When the power of protest works
Organized dissent helped kill Rep. Chaffetz’s public-lands transfer bill.
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Lessons from the first week of the Bundy standoff trial
Checking in on jury selection and opening statements.
Posted inFebruary 20, 2017: Overdosed
Outdoor rec industry defends public lands
Utah’s delegation tries to roll back protections, riling a conservation-minded outdoors cohort.
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A place for artists on public lands
The connection between art and the American landscape offers new ways to advocate for lands.
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What to read to prepare for the Bundys’ Nevada trial
The first of a trio of trials related to the 2014 standoff has started.
Posted inFebruary 6, 2017: River of Healing
Revisiting Malheur, one year after the occupation
The wildlife refuge system is more vulnerable than ever.
Posted inFebruary 6, 2017: River of Healing
The Grand Canyon, like you’ve never seen it
An artist’s connection to the landscape through her paintings.
Posted inFebruary 6, 2017: River of Healing
Will Big Rec leave Utah?; a heroic rescue; an ambling lynx
Mishaps and mayhem from around the region.
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In Wyoming, a cautious public lands victory
Grassroots efforts to fight land transfer bills have succeeded — for now.
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The BLM leases lands near Chaco Canyon for $3 million
The controversial parcels are the first auctioned online in New Mexico.