The Magazine

For years, Native Americans, fishermen and farmers have
battled over the Klamath River in southern Oregon and Northern
California, but finally a complicated truce is in the
works.

Jeffrey Lockwood believes that the modern West could use
an infusion of old-fashioned Cowboy Mythology.

The women in Stefanie Raymond-Whish’s family have a
history of breast cancer, and the young Navajo biologist wants to
know whether the uranium on the reservation might have something to
do with it.

An energy boom of unprecedented proportions is
transforming western Colorado towns like Rifle, which just recently
recovered from the last big energy boom – and a catastrophic
bust.

Craig Childs explores the fine line that separates
archeology from grave-robbing in the American Southwest.

After conquering rocks, trails and mountains, weekend
warriors have found a new hobby: Climbing the West’s big
trees.

Ray Ring takes a personal, painful look at the
West’s suicidal tendencies, as shown in the life and death of
his brother, John.

The Navajo Nation is determined to finally claim its
rightful share of the Colorado River after 86 years of being left
out of the region’s water politics.

California’s Salton Sea is at a crossroads, but
whether it dries up and blows away or is restored and rejuvenated,
the future does not look bright for its resident renegades,
retirees and recluses.

A copper-mining company is courting Superior, Ariz., but
the former mining town – now re-inventing itself as a modest
tourist haven – is unsure whether it really wants a new
marriage with extractive industry

Public-land managers in the era of global warming face
uncomfortable choices: Do they intervene to protect dying plants
and animals, or stand back and let this new version of
“nature” take its course?

The Interior West’s growing political voice –
and its status as the nation’s energy supplier – mean
presidential candidates need to see the region as more than
campaign flyover country.

In Catron County, N.M., an attempt to reintroduce
endangered Mexican wolves has fallen into chaos in the wake of
political misjudgments, local hostility and problems caused by
inbreeding among the wolves.

The fiercely conservative lawyers of the Sagebrush
Rebellion continue to fight against environmental regulations, but
despite all their sound and fury, very little has changed on the
public lands.

Scientists unleash a new weapon in the fight against
invasive tamarisk – a tiny exotic beetle from
Kazakhstan.

The Metropolitan Water District of Southern California
– the West’s most powerful water agency – uses a
shrewd blend of Wall Street tactics and rural diplomacy to keep the
water flowing to L.A. and its environs.