The Magazine

The Arizona Mineral and Fossil Show in Tucson highlights the growing controversy over who has the right to valuable fossils found on public lands.

Eagle, Colo., residents wage a 13-year war against developer Fred Kummer’s plans to build a mega-ski resort called Adam’s Rib.

Santa Fe’s hotel and tourism industry blames populist Mayor Debbie Jaramillo for the slowing of the city’s upscale boom.

Conservationists, politicians, Indians and farmers fight over the polluted but beautiful land of Washington’s Hanford Nuclear Reservation.

Utah’s wilderness hearings stir controversy and draw vigorous support for more wilderness designation as the battle over wilderness in Utah lurches toward a vote in Congress.

Hunting in the West faces public relations problems as well as questions about ethical and biological issues.

John Fetcher’s ranching family leads the way in an effort to preserve open land through conservation easements in the rapidly growing Steamboat Springs area.

Western forestry schools slowly begin to reflect the changes in modern forestry.

A writer tours the heart of the Sagebrush Rebellion – Elko County, Nev. – and talks to people on both sides of the struggle.

The Hispanic livestock cooperative, Ganados del Valle, wins a lawsuit against the Sierra Club Foundation in New Mexico’s Chama Valley.

A newly released tape of the encounter of three federal agents with Idaho rancher Eugene Hussey over the killing of a wolf proves that the “feds” were not aggressors.

The story of whirling disease in Western trout is a story of human “improvement on nature” gone wrong.

The increase in numbers of tourists drawn to the canyon country by guidebooks and magazines raises questions about exploiting and overusing a fragile landscape.

As HCN turns 25 years of age, HCN founder Tom Bell fights the proposed Altamont gas pipeline, which he says would harm the historic Oregon Trail at South Pass.

World War II conscientious objectors who served as smokejumpers on Western forest fires reminisce about the difficulties and dangers they faced.

The University of Arizona’s determination to build a world-class observatory on Mount Graham creates a storm of controversy involving an endangered red squirrel and an Indian tribe’s desire to protect the mountain as a sacred place.

Small businessman Tom Huerkamp fights the building of prisons in the rural West and looks for other ways to generate an economy.

Arizona’s San Pedro River – the Southwest’s last natural low-desert river – still faces a number of threats to its survival.

A reporter travels through Washington state’s 5th congressional district to try to understand the November election defeat of Democratic Speaker of the House Tom Foley after 30 years in office.

Public hearings on the rewriting of the Endangered Species Act stir up controversy among environmentalists and their opponents.