The Magazine

Grazing reform appears to be a sustainable and unstoppable movement to recover lost land.

We want you to know about the many opportunities there are to get to know the West’s wildlife, spectacular lands and the people who bring it all to meaning.

As the ancient forests of the Northwest continue to fall as fast as ever, conservationists and politicians are wrestling to draft new legislation that would save the remaining trees.

The tranquil snowscape of Yellowstone has become a symbol of efforts to expand commercial development in the national parks.

Can ranchers change the way they do business and move toward sustainable practices?

A former timber sale planner says “it’s all talk.”

If the U.S. military has its way, 3.5 million acres in the West would be converted into a make-believe war zone.

The surprise announcement by Sen. James McClure that he will not seek a fourth term had an earthquake-like effect on the relatively stable structure of Idaho’s congressional politics.

What sense are we to make of the inland West’s last 10 years? And what possible futures can we imagine for the 1990s and beyond, based on our interpretation of the 1980s?

As habitat dwindles around the world, the Rocky Mountain West has become a stronghold for commercial poachers and illegal hunters seeking the last concentrations of trophy animals.

The drastic decline of the West’s natural resource economy and the failings of conventional water development have created a climate for change.

The West’s refusal to confront the issue of water quality will haunt the region.

Colorado’s sparsely populated and remote San Luis Valley is without strong ties to either Denver’s urbanized Front Range or to the state’s rural Western Slope. But that may be ending.

If scenery, wildlife and pure spectacle mean anything, Hells Canyon and its environs will someday be recognized as a national treasure. But today it is only another controversial wild area and even the controversy is local, rather than national.

The fight over the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant in New Mexico is in a stalemate.

An improbable newspaper reaches an improbable age.

The Environmental Protection Agency has pushed the proposed Two Forks dam one step closer to oblivion.

Canyonlands National Park remains primitive, with more dirt roads than paved.

Mining has left hollowed-out, suppurating mountains and mesas of waste. Now the town, state and mining company debate potential fix-up plans.

On June 6, 75 agents from a joint FBI-EPA task force raided the Rocky Flats nuclear weapons plant near Denver.