The Magazine

The closure of Camp Grisdale, a planned community for a permanent workforce of loggers on Washington’s Olympic Peninsula, marks the end of a sustained-yield program that was supposed to last at least a century.

Art Cuelho, in his 20-by-24-foot garage studio in Big Timber, Mont., runs Seven Buffaloes Press, perhaps the only independent rural press still around.

People in the West voted as Nevadans, North Dakotans and Oregonians, not as participants in a national plebiscite. See election results from 10 states and the Navajo Nation.

Part 4 of the award-winning four-issue series Western Water Made Simple.

Part 3 of the award-winning four-issue series Western Water Made Simple.

Part 2 of the award-winning four-issue series Western Water Made Simple.

Part 1 of the award-winning four-issue series about water in the West.

As grizzly bears cause trouble for ranchers near Choteau, Mont., a father and son see the issue differently.

The collapse of the Wolf Creek Pass ski resort snares 80 partnerships, 800 investors, $65 million in partnership capital and $170 million in real estate.

A federal sting stirs up Blanding, Utah, which lies in one of the richest archaeological regions in the United States.

The Colorado Trail — a Denver to Durango mountain path for hikers, horses and mountain bikes — is being built for a pittance by volunteers after a well-funded professional effort collapsed several years ago.

In Part 3 of a three-issue series on agriculture, a sheep-ranching family struggles against the Production Credit Association, a bank meant to help farmers but that sometimes appears to turn on them.

Part 2 of a three-issue series on agriculture. From roughly 1970 through 1985, the beef industry put money and research into improving productivity instead of learning the marketing techniques that would have addressed America’s changing eating habits — and now it’s in trouble.

Part 1 of a three-issue series on agriculture explores the breakdown on the ever-expanding fringes of the farm economy that has made long-fixed attitudes and policies about rural America negotiable.

Are grizzly bears thriving or vanishing?

Despite pleadings to the contrary by federal appraisers, the Nevada district director for the Bureau of Land Management and his superiors in Washington, D.C., have approved a controversial sale of public land.

A special issue on Montana’s Glacier-Bob Marshall country.

In Nevada, the only Western state without Forest Service wilderness, Congress has finally begun to examine mountain ranges for potential wilderness.

Utah rancher Cecil Garland says we can learn from the damage down by livestock, and correct it while moving into a future that includes grazing on public lands.

Gone from the West for almost 50 years, wolves recently crossed the Canadian border to colonize Montana’s Northern Rockies.