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April 1, 1983: Utah’s regulatory riddle
April 1, 1985: A New Mexico uranium town wonders how far it will fall
April 1, 1986: A still-wild chunk of America is vulnerable to development
April 1, 1996: Gambling: A tribe hits the jackpot
April 1, 2002: Move over! Will snowmobile tourism relax its grip on a gateway town?
April 1, 2020: Land-Grab Universities
April 1, 2021: Holding Fast
April 1, 2022: The Archives Issue
April 1, 2023: The Path Forward
April 10, 1970: Hunting regulations are to be discussed
April 10, 1989: Drought, fire and cold ravage Yellowstone’s elk
April 10, 2000: Beyond the Revolution
April 10, 2015: Strangers in a Strange Land
April 11, 1975: Ford taps Stan Hathaway for Interior
April 11, 1988: God’s country is being developed
April 12, 1974: Judge calls showdown in Montana
April 12, 1999: Is trapping doomed?
April 12, 2004: The One-Party West
April 12, 2010: The Butterfly Sting
April 13, 1973: The crisis in energy: confront or cooperate?
April 13, 1987: Heap leach mining comes to South Dakota
April 13, 1998: Oil clashes with elk in the Book Cliffs
April 13, 2009: The Desert That Breaks Annie Proulx’s Heart
April 14, 1972: Huge new complex proposed
April 14, 1997: Beauty and the Beast
April 14, 2003: Change comes slowly to Escalante county
April 14, 2008: Taking to the Trees
April 14, 2014: A landscape of surprises
April 15, 1983: Life after oil shale
April 15, 1985: Peaches and apples roar back
April 15, 1986: BLM privatizes some federal land
April 15, 1996: Raising a ranch from the dead
April 15, 2002: Raising a stink
April 15, 2013: Sacrificial Land
April 15, 2019: Scene of the Crime
April 16, 1971: Clear-cutting criticized
April 16, 1982: The Big Secret: Highly toxic pesticides in the Rockies
April 16, 1984: The Park Service mission hangs in the balance
April 16, 2007: Phoenix Falling?
April 16, 2012: The Other Bakken Boom
April 16, 2018: Cashing in on Standing Rock
April 17, 1970: Special issue: Earth Day
April 17, 1981: Tax forecloses inheritance dream
April 17, 1995: The New West’s servant economy
April 17, 2006: The War on Wildfire
April 18, 1980: Solitude, prejudice, and wool all around
April 18, 1994: The salmon win one
April 18, 2005: What Happened to Winter?
April 18, 2011: Muddy Waters
April 19, 1993: Clinton flinches under western pressure
April 2, 1971: Dams may still go in Hells Canyon
April 2, 1982: Denver: Power center of the Rockies
April 2, 1984: Oil shale comes on hard times
April 2, 2007: Disposable Workers of the Oil and Gas Fields
April 20, 1979: Feds eye West for radioactive garbage dump
April 20, 1992: The government’s investigative agency says, again, cows aren’t good for the arid West
April 2024: Epic Journeys
April 2025: A Monumental Reckoning
April 2026: Inside the Attack on Public Lands
April 21, 1978: McGrew calls insulation push ‘a consumer ripoff’
April 22, 1977: Bighorn water battle goes to court
April 22, 1991: Special issue: Northwest salmon at the crossroads
April 23, 1976: Kaiparowits coal power plans scuttled
April 23, 1990: HCN’s Annual Guide to Outdoor Education in the West
April 23, 2001: The Big Blowup
April 24, 1970: Park fish protected
April 24, 1989: HCN’s Guide to Outdoor Education in the West
April 24, 2000: At your service: Unions help some Western workers serve themselves
April 25, 1975: Who profits from our coal?
April 25, 1988: Ecotage versus infiltrage: A tale of two environmental strategies
April 26, 1974: To dam a river
April 26, 1999: Visionaries or dreamers?
April 26, 2004: Outsourced
April 26, 2010: Nevada’s Pot of Gold
April 27, 1973: ‘Landmark’ case heard
April 27, 1987: Two views of Allan Savory
April 27, 1998: The old West is going under
April 27, 2009: Got warriors?
April 27, 2015: Lost frontier
April 28, 1972: National Parks – what future?
April 28, 1997: Evangelical Christians preach a green gospel
April 28, 2003: Indian Power
April 28, 2008: Pillaging the Past
April 28, 2014: Two-Wheel Revolution
April 29, 1983: The populist tradition continues
April 29, 1985: A financial buccaneer and his resort come to Idaho’s Priest Lake
April 29, 1996: A park boss goes to bat for the land
April 29, 2002: The Great Salt Lake Mystery
April 29, 2013: A New Forest Paradigm
April 29, 2019: A History of Violence
April 3, 1970: Wyoming game herds are economically important
April 3, 1981: Oil shale future: Jewel or synfuel?
April 3, 1995: The Great Basin: America’s wasteland seeks a new identity
April 3, 2006: Land of Disenchantment
April 3, 2017: Firestorm
April 30, 1971: ‘Environmentalism’ catches on in Big Sky Country
April 30, 1982: Using the best guess
April 30, 1984: Can the West swim upstream to jobs and happiness?
April 30, 2007: Rural Education 2.0
April 30, 2012: A Mexican rancher struggles to shift from cattle to conservation
April 30, 2018: Celebrity Scofflaw
April 4, 1980: Debate roils over Utah’s troubled waters
April 4, 1994: Who speaks for the Colorado Plateau?
April 4, 2005: Calling It Quits
April 4, 2016: A Land Divided
April 5, 1993: Special issue: Small towns under seige
April 6, 1979: Slurry carries coal, water and controversy
April 6, 1992: Las Vegas: The boom craps out … and the city has second thoughts about water
April 7, 1978: Idaho elects wilderness champ and foe to Congress
April 8, 1977: Cranes’ fate depends on Platte’s flow
April 8, 1991: Overgrazing: Feds move to end it
April 9, 1976: ‘Either we share it or we lose it’
April 9, 1990: Groups plot political strategies for ancient forest protection
April 9, 2001: The water empress of Vegas
August 1, 1975: Power plant ahead
August 1, 1988: City slickers strike it rich in South Dakota
August 1, 2020: Infectious Ideologies
August 1, 2021: A Mega-Dairy Comes to the Desert
August 1, 2022: Our Fiery Future
August 1, 2023: In the Line of Fire
August 10, 1979: Uranium industry’s expansion prospects bleak
August 10, 1992: Arizona’s water disaster
August 11, 2008: Trouble in (Private) Paradise
August 12, 1977: Northern Cheyenne tribe wins Class I air quality
August 12, 1991: West’s grand old water doctrine dies
August 13, 2001: No refuge in the Klamath Basin
August 14, 1970: Antelope under gun; one-shot scheduled
August 14, 1989: In Tulluride, Colorado …
August 14, 2000: Meth invasion
August 15, 1988: Growing up among the ruins in Blanding, Utah
August 16, 1999: Standing up for the underdog
August 16, 2004: Journey of Rediscovery
August 16, 2010: Young, All-American, Illegal
August 17, 1973: “Land of Bewilderment”
August 17, 1987: Hoover Dam, 1990s version: The Superconducting Collider
August 17, 1998: Living out the trailer dream
August 17, 2009: From Corn to Cabernet
August 17, 2015: Little Big Bird
August 18, 1972: Make way for Progress!
August 18, 1986: Graverobbers, agencies at work sacking an ancient culture
August 18, 1997: The West that was, and the West that can be
August 18, 2003: Where the Antelope (and the Oil Companies) Play
August 18, 2014: Alaska’s Uncertain Food Future
August 19, 1985: How to articulate the delight?
August 19, 1996: Western voices
August 19, 2002: The Great Western Apocalypse
August 19, 2013: Dinosaur Wars
August 19, 2019: 2068: The Speculative Journalism Issue
August 2, 1974: Has the second home peak passed?
August 2, 1999: Jon Marvel vs. the Marlboro Man
August 2, 2004: The Greening of the Plains
August 2, 2010: The Fiery Touch
August 20, 1971: Mines and power make impact
August 20, 1982: Gas sours wildlife in Wyoming
August 20, 2007: Bonfire of the Superweeds
August 20, 2010: A Hell of an Anniversary
August 20, 2012: Troubled Taos
August 20, 2018: Where the West is Moving – and Why
August 2024: In the Wake of the Floods
August 2025: Fire Culture
August 21, 1995: HCN’s founder fights his last fight, yet again
August 21, 2006: The Lure of the Lawn
August 21, 2017: Rooftop Revolution
August 22, 1980: Focus on the sun
August 22, 1994: Whose fault? A Utah canyon turns deadly
August 22, 2005: A Military Town Fights for its Life
August 22, 2011: Looking for Balance in Navajoland
August 22, 2016: 100
August 23, 1993: Timber theft: Logging firms rob a lax agency
August 24, 1992: Leave it to beaver
August 25, 1978: Congress, Carter lock horns on water projects
August 25, 2008: Hot Wheels
August 26, 1991: Government tames its wild, destructive dam
August 27, 1976: John Wesley Powell tests El Dorado
August 27, 1990: Waterless in Wind River?
August 27, 2001: Restoring the range of light
August 28, 1970: Timber article publicized
August 28, 1989: Still wild at 25
August 28, 2000: The mine that turned the Red River blue
August 29, 1975: Governors unite on energy rights
August 29, 1988: Backhoe roots around in Indian graves
August 3, 1973: Off the road
August 3, 1987: In Denver, the rule is: Exhale, but don’t inhale
August 3, 1998: Tribes reclaim stolen lands
August 3, 2015: Outflanked
August 30, 1974: Coal conflict on Tongue River
August 30, 1999: Who’s stopping sprawl?
August 30, 2004: How Long Will it Flow?
August 31, 1973: Cody: homes on the range
August 31, 1987: Range war in South Dakota
August 31, 1998: Excavating Ecotopia
August 31, 2009: The dark side of dairies
August 31, 2015: Unlocking the Methane Mystery
August 31, 2018: The Big Threat to Bighorns
August 4, 1972: The Flathead – a wild river in danger
August 4, 1986: Gudy Gaskill and some friends build a 480-mile trail
August 4, 1997: Vanishing habitat
August 4, 2003: Pipe Dreams
August 4, 2008: Hostile Takeover
August 4, 2014: Idaho’s Sewer System
August 5, 1983: Missiles, men and Armageddon
August 5, 1985: The Wilderness Society’s outstanding alumni
August 5, 1996: Disappearing railroad blues
August 5, 2002: Land or money?
August 5, 2013: Mojave Squeeze
August 5, 2019: From Prison to Fireline
August 6, 1971: Timber study is released
August 6, 1984: The national forests are cooking
August 6, 2007: Guns R Us
August 6, 2012: Of Birds and Men
August 6, 2018: What Are We Doing Here?
August 7, 1981: Cattle, cussing and cowboys
August 7, 1995: Fighting fires, and indignities
August 7, 2006: Is It or Isn’t It (Just Another Mouse)?
August 7, 2017: Los Promotores
August 8, 1994: Glitz and growth take a major hit in Santa Fe
August 8, 2005: The Gangs of Zion
August 8, 2011: Ganjanomics
August 8, 2016: Line of Descent
August 9, 1993: Now dust is his crop, says Nevada rancher
December 1, 1978: TVA to be first at cleaning up old uranium site
December 1, 2020: A Community Divided
December 1, 2021: Visions of Wildness
December 1, 2022: Beyond Illusion
December 10, 1971: Desert study is released
December 10, 1982: Washington nuke plant has unsafe welds
December 10, 1984: Is America’s Indian policy that of ‘starve or sell’?
December 10, 2007: Rebels with a Lost Cause
December 10, 2012: The Evolution of Wildlife Tech
December 10, 2018: Critical Mass
December 11, 1981: Uranium tomorrow
December 11, 1995: Hunting: Its place in the West comes under attack
December 11, 2006: Old but Faithful
December 11, 2017: Scorched Earth
December 12, 1980: Rebels revel in new power, polish
December 12, 1983: 1984 may be a Wilderness Year
December 12, 1994: Shrink to fit
December 12, 2005: The Final Energy Frontier
December 12, 2011: Out on a limb
December 12, 2016: How the Park Service is Failing Women
December 13, 1993: Jack Ward Thomas: Hail to the chief
December 14, 1979: Canny CERT gets respect, money, problems
December 14, 1992: Wilderness bills: What went wrong … and is it time for a new approach?
December 15, 1978: Recharge could bring water, wildlife to dry plains
December 16, 1977: Yellowcake spilled; clean up slow, disorganized
December 16, 1991: Are the bison coming?
December 17, 1976: Domestic technology offers low-income people opportunity
December 17, 1990: Animas-La Plata: still flawed
December 17, 2001: Bad moon rising
December 18, 1970: Citizens speak out, oppose dams on Green
December 18, 1989: Poachers: Driving wild things to extinction
December 18, 2000: Still here: Can humans help other species defy extinction?
December 19, 1975: NEPA at stake?
December 19, 1988: The West’s nuclear revolt
December 2, 1977: Oil development threatens forests
December 2, 1991: The public gets a chance to revamp dams built 50 years ago
December 20, 1974: Jim Bridger builders break promises
December 20, 1999: Unleashing the Snake
December 20, 2004: Stand Your Ground
December 20, 2010: California Dreamin’
December 2023: A Festive Plant Runs Amok
December 2024: Land as Reparations
December 2025: Wild Harvest
December 21, 1973: Hooked on energy
December 21, 1987: Caves need protection
December 21, 1998: Grand Canyon Gridlock
December 21, 2009: Wind Resistance
December 21, 2015: Secrets of the Deep
December 22, 1972: A look back
December 22, 1986: An America that did not happen
December 22, 1997: Gold Rush: Mining seeks to tighten its grip on the ‘last, best place’
December 22, 2003: Being Green in the Land of the Saints
December 22, 2008: What a mess
December 22, 2014: The Dust Detectives
December 23, 1985: High Noon in Washington, D.C.
December 23, 1996: El Nuevo West
December 23, 2002: In search of the Glory Days
December 23, 2013: Beauty or Beast
December 24, 1971: Stripmining is “warfare”
December 24, 1982: Discovering the Rockies
December 24, 1984: Seeing the forest for the trees
December 24, 2007: Last chance for the Lobo
December 24, 2012: The new Wild, Wild West
December 24, 2018: Good news, bad news
December 25, 1995: Utah hearings misfire
December 25, 2006: Confessions of a Methane Floozy
December 25, 2017: Bear Essentials
December 26, 1980: Jeffrey City: “I don’t know a person in town who isn’t thinking of leaving”
December 26, 1983: Residents fight to control a toxic dump
December 26, 1994: Albuquerque learns it really is a desert town
December 26, 2005: A New Green Revolution
December 26, 2011: Perilous Passages
December 26, 2016: Obama and the West
December 27, 1993: Yellowstone
December 28, 1979: Fending off nature’s bill collector with planning
December 28, 1992: Audubon’s ‘ranch’ ungrazed, but used
December 29, 1978: BLM catches flak for wilderness inventory
December 3, 1976: Utah oil shale boom: not if, but when
December 3, 1990: A dead end for the grizzly?
December 3, 2001: Closing the wounds
December 30, 1977: Indians wresting for control over their minerals
December 30, 1991: Animal rights group takes aim at hunters
December 31, 1990: The land no one wanted
December 4, 1970: Skiing is great in Jackson Hole
December 4, 1989: The West’s fouled waters, Part II: The new reclamation
December 4, 2000: Road Block
December 5, 1975: People want power over transmission
December 5, 1988: Oil industry rolls over opponents
December 6, 1974: Ranching industry on the rocks
December 6, 1999: Peggy Godfrey’s long, strange trip
December 6, 2004: Where Do We Go From Here?
December 6, 2010: Toxic Past, Toxic Present
December 7, 1973: Reusing and recycling wastes: Kicking the garbage habit
December 7, 1987: Is Montana being (de)railroaded?
December 7, 1998: Vail and the road to a recreational empire
December 7, 2009: Dueling Claims
December 7, 2015: Good Neighbors
December 8, 1972: Disaster a matter of timing
December 8, 1986: With isolation and great vats of time
December 8, 1997: Mono Lake: Victory over Los Angeles turns into local controversy
December 8, 2003: Riding the middle path
December 8, 2008: Out in the cold
December 8, 2014: The Great Salmon Compromise
December 9, 1985: Sierra Club wins water lawsuit
December 9, 1996: Motorheads: The new, noisy, organized force in the West
December 9, 2002: Life in the wasteland
December 9, 2013: The Tree Coroners
December 9, 2019: Crossing to Safety
December 9, 2019: Party Favors
February 1, 1988: Idaho’s potato king proposes 100 power plants
February 1, 1999: Saving the Platte
February 1, 2010: ‘The environment … is where we live’
February 1, 2020: How One Woman Took a Stand Against Tribal Disenrollment and Paid For It
February 1, 2021: End of the Line
February 1, 2022: Essential
February 1, 2023: The Reveal
February 10, 1974: Everything you aren’t supposed to know about nuclear power
February 10, 1978: Are commercial solar systems worth the price?
February 10, 1992: David Love: His warnings about selenium in Wyoming aren’t new
February 11, 1977: Idaho legislature axes conservation programs
February 11, 1991: Idaho savors its waters as region seeks more hydropower
February 12, 1990: U.S. military plots vast land coups
February 12, 2001: Mr. Babbitt’s wild ride
February 13, 1970: Nixon moves on pollution front
February 13, 1976: BLM farm plans hold promise, problems
February 13, 1989: Are wildlife unbranded cattle?
February 14, 1975: Who’s getting to your legislator? (and what are they saying?)
February 14, 2000: Land of the fee
February 15, 1974: The hidden costs of coal
February 15, 1988: South Dakota Sioux demand the Black Hills
February 15, 1999: Uncommon Bounty
February 15, 2010: Prodigal Dogs
February 16, 1973: The crisis in energy: strip-mining laws
February 16, 1987: A game ranching bill in Wyoming pits landowners against hunters
February 16, 1998: Private rights vs. public lands
February 16, 2004: Courting Disaster
February 16, 2009: The Half-life of Memory
February 16, 2015: Chainsaw Diplomacy
February 17, 1986: Wolves make a comeback in the West
February 17, 1997: No home on the range
February 17, 2003: Wyoming at a crossroads
February 17, 2014: The Gila $olution
February 18, 1972: Montana air bartered
February 18, 1983: Declining demand and increasing rates
February 18, 1985: The boom is back in southwestern Wyoming
February 18, 2002: Here lies the Rio Grande
February 18, 2008: Reluctant Boomtown
February 18, 2013: Farming on the Fringe
February 18, 2019: Barriers to Entry
February 19, 1982: Feds study nuke dump near Canyonlands
February 19, 1996: Can a Colorado ski county say ‘Enough is enough’?
February 19, 2007: One nation, under fire
February 19, 2018: Unfrozen North
February 2, 1973: America’s wilderness: a chance to decide
February 2, 1987: The West cleans up its act
February 2, 1998: Looking at dams in a new way
February 2, 2004: Mending the Nets
February 2, 2009: Non-navigable River Blues
February 2, 2015: This Land is Their Land
February 2, 2016: Sagebrush Insurgency
February 20, 1970: Wyoming ranchers claim competition
February 20, 1981: Water warning: a ploy, or poison?
February 20, 1984: How Hugh Kaufman moves the ball
February 20, 1995: No more ignoring the obvious: Idaho sucks itself dry
February 20, 2006: High Noon for Habitat
February 20, 2012: How Arizona’s culture helped shape the shooting of Gabrielle Giffords
February 20, 2017: Overdosed
February 2024: The Creatures in Our Midst
February 2025: Immigrant Stories
February 2026: The Recording Artists
February 21, 1994: Draining the budget to desalt the Colorado
February 21, 2005: Have Environmentalists Failed the West?
February 21, 2011: Palin, politics, and predator control
February 22, 1980: Tailings, pollution haunt uranium company town
February 22, 1993: The continuing saga of New Mexico’s Gray Ranch
February 22, 2016: Fractured
February 23, 1979: Nation now molding its first Indian water policy
February 24, 1978: North Dakota’s delegation listens to agriculture
February 24, 1992: Sagebrush Rebellion II: Some rural counties seek to influence federal land use
February 25, 1977: Wood stove revival puts damper on energy costs
February 25, 1991: Colorado enters a new water era
February 26, 1990: Is the Forest Service changing?
February 26, 2001: Return of the natives
February 27, 1970: Wyoming ranchers now receive reimbursement
February 27, 1976: Salesmen with sun power woo West
February 27, 1989: Synthetic Fuels Revisited, Part I
February 28, 1975: Abracadabra! Idaho Power cleans up stacks
February 28, 2000: Acre by acre
February 29, 1988: Oil and gas leasing reform: Somewhat more than half a loaf
February 3, 1986: Leadville’s poisoned past … and present
February 3, 1997: Bringing back the bighorn
February 3, 2003: The death of the Super Hopper
February 3, 2014: The Hanford Whistleblowers
February 4, 1972: Game herds threatened
February 4, 1983: WIPPing into shape in New Mexico
February 4, 1985: Uranium mines and mills may have caused birth defects among Navajo Indians
February 4, 2002: Last dance for the sage grouse?
February 4, 2008: Unnatural Preservation
February 4, 2013: Making Good on the Badlands
February 4, 2019: Nizhoni Girls
February 5, 1971: Senator says forests are measured in board feet
February 5, 1982: Wild game on the table today, none on the range tomorrow?
February 5, 1996: Lack of enchantment: Santa Fe’s boom goes flat
February 5, 2007: The Efficiency Paradox
February 5, 2018: Caught Between Crises
February 6, 1970: More money for Yellowstone Park
February 6, 1981: Wyoming loses million on ore tax
February 6, 1984: Wyoming: a small town with long streets
February 6, 1995: The wolves are back, big time
February 6, 2006: The Killing Fields
February 6, 2012: Can evolution help snowshoe hares adapt to climate change?
February 6, 2017: River of Healing
February 7, 1994: Can she save ecosystems?
February 7, 2005: The Asphalt Graveyard
February 7, 2011: Obama and the West
February 8, 1980: High heating costs fire up consumers in Rockies
February 8, 1993: Lawmakers turn the Fifth into sharp-pointed sword
February 9, 1979: Colorado donors fear nongame double-cross
January 1, 1990: The decline of the West’s made-in-Washington economy continues
January 1, 2021: No Place Like Home
January 1, 2022: Water Rights and Responsibilities
January 1, 2023: Ripple Effects
January 11, 1980: New kind of ‘public interest’ group pushes growth
January 11, 2010: Breakdown
January 12, 1979: Will a tight-fisted Congress be tough on the environment?
January 12, 2015: What Are We Thinking?
January 13, 1978: BPA bill shapes destiny of states in Rockies
January 14, 1977: Rest-rotation range plan — panacea of problem?
January 15, 2001: Plains sense
January 16, 1970: 1970: Grizzly hunting protested by Wyoming sportsmen
January 16, 1976: Court lifts Powder River injunction
January 17, 1975: Cinderella Sunshine: A tale of two principalities
January 17, 2000: STOP
January 18, 1974: Oil shale fever rises in West
January 18, 1999: Desert sprawl
January 19, 1973: The crisis in energy: impact on Montana
January 19, 1987: Rebottling the nuclear genie
January 19, 1998: After the gold rush
January 19, 2004: Two decades of hard work, plowed under
January 19, 2009: Blood Quantum
January 2, 1976: Toilets: a revolution from the bottom up
January 20, 1986: The ‘eternal silence’ is shattered
January 20, 1997: Bees under siege
January 20, 2003: A breath of fresh air
January 20, 2014: Building a More Sustainable West, One City at a Time
January 2024: How to Build a Better Climate Future
January 2025: The West’s Most Wanted
January 2026: Deep Time in the West
January 21, 1972: Timber industry “calls shots”
January 21, 1983: Selling every seat in the House — and Senate
January 21, 1985: The Forest Service meets its critics
January 21, 2002: Finding the words
January 21, 2008: An energy oasis in the political desert
January 21, 2013: Special issue: Natural resources education
January 21, 2019: What Killed Washington’s Carbon Tax?
January 22, 1971: Governors outline many state problems
January 22, 1982: Juggling wildlife and ‘other needs’
January 22, 1996: At Hanford, the real estate is hot
January 22, 2007: Salmon Justice
January 22, 2018: A Separatist State of Mind
January 23, 1970: Trail meetings spark controversy
January 23, 1981: Water watchdogs neglect the Navajo
January 23, 1984: The future of the West
January 23, 1995: What a long strange trip it’s been
January 23, 2006: Timberlands up for grabs
January 23, 2012: Billboard corporations use money and influence to override your vote
January 23, 2017: For Which it Stands
January 24, 1994: Turmoil on the range
January 24, 2005: Written in the Rings
January 24, 2011: Serendipity in the Desert
January 25, 1980: Study of radioactive homes ‘lost’ for eight years
January 25, 1993: Can Bruce Babbitt make Interior hum?
January 25, 2016: The Forever War
January 26, 1979: BLM, back in the spotlight after year of neglect
January 27, 1978: Defenders of nature in the nation’s highest court
January 27, 1992: Nuclear Waste: In 10,000 years, how will we say ‘Keep Out’?
January 28, 1977: Wheatland: the model boom town?
January 28, 1991: Coyote slaughter: A federal killing machine rolls on
January 29, 1990: James McClure shakes up the Senate, and the West
January 29, 2001: Power on the loose
January 3, 1975: Western site sought for A-wastes
January 3, 1989: In southern Utah: Voters reject an industrial future
January 30, 1970: Hells Canyon still threatened
January 30, 1976: Donkey dilemma damages public land
January 31, 1975: State roadblock at Beaver Creek
January 31, 1989: Manuel Lujan: Lighter touch coming to Interior
January 31, 2000: Searching for pasture
January 4, 1974: Not so exotic: Solar power for the Seventies
January 5, 1973: The crisis in energy: exploiting the West
January 5, 1988: Is the grizzly adapting fast enough?
January 7, 1972: Huge power complex planned
January 8, 1971: Governors recognize environment issue
January 8, 1982: Surviving winter in the Rockies
January 9, 1981: ‘I’m a juggie’
July 1, 1977: Cowtown’s manure means megawatts
July 1, 1991: The Snake’s imperiled salmon: A personal call to act
July 1, 2020: ‘I am here fighting for my life and future children’
July 1, 2021: An Urban Greenspace Revolution
July 1, 2022: Living with Rivers
July 1, 2023: Waiting for Water
July 10, 1981: A mountain of money above a not-so-fruitful plan
July 11, 1980: States, courts, cutbacks put pressure on strip mine agency
July 13, 1979: The latest plan for the Clark Fork: preservation
July 13, 1992: Special issue: Part 2 of The Electric Revolution
July 14, 1978: Activists torn over what’s best for wild horses
July 15, 1977: Building political power — future of a movement
July 15, 1991: Special issue: The Central Arizona Project story
July 16, 1976: Northern Cheyenne want Class I air
July 16, 1990: Wolves make a comeback in Montana
July 17, 1970: Frontier Days slated
July 18, 1975: Wilderness endangered by overuse
July 18, 1988: Can nuclear waste be salted away?
July 19, 1974: Coal shifts to West
July 19, 2004: They’re Here: Global Warming’s Unlikely Harbingers
July 19, 2010: The Ute Paradox
July 2, 1976: San Luis Valley shows rural ingenuity
July 2, 1990: Sagebrush Rebels try to call the shots in Nevada
July 2, 2001: Can Nevada bury Yucca Mountain?
July 20, 2009: Thinking Outside the Timber Box
July 20, 2015: Shredded
July 2024: Avian Influencers
July 2025: Seeds as Sustenance
July 21, 1972: Revolution in land
July 21, 2008: A fractured party
July 21, 2014: On the Wild Edge
July 21, 2019: A Radical Return
July 22, 1983: San Juan Basin faces massive coal sale
July 22, 1985: Bailing out a National Monument in New Mexico
July 22, 1996: Glen Canyon: Using a dam to heal a river
July 22, 2013: Red Rock Resolution?
July 23, 1971: Eagles’ deaths NOT vindicated
July 23, 1982: Ferrets: The prognosis is good
July 23, 1984: Grazing in the West
July 23, 2007: Hydrogen Highway Revisited
July 23, 2012: The Hardest Climb
July 23, 2018: Pay for Prey
July 24, 1981: Peaking in on the Grand Canyon
July 24, 1995: Making a mountain into a starbase
July 24, 2006: Taking Liberties
July 24, 2017: Down the Dark Mountain
July 25, 1980: Squeezing the daylights out of Zion
July 25, 1994: ‘Unranchers’ reach for West’s state lands
July 25, 2005: The Many Faces of Richard Pombo
July 25, 2011: The Global West
July 25, 2016: Salmon Power
July 26, 1993: Clinton vs. Foley
July 27, 1979: Wilderness Society fires key Utah environmentalist
July 27, 2009: The Most Cooked-Up Catch
July 28, 1978: Power emissions may reduce ag productivity
July 29, 1977: Tribes probe possibilities of their coal, uranium
July 3, 1989: Tumbleweeds triumphant
July 3, 2000: A river resurrected
July 30, 1976: Shell says, ‘We’ll plan — our way’
July 30, 1990: Revolution at Utah’s grassroots
July 30, 2001: Not in our back yard
July 31, 1970: Green River damned?
July 31, 1989: Nuclear plant’s cover is blown
July 31, 2000: Out of the darkness
July 4, 1975: Energy conservation: Belt-tightening, leak-plugging, new technology
July 5, 1974: The Great Balancing Act
July 5, 1999: The new faces of the West
July 6, 1973: We’re alive and well, thank you!
July 6, 1987: Downwinders: America’s nuclear sacrificial lambs
July 6, 1998: Riding the Wyoming ‘brand’
July 7, 1972: A matter of facts!
July 7, 1986: Taking on the farm banks
July 7, 1997: While the New West booms, Wyoming mines, drills … and languishes
July 7, 2003: Invasion of the rock jocks
July 8, 1983: Playing presidential politics in Colorado ski country
July 8, 1985: A fruitgrower falls prey to his poisonous sprays
July 8, 2002: The anatomy of fire
July 9, 1971: Wyoming Council meets … new director named
July 9, 1982: Appropriate Technology
July 9, 1984: Can Edward Abbey learn to love Glen Canyon Dam?
June 1, 1979: Could energy seekers make Old Faithful falter?
June 1, 1992: National forest grazing cuts are stalled by politics
June 1, 2009: Voyage of the Dammed
June 1, 2020: Dissent at a Distance
June 1, 2021: Once and Future Fires
June 1, 2022: A Legacy of Weapons and War
June 1, 2023: Seen and Unseen
June 10, 1983: Money in search of an idea
June 10, 1985: The Endangered Species Act is thus far a glass hammer
June 10, 1996: Outdoor Education
June 10, 2002: Hatching reform
June 10, 2013: Paradise at a Price
June 10, 2019: ‘None of this happened the way you think it did’
June 11, 1971: Primitive area reviewed
June 11, 1984: The Big Dam Era on the Colorado River enters a new stage
June 11, 2007: Brave New Hay
June 11, 2012: The Darkest Shade of Polygamy
June 11, 2018: Reclaiming the Klamath
June 12, 1970: McGee calls for forest study
June 12, 1981: Looking for juice in backyard dams
June 12, 1982: A Midwestern water OPEC
June 12, 1995: The Southwest’s last real river: Will it flow on?
June 12, 2006: The Perpetual Growth Machine
June 12, 2017: The Big Swing
June 13, 1980: Digging up the West for shipment to Japan
June 13, 1994: A doomed species?
June 13, 2005: Owning a Piece of Paradise
June 13, 2011: Under the Flight Path
June 13, 2016: Water to Dust
June 14, 1993: Oregon’s Trojan horse
June 15, 1979: High prices, doubts plague wind power revival
June 15, 1992: Tribe wins back stolen water
June 15, 2009: Let’s Get Small
June 16, 1978: Lame ducks and a question mark lead Wyoming
June 17, 1977: Officials measure charms of Sweetwater Canyon
June 17, 1991: A wilderness war: Utah’s canyons cut to the bone
June 18, 1976: An invitation to a very strange place
June 18, 1990: Uranium has decimated Navajo miners
June 18, 2001: Transforming powers
June 19, 1970: Wyoming stockmen want payments for game feed
June 19, 1989: FBI changes four with attack on power line
June 19, 2000: Accidental refuge: Should we save the Salton Sea?
June 2, 1978: Dirty air a health hazard in 30 areas of West
June 20, 1975: ‘Irrigation water’ all goes to industry
June 20, 1988: Parks are increasingly vulnerable
June 2024: The Idea of Wilderness
June 2025: The Promised Land
June 21, 1974: It’s chicken power tomorrow
June 21, 1999: The disappearing farm
June 21, 2004: A Walk Between Worlds
June 21, 2010: Immersed in the Wild
June 22, 1973: The crisis in energy: stampede corralled
June 22, 1987: Update on Yellowstone: Mott quietly locks horns with his boss
June 22, 1998: Western water: Why it’s dirty and in short supply
June 22, 2015: Dust to Dust
June 23, 1972: Decision time for rugged land
June 23, 1986: Where’s the market?
June 23, 1997: On the trail of mining’s corporate nomads
June 23, 2003: ‘Sound science’ goes sour
June 23, 2008: Peace on the Klamath
June 23, 2014: River of No Return
June 24, 1983: Breaking faith with Old Faithful
June 24, 1985: Murky language lands an EIS in deep water
June 24, 1996: Catron County’s politics heat up as its land goes bankrupt
June 24, 2002: The buzz business
June 24, 2013: Water Rights
June 24, 2019: Losing Lake Coeur d’Alene
June 25, 1971: Eagles’ deaths are vindicated
June 25, 1982: A $40 million pork barrel
June 25, 1984: Geology of the West
June 25, 2007: Predator hunters for the environment
June 25, 2012: Special travel issue
June 25, 2018: Little Weed, Big Problem
June 26, 1970: Rendezvous tells of trapping days
June 26, 1981: The Overthrust moneybelt: Difficult dispersal of impact dollars
June 26, 1995: Colorado’s prison slayer
June 26, 2006: The Tamarisk Hunter
June 26, 2017: Personal Pilgrimage
June 27, 1980: Mining mishap could spell future trouble
June 27, 1994: Home, home on the range … where neo-Nazis and skinheads roam
June 27, 2005: Reflections on a Divided Land
June 27, 2011: Hydrofracked?
June 27, 2016: The New Advocates
June 28, 1993: Now showing in the Grand Canyon: L.A. smog
June 29, 1979: Roosevelt led charge for conservation
June 29, 1992: Special Issue: Part 1 of The Electric Revolution
June 3, 1977: Canadian project may pollute U.S.
June 3, 1991: A fading Yellowstone ‘Vision’
June 30, 1978: RARE II tables turn; conservationists enraged
June 4, 1976: Designating wilderness — asking for destruction?
June 4, 1990: The stake in the West’s heart
June 4, 2001: Tribal links
June 5, 1970: Laramie is gem city of the plains
June 5, 1989: Forester challenges his agency to a discussion
June 5, 2000: Change on the Plains
June 6, 1975: Game range transfer threat to wildlife?
June 6, 1988: Will the Crow Tribe dribble away $29 million in coal tax money?
June 7, 1974: Energy boom — plans and payments
June 7, 1999: Mining the past
June 7, 2004: Wal-Mart’s Manifest Destiny
June 7, 2010: One Tough Sucker
June 8, 1973: Popo Agie to be considered
June 8, 1987: Wyoming’s vast, scarred Red Desert
June 8, 1998: Don’t fence me in
June 8, 2015: Tree of Life
June 9, 1972: Sulfur tax endorsed
June 9, 1986: The dismal science grabs agriculture by the throat
June 9, 1997: Chaos comes to Costilla County
June 9, 2003: How we see the West
June 9, 2008: Why the West needs Mythic Cowboys
June 9, 2014: Border Out of Control
March 1, 1974: North Dakota’s riskiest harvest
March 1, 1999: Working the land back to health
March 1, 2004: The Last Open Range
March 1, 2010: The War Next Door
March 1, 2020: Predator (Mis)perceptions
March 1, 2021: The Rough Road Ahead
March 1, 2022: The Cloning Conundrum
March 1, 2023: Moving Parts
March 10, 1978: The West mines, mills and worships radioactive fuel
March 11, 1977: Boise rediscovers geothermal
March 12, 1976: Saving swamps for ducks and men
March 12, 1990: Bucking tradition
March 12, 1991: Missouri: a river basin at war
March 12, 2001: Divided Waters
March 13, 1970: Wyoming Game and Fish buys critical range
March 13, 1989: Synthetic Fuels Revisited, Part II
March 13, 2000: Libby’s dark secret
March 14, 1975: Habitat destruction threatens wildlife
March 14, 1988: Montana’s Clark Fork River: An industrial drain
March 15, 1974: On the verge of extinction
March 15, 1999: Selling off the Promised Land
March 15, 2004: The New Water Czars
March 15, 2010: Mobile Nation
March 16, 1973: Optimism reigns
March 16, 1987: The wild horse: Feral pest or living history?
March 16, 1998: Olympic onslaught: Salt Lake City braces for the winter games
March 16, 2009: Innovate
March 16, 2015: Wild Ride
March 16, 2020: Wiring the Wild
March 17, 1972: Last chance for wilderness
March 17, 1997: Working the Watershed
March 17, 2003: Bracing against the tide
March 17, 2008: Seeking the Water Jackpot
March 17, 2014: When California Kicks Coal
March 18, 1983: A grizzly situation
March 18, 1985: A busted Wyoming mining town remains haunted by 550 lost jobs
March 18, 1986: Nevada debates the virtues of wilderness
March 18, 1996: What does the West need to know?
March 18, 2002: How I lost my town
March 18, 2013: Second annual travel issue
March 18, 2019: Arizona’s Wild Horse Paradox
March 19, 1971: Montana is unique … environment has real champion
March 19, 1982: Wilderness on the rocks
March 19, 1984: Foes launch first-strike attack on MX
March 19, 2007: The Silence of the Bees
March 19, 2012: Water Warrior
March 19, 2018: Desert, Divided
March 2, 1973: Water report analyzed
March 2, 1987: The Hanford Nuclear Reservation: Poor engineering, worse PR
March 2, 1998: Wild horses: Do they belong in the West?
March 2, 2009: How low will it go?
March 2, 2015: Unite and Conquer
March 20, 1970: Feeding game is costly program
March 20, 1981: ‘Extinct’ grizzlies sighted in Colorado
March 20, 1995: The fight for Reclamation
March 20, 2006: Town Shopping
March 20, 2017: The Tree Ring
March 2024: Fertile Ground
March 2025: The Berry Pickers
March 2026: The Uncertainty of Farming in the Colorado River Basin
March 21, 1980: The grizzly: How many? Where? For how long?
March 21, 1994: On the borderline
March 21, 2005: An Empire Built on Sand
March 21, 2011: Big Beef
March 21, 2016: Making Sense of Malheur
March 22, 1993: The dam that won’t die
March 23, 1979: Stalemates spawn new breed: the eco-mediators
March 23, 1992: Special issue: An alternative to the bumpersticker approach to grazing
March 24, 1978: Colorado, maverick of the inland Western states
March 25, 1977: Utah legislature vows to make more and use less
March 26, 1976: Jackson Hole wrestles with growth
March 26, 1990: Is there room for everyone?
March 26, 1991: The nuclear wasting of the West
March 26, 2001: Teach the children well
March 27, 1970: Big game herds need critical winter range
March 27, 1989: In Montana: Grass-roots group may be Astroturf
March 27, 2000: The last wild river
March 28, 1975: Taking the lifeblood from the land
March 28, 1988: Off-road vehicles and the public’s land
March 29, 1974: Harnessing limitless energy
March 29, 1999: Wheeling and dealing
March 29, 2004: Who Will Take Over the Ranch?
March 3, 1972: Justice is prostituted! Is Werner to go free?
March 3, 1986: In defense of running cows on the public’s land
March 3, 1997: Hunters close ranks, and minds
March 3, 2003: The Wild Card
March 3, 2008: The People of the Sea
March 3, 2014: Fallon’s deadly legacy
March 30, 1973: Thanks! (to our dedicated readers)
March 30, 1987: The Northern Utes take on Utah
March 30, 1998: A bare-knuckled trio goes after the Forest Service
March 31, 1972: Aquatic deserts on the march
March 31, 1997: Big Sky, big mess in Montana
March 31, 2003: Tinkering with Nature
March 31, 2008: My Crazy Brother
March 4, 1983: To cut or not to cut
March 4, 1985: The West as military target
March 4, 1996: Who owns these bones?
March 4, 2002: Seed in the ground
March 4, 2013: Uncertain Landing
March 4, 2019: El Nuevo Movimiento
March 5, 1971: Nebraska rivers being threatened
March 5, 1982: Pine beetles munch on, policies differ
March 5, 1984: Linowes Commission raps coal leasing
March 5, 2007: Wish You Weren’t Here
March 5, 2012: The Zombies of Teton County
March 5, 2018: Drilling Chaco
March 6, 1970: Game-livestock competition is not very serious
March 6, 1981: John Baden: Put public lands in private hands
March 6, 1995: The fires next time
March 6, 2006: Save Our Snow
March 6, 2017: Uncomfortable Corners
March 7, 1980: How many coal bucks should a smart state lasso?
March 7, 1994: Pay as you waste, says EPA
March 7, 2005: Anarchy in the Gas Fields
March 7, 2011: High Tension
March 7, 2016: The Parks You Don’t Know
March 8, 1993: A famous skeleton returns to the earth
March 9, 1979: States ponder: who should pay to keep air clean?
March 9, 1992: Salmon: Can a new plan save the fish?
May 1, 1970: Special anniversary issue
May 1, 1981: Blowing it: ‘ecotage’ in Jackson Hole
May 1, 1995: Land grants under the microscope
May 1, 2006: Magic Valley Uprising
May 1, 2017: Change Comes to Short Creek
May 1, 2020: Lives on Lockdown
May 1, 2021: Beauty and Biodiversity in the Borderlands
May 1, 2022: New Ways of Seeing the West
May 1, 2023: Reemergence
May 10, 1974: Water dictates Western future
May 10, 1999: My beautiful ranchette
May 10, 2004: Shooting Spree
May 10, 2010: The Secret Lives of River Guides
May 11, 1973: ‘I’d hate to pay for another!’
May 11, 1987: A struggle for an Arizona peak
May 11, 1998: The working West: grassroots groups and their newsletters
May 11, 2015: The Wetland Wars
May 12, 1972: Storm brews over Utah
May 12, 1997: Planning under the gun: Cleaning up Lake Tahoe proves to be a dirty business
May 12, 2003: Planting time
May 12, 2008: Boom! Boom!
May 12, 2014: Parks for All?
May 13, 1983: A study in cooperation
May 13, 1985: Mining may come to a wilderness
May 13, 1996: Howdy, neighbor!
May 13, 2002: Beyond ecology: Restoring a cultural landscape
May 13, 2013: Right-wing Migration
May 13, 2019: Atomic Tourists
May 14, 1971: Wyoming eagles die mysteriously
May 14, 1982: Coyote: Predator and Prometheus
May 14, 1984: A stripmine clashes with an ancient Anasazi ruin
May 14, 2007: Two Views of the Verde
May 14, 2012: The sediment dumps of L.A.
May 14, 2018: Death in the Alpine
May 15, 1970: Yellowstone Park roads are open
May 15, 1981: No room in this field for the young
May 15, 1995: Dog and pony show about salmon and owls
May 15, 2006: The Immigrant’s Trail
May 15, 2017: Prison Town
May 16, 1980: Solitude seekers disagree about open spaces
May 16, 1994: Babbitt is trying to nationalize the BLM
May 16, 2005: Unsalvageable
May 16, 2011: Ripple Effects
May 16, 2016: Grizzly Face-Off
May 17, 1993: Fore! in Santa Fe
May 18, 1979: The nation’s hottest spot for cheap solar homes
May 18, 1992: A small town fights a large mine
May 18, 2009: The Rise of the Minotaur
May 19, 1978: Montanans face turmoil next election
May 2, 1980: Park Service director ousted in continuing policy strife
May 2, 1994: A struggle for the last grass
May 2, 2005: The Great Energy Divide
May 2, 2011: The Westerner in D.C
May 2, 2016: The Gold King Reckoning
May 20, 1977: Carter’s energy plan will push Western coal boom
May 20, 1991: Solar power becomes a reality
May 2025: The Art of the Cruise
May 21, 1976: Navajo Nation faces development
May 21, 1990: Will Las Vegas drain rural Nevada?
May 21, 2001: Quenching the big thirst
May 22, 1970: Wyoming meet called success
May 22, 1989: The charring of Wyoming
May 22, 2000: Save Our Sagebrush
May 23, 1975: Ski Yellowstone forces choice
May 23, 1988: How do you combine birds and bombs?
May 24, 1974: Return of the windmill
May 24, 1999: The last weird place
May 24, 2004: In Search of Solidarity
May 24, 2010: Accidental Wilderness
May 25, 1973: No more trade-offs!
May 25, 1987: Groundwater pollution: A silent, insidious invasion
May 25, 1998: Tackling tamarisk
May 25, 2015: Monument Man
May 26, 1972: Western coal development moves closer to realization
May 26, 1986: The fate of the grizzly
May 26, 1997: The sacred and profane collide in the West
May 26, 2003: A losing battle
May 26, 2008: On Cancer’s Trail
May 26, 2014: The Great Gun Rights Divide
May 27, 1983: Going from good to better
May 27, 1985: Wilderness: It ain’t what you think
May 27, 1996: Utah ushers its frogs toward oblivion
May 27, 2002: Wolf at the door
May 27, 2013: Haywired
May 27, 2019: Public Pushback
May 28, 1971: Eagle death toll mounts … poison found
May 28, 1982: The price of prosperity
May 28, 1984: Utah Governor declares war on a Canyonlands nuclear dump
May 28, 2007: Problems In Paradise
May 28, 2012: The Gila Bend Photon Club
May 28, 2018: The River of Lost Souls
May 29, 1970: TV program will expose mining
May 29, 1981: Rolling down the road — the invisible network of nuclear transport
May 29, 1995: Politics 101
May 29, 2006: ‘Clinging Hopelessly to the Past’
May 29, 2017: The Cost of a Comeback
May 3, 1993: Now that Denver has abdicated … who will coordinate and inspire the West?
May 30, 1980: Indians in the melting pot: ‘old ways’ don’t melt
May 30, 1994: Can mining come clean?
May 30, 2005: Write-off on the Range
May 30, 2011: Wolf Whiplash
May 30, 2016: Trial by Fire
May 31, 1993: Salmon advocates say: the quiet slaughter continues
May 4, 1979: On the watch for the elusive ferret
May 4, 1992: The race for Montana’s one congressional seat pits polar opposites
May 4, 2009: Salmon Salvation
May 5, 1978: Environmentalists, backlash, and the ‘New Right’
May 6, 1977: Coal plant planners eye Southern Utah
May 6, 1991: The bombing of the West
May 7, 1976: House bill prompts public lands alert
May 7, 1990: Readers react: A sequel to the special issue on grazing
May 7, 2001: Back into the woods
May 8, 1970: Dubois claims to be world rock capitol
May 8, 1989: Nevada fights its second nuclear war
May 8, 2000: After the fall
May 9, 1975: Southwestern cultures collide
May 9, 1988: Two Forks Dam: Push comes to shove
November 1, 1993: Sunbelt confrontation
November 1, 2020: When the Smoke Clears
November 1, 2021: The Radioactive Waste Next Door
November 1, 2022: The Futures of Conservation
November 1, 2023: Losing Ground
November 10, 1972: Oil shale development: A Colorado perspective
November 10, 1986: The Colorado River as plumbing
November 10, 1997: Drain Lake Powell? Democracy and science finally come West
November 10, 2003: San Diego’s Habitat Triage
November 10, 2008: Still Howling Wolf
November 10, 2014: Fallout
November 11, 1985: One man’s indictment of forestry in Arizona
November 11, 1996: Cease-fire called on the Animas-La Plata front
November 11, 2002: Behind the gate
November 11, 2013: Cosmic Prospecting
November 11, 2019: Storied Landscapes
November 12, 1971: Calls for halt in coal leases
November 12, 1982: Running the Rockies’ wild and scenic rivers
November 12, 1984: Fierce beauty devoid of economic advantage
November 12, 2007: L.A. Bets on the Farm
November 12, 2012: Nowhere to run
November 12, 2018: Old Wests, and new
November 13, 1981: Making the most of the public lands
November 13, 1995: Seeing the forest and the trees
November 13, 2006: Bred for success
November 13, 2017: Solace and Perspective
November 14, 1980: Anaconda: The smelter shuts down, and so does the town
November 14, 1983: New coalition fights pipeline
November 14, 1994: Land grant universities
November 14, 2005: Back On Track
November 14, 2011: Possessing the Wild
November 14, 2016: The Long View
November 15, 1993: The decline and fall of salmon
November 16, 1979: New coalition inspired by FARM conference
November 16, 1992: The 1992 Election: Nationally a revolution, in the West an evolution
November 17, 1978: Western Election Review
November 18, 1977: South Wyoming may not look like much, but …
November 18, 1991: A passive town in Utah awaits its fate
November 19, 1976: Boulder adopts plan to slow growth
November 19, 1990: ‘You don’t know what you’ve got till it’s gone …’
November 19, 2001: Bringing back the bosque
November 2, 1979: Wildlife and livestock face off in refuge battle
November 2, 1992: The nuclear age: 1945, the beginning; 1992, the beginning of the end
November 20, 1970: Yellowstone is winter Mecca
November 20, 1989: The West’s fouled waters, Part I: Billions for quantity, but not a penny for quality
November 20, 2000: Water pressure
November 2024: The Once and Future Prairie
November 2025: Precious Metalheads
November 21, 1975: Phosphate-hungry world after Idaho
November 21, 1988: The West voted left, right and center
November 21, 2008: Ultimate solution?
November 22, 1974: Meeteetsee contemplates its future
November 22, 1999: Go tell it on the mountain
November 22, 2004: Conservationist in a Conservative Land
November 22, 2010: Hardrock Showdown
November 23, 1973: The crisis in energy: Water comes up short
November 23, 1987: The wolf in the West: Singing a sad song
November 23, 1998: A patchwork peace unravels
November 23, 2009: After the Floods
November 23, 2015: Water Hustle
November 24, 1972: The Shame of It!
November 24, 1986: The two-party system is back
November 24, 1997: Restoring a refuge: Cows depart, but can antelope recover?
November 24, 2003: New Mexico goes head-to-head with a nuclear
juggernaut
November 24, 2014: Transportation Transformation
November 25, 1985: Tribes struggle for sovereignty and power
November 25, 1996: Pollution in paradise
November 25, 2002: Planning’s poster child grows up
November 25, 2013: Ecosystems 101
November 25, 2019: Forever Mines
November 26, 1971: Wild horses rounded up
November 26, 1982: Whitewater trespass
November 26, 1984: A Guide to the 99th Congress
November 26, 2007: Beetle Warfare
November 26, 2012: Casting for Common Ground
November 26, 2018: Follow the fish
November 27, 1981: Colorado at the Crossroads
November 27, 1995: Saving the ranch
November 27, 2006: The West: A New Center of Power
November 27, 2017: Profit and Politics
November 28, 1980: Channeling the stream of toxic wastes
November 28, 1983: Major quake reshapes Idaho
November 28, 1994: Beauty eludes the beast
November 28, 2005: Gold from the Gas Fields
November 28, 2011: Growing a Revolution
November 28, 2016: A Weird and Perfect Wilderness
November 29, 1993: Butte, Montana, seeks a new life
November 3, 1978: Amory Lovins brings good news
November 30, 1979: Agency’s wilderness grazing policies ‘too pure’
November 30, 1992: Pressure builds to change remote park
November 4, 1977: Solar heating industry troubled by installation, operating problems
November 4, 1991: Mining law is no longer a sacred cow
November 5, 1976: Uranium experiment moves into northeast Colorado
November 5, 1990: The game is changing in the wild West
November 5, 2001: Wyoming’s powder keg
November 6, 1970: Environment not yet a strong election issue
November 6, 1989: Money comes calling in a remote poor valley
November 6, 2000: ‘Re-inhabitation’ revisited
November 7, 1975: BN proposes fertilizer from coal
November 8, 1974: BLM exposes own grazing abuses
November 8, 1999: A new road for the public lands
November 8, 2004: Keepers of the Flame
November 8, 2010: Dr. No
November 9, 1973: The making of an energy skinflint
November 9, 1987: Acoma Indians protest a proposed national monument in New Mexico
November 9, 1998: Grizzly war
November 9, 2009: Roadless-less
November 9, 2015: The Campaign Against Coal
October 1, 1971: Hells Canyon moratorium
October 1, 1982: A talk with James Watt
October 1, 1984: A Western tradition ends with a conference on America’s parks
October 1, 2007: Sheep v. Sheep
October 1, 2010: Dancing with Climate Change
October 1, 2020: Democracy’s Frayed Western Front
October 1, 2021: In The Graces of Grasses
October 1, 2022: Making Refuge
October 10, 1975: S.D. farmers fight Oahe Diversion
October 10, 1988: Environmentalism triumphant
October 11, 1974: Cheyenne fight, again, for land
October 11, 1999: A home-grown Water War
October 11, 2004: The First Family of Western Conservation
October 12, 1973: Oil shale cost immense
October 12, 1987: The fight over Box-Death Hollow Wilderness
October 12, 1998: A river becomes a raw nerve
October 12, 2009: Silenced Springs?
October 12, 2015: The Rise of Lisa Murkowski
October 13, 1972: A moratorium is still needed
October 13, 1986: The Columbia River: An Age of Reform
October 13, 1997: The land is still public, but it’s no longer free
October 13, 2003: The Big Story Written Small
October 13, 2008: Back to the future
October 13, 2014: Charles Bowden’s Fury
October 14, 1983: A lawsuit drills oil and gas leases
October 14, 1985: Last stand for the Colorado Plateau
October 14, 1996: Greens prune their message to win the West’s voters
October 14, 2002: Democrats kick back: The politics of growth
October 14, 2013: The New Geronimo?
October 14, 2019: Severed Ties
October 15, 1971: Mike Frome ‘expurgated’
October 15, 1982: The Best and Worst of the West in Congress
October 15, 1984: America debates and litigates the future of its forests
October 15, 2007: Cat Fight on the Border
October 15, 2012: Are you a local?
October 15, 2018: Nature Retreat
October 16, 1981: Briney Colorado still defies salty solutions
October 16, 1995: In the heart of the New West, the sheep win one
October 16, 2006: A River Once More
October 17, 1980: Politics 1980
October 17, 1994: As elections near, green hopes wilt
October 17, 2005: The Ghosts of Yosemite
October 17, 2011: A Burning Problem
October 18, 1993: A lost land grant: Can it be reclaimed?
October 19, 1979: Sizing up a new fuel that may be coming soon to a pump near you
October 19, 1992: Water & Power
October 2, 1981: Encounters with Henry on Utah’s Green River
October 2, 1995: Did Idaho libel the feds?
October 2, 2006: From the ground up
October 2, 2017: Following Ancient Footsteps
October 2, 2023: The Dark Side of the Sheepherding Industry
October 20, 1978: National Park Service chases squirrels of political popularity
October 2024: Latino Vote
October 2025: Limits to Growth
October 21, 1977: Destined for conflict — or destruction
October 21, 1991: Sting uncovers eagle-killers
October 22, 1976: Telluride blues, a hatchet job
October 22, 1990: Will 1990 bring a greener West?
October 22, 2001: Healing the Gila
October 23, 1970: Success slowed by lack of snow
October 23, 1989: In Hells Canyon’s: timber cutting, jet boats and general neglect
October 23, 2000: Stalking Slade
October 24, 1975: Battle over Teton jetport still rages
October 24, 1988: The future
October 25, 1974: The last great carving up of America
October 25, 1999: Monumental chaos
October 25, 2004: Window Shopping: Part-Time Paradise
October 25, 2010: Lynch-Mob Politics
October 26, 1973: Black clouds gather
October 26, 1987: Ski industry collides with the big game industry
October 26, 1998: The Oregon way
October 26, 2009: The newest Westerners
October 26, 2015: Clean Energy’s Dirty Secret
October 27, 1972: Canyon highway a disaster
October 27, 1986: The Missouri River: In Search of Destiny
October 27, 1997: Deconstructing the age of dams
October 27, 2003: The Gear Biz
October 27, 2008: Prophets and politics
October 27, 2014: Defuse the West
October 28, 1985: The fully operational MX missile
October 28, 1996: Has big money doomed direct democracy?
October 28, 2002: Shadow Creatures
October 28, 2013: Lifeblood of the Delta
October 28, 2019: Where Hunting Still Has Meaning
October 29, 1971: Ranch sprays sage
October 29, 1982: Winding up in Medicine Bow
October 29, 1984: Is Colorado River water for sale?
October 29, 2007: Which Way West
October 29, 2012: Red State Rising
October 29, 2018: When your neighborhood goes BOOM
October 3, 1980: Tampering with the elements: success or failure?
October 3, 1983: Floods reveal water policy chaos
October 3, 1994: Subdividing the desert: Should there be a vote?
October 3, 2005: Out of the Four Corners
October 3, 2016: Purple Rain
October 30, 1981: Montana
October 30, 1995: Nevada’s ugly tug-of war
October 30, 2006: Peace Breaks Out In New Mexico’s Forests
October 30, 2017: The Changing Face of Woods Work
October 31, 1980: Archeologists dig for points, paydirt
October 31, 1983: What Watt wrought
October 31, 1994: Water for the taking
October 31, 2005: The Public Lands’ Big Cash Crop
October 31, 2011: Omens from a Vanished Sea
October 31, 2016: A Monumental Divide
October 4, 1993: Mining reform: Searching for common ground
October 5, 1979: Quiet Stillwater disturbed by platinum plant
October 5, 1992: Western voters face clear choices
October 6, 1978: Merson flaunts environmental bias
October 7, 1977: Former foes try combining forces
October 7, 1991: Two say politics rules their agencies
October 8, 1976: Rocks, rivers, snakes, solitude — Owyhee
October 8, 1990: Can natural gas fuel a Rocky Mountain high?
October 8, 2001: Whoa! Canada!
October 9, 1970: Eagle’s Nest Wilderness is set for hearings
October 9, 1989: WIPP is dazed, but not dead
October 9, 2000: The hunters and the hunted
September 1, 1972: A plea for wilderness
September 1, 1986: Ski area proposal goes smash
September 1, 1997: Radioactive waste from Hanford is seeping toward the Columbia
September 1, 2003: Courting the Bomb
September 1, 2014: Lost in the Woods
September 1, 2020: The Next West
September 1, 2021: Where Wolves May Tread
September 1, 2022: Going Under
September 1, 2023: Food Justice
September 10, 1976: Women face boom town isolation
September 10, 1990: Dumps ‘R’ Us
September 10, 2001: The rise and fall of a desert stream
September 11, 1970: Banish those billboards?
September 11, 1989: Two Forks dam: EPA reaffirms its veto intent
September 11, 2000: Holy water
September 12, 1975: Does the nation need Western coal?
September 12, 1988: The Reopening of the Western Frontier, Part 1
September 13, 1974: So rich a solitude
September 13, 1999: Troubled Oasis
September 13, 2004: When a Boom is a Bust
September 14, 1973: Our land is finite …
September 14, 1987: Beauty, isolation and cheap land bring a sect to Montana
September 14, 1998: We are shaped by the sound of wind, the slant of sunlight
September 14, 2009: Home
September 14, 2015: Close Ties in Big Landscapes
September 15, 1972: Decisions made on desert
September 15, 1986: Two views of the grizzly
September 15, 1997: Yellowstone at 125: The park as a sovereign state
September 15, 2003: The West’s Biggest Bully
September 15, 2014: Books & Essays
September 16, 1985: Seeing the forest through the eyes of its users
September 16, 1996: The filthy West: Toxics pour into our air, water, land
September 16, 2002: The Royal Squeeze
September 16, 2013: Intimate Geographies
September 16, 2019: “We can either wait on Mother Nature – or we can give it a shot ourselves.”
September 17, 1971: Teton Dam controversial, review is needed
September 17, 1982: Rain, rain, go away
September 17, 1984: The Garrison Diversion Project is North Dakota’s history, and destiny
September 17, 2007: Facing the yuck factor
September 17, 2012: Pallids in Purgatory
September 17, 2018: The Pioneer of Ruin
September 18, 1981: Crying wolf — restoring the ‘rapacious predator’ to the Rockies
September 18, 1995: The West’s fisheries spin out of control
September 18, 2006: Going Big
September 18, 2017: No Hoax
September 19, 1980: Dinosaur dynamos?
September 19, 1983: Acid rain: a corrosive issue across the nation
September 19, 1994: Flame and blame in the Northwest
September 19, 2005: Squeezing Water from a Stone
September 19, 2011: Redemption
September 19, 2016: Frontera Incognita
September 2, 1996: Last line of defense: Civil disobedience and protest slow down ‘lawless logging’
September 2, 2002: Backlash
September 2, 2013: Of Sparrows and Sodbusters
September 2, 2019: In Bad Faith
September 20, 1993: Triumph, Idaho, to EPA: Get out
September 2024: When Migrants Go Missing
September 2025: Who Controls Our Food?
September 21, 1979: Northern Tier oil pipe likely to go if dollars flow
September 21, 1992: Battle for the Bones
September 22, 1978: Conservationist offers remedy for Overthrust strife
September 23, 1977: Flathead Coalition primes for battle with Canada
September 23, 1991: How a Montana reporter wrote what he saw … and lost his job
September 24, 1976: Joy, shipmates, joy!
September 24, 1990: The West’s ailing ski industry turns to all-season mega-resorts
September 24, 2001: River of dreams
September 25, 1970: Rock hunter’s guide listed
September 25, 1989: Special issue: High Country News is 20
September 25, 2000: Backyard boom
September 26, 1975: TVA moves West for fuel
September 26, 1988: The bust in agriculture and mining
September 27, 1974: Earth energy
September 27, 1999: The Millworker and the Forest
September 27, 2004: Life After Old Growth
September 28, 1973: Disaster waits in the wings, but our wastefulness continues
September 28, 1987: Sewage industry beats critic
September 28, 1998: A senator for the New West in the race of his life
September 29, 1972: There goes our air!
September 29, 1986: Western Water Made Simple
September 29, 1997: The timber wars evolve into a divisive attempt at peace
September 29, 2003: Harvesting Poison
September 3, 1971: Senator says he is shocked
September 3, 1982: Idaho’s $10 an acre ‘dream land’
September 3, 1984: Acid rain: The damage it does can be deadly
September 3, 2007: A Climate Change Solution?
September 3, 2010: Migration
September 3, 2012: Identity Politics, Montana Style
September 30, 1985: Let the brawl begin
September 30, 1996: Can this man break the right’s grip on Idaho?
September 30, 2002: Delta Blues
September 4, 1981: Super-trains breed super-terminals
September 4, 1995: I came, I saw, I wrote a guidebook
September 4, 2006: Blast from the Past
September 4, 2017: The Elwha, Unleashed
September 5, 1980: Ailing uranium millworkers seek recognition, aid
September 5, 1983: Dollars no longer flow uphill
September 5, 1994: Can planning rein in a stampede?
September 5, 2005: Rangeland Revival
September 5, 2011: For the love of hummers
September 5, 2016: When the Doctor is Out
September 6, 1993: On their own: Eagles make a comeback
September 7, 1979: Boulder smolders as growth struggle continues
September 7, 1992: Developer builds in a wilderness
September 8, 1978: 1978, the year the Senate shortchanged Alaska?
September 9, 1977: Firms buy out opposition
September 9, 1991: High noon in Nevada
September 9, 2008: Reclaiming the low country
May 2024: A River Returns
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