“Resiliency is traditionally defined as the ability to recover from some manner of ecological disturbance in some time frame. But that’s not what ecosystems do,” Kaufmann says. “Say a forest fire ...
Meredith Lawrence is an arts and culture writer and photographer. Her work has appeared in Paste, No Depression, GRAMMY.com, American Theatre Mag, Vox, Brooklyn Mag, Craftsmanship Mag, Alta Journal ...
If you have climbed a peak or hiked in a golden aspen forest, paddled a protected river or visited a cultural site on any of the hundreds of millions of acres of public national forest land, there’s a ...
Madhvi became interested in environmental issues at an early age. When she was 5, she watched a documentary about a Pacific island overrun with trash. Birds and nearby aquatic life fed on the plastic ...
This year marks the centennial of the Indian Citizenship Act, which theoretically gave Native people the right to vote in U.S ...
The reservoirs were under threat, and had been for decades.
This month, we look at the upcoming elections from a Western viewpoint. Some Latino organizers in Washington are working on ...
Across the country, Latinos occupy an increasingly sought-after position of influence in the election: swing voters in swing states. In total, an estimated 17.5 million Latinos are expected to ...
Located on a former ranch in western Arizona, the hot spring is framed by rolling desert hills. Though trucks may sometimes drive down a nearby dirt road, it’s mostly quiet. That serenity is an ...
Ten years ago, hundreds of people gathered in a dusty wash underneath a freeway overpass 80 miles east of Las Vegas, near the town of Bunkerville, Nevada. They arrived at the behest of a reedy ...
From climate and public lands to shifting political allegiances, the region faces critical choices at the ballot box.