A new climate change novel predicts a dystopian West of sand and refugees.
Arts & Culture
Posted inJanuary 25, 2016: The Forever War
A tale of two BLM mascots
Johnny Horizon and Seymour Antelope show the agency’s changing focus.
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The obscure music where wild animals sing from the heart
In a small corner of popular music, there are songs that have been written and sung in the haunting voices of animals, and the Canadian singer-songwriters Gordon Lightfoot and Ian Tyson have written what I think are the best of them. In Lightfoot’s “Whispers of the North,” a loon speaks: whispers of the northsoon I […]
Posted inNovember 23, 2015: Water Hustle
You are on Indian Land: A provocative look at contemporary art
A multimedia exhibit at the Museum of Northern Arizona
Posted inNovember 9, 2015: The Campaign Against Coal
A tour of vibrant skies of the north
A review of ‘The Northern Lights: Celestial Performances of the Aurora Borealis,’ by Daryl Pederson and Calvin Hall.
Posted inNovember 9, 2015: The Campaign Against Coal
Knock-out punch
A review of ‘Contenders,’ by Erika Krouse.
Posted inNovember 9, 2015: The Campaign Against Coal
The Greatest Generation at its worst
A review of ‘Infamy: The Shocking Story of the Japanese American Internment in World War II,’ by Richard Reeves.
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Two oil-boom soap operas, then and now
How ‘Blood & Oil’ in today’s Bakken and ‘Dynasty’ in a 1980s Colorado match up.
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Can studying morality help Yellowstone’s wolves and bison?
Sociologist Justin Farrell plumbs the spiritual depths of environmental struggle.
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I have seen the future, and it looks like Mad Max
How a post-apocalyptic action movie can help us ward off ecological disaster.
Posted inMay 25, 2015: Monument Man
A film documents two friends on the Sierra trek
Review of “Only the Essential: A Hike from Mexico to Canada on the Pacific Crest Trail” by Colin Arisman.
Posted inApril 27, 2015: Lost frontier
Photos and recordings of Pacific Northwest and Southeast Alaska
Review of “Wilderness” by Debra Bloomfield.
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An international street artist goes tagging in Joshua Tree
The latest in a string of graffiti incidents in national parks.
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Photographs of American histories
Sites where gruesome, beautiful and bizarre events have taken place in Western history and film.
Posted inFebruary 2, 2015: This Land is Their Land
‘I Am Alaskan’
The surprising diversity of the 49th state, through Brian Adams’ lens.
Posted inFebruary 2, 2015: This Land is Their Land
Galloping beyond the cliché
Review of art exhibit “William Matthews: Trespassing” at DAM
Posted inJanuary 12, 2015: What Are We Thinking?
A modern movement in tribal building design
Review of “New Architecture on Indigenous Lands,” by Joy Monice Malnar and Frank Vodvarka
Posted inDecember 22, 2014: The Dust Detectives
Photographs of New Mexicans spanning 20 years
Review of “Taos Portraits: Photos by Paul O’Connor.”
Posted inDecember 22, 2014: The Dust Detectives
Aerial photos of drilling at Pawnee grassland
Oil and gas development has been ongoing for decades in northeastern Colorado.
Posted inDecember 8, 2014: The Great Salmon Compromise
Contemporary photographs of 19th century art
Review of “Karl Bodmer’s America Revisited” by Robert Lindholm.