Pronghorn Offer Clues to Survival in a Warming World.
One sunny June morning, amidst the sagebrush of western Wyoming, a pair of pronghorn fawns erupted from near my feet, their spindly legs a blur as they sprinted away, vanishing…
One sunny June morning, amidst the sagebrush of western Wyoming, a pair of pronghorn fawns erupted from near my feet, their spindly legs a blur as they sprinted away, vanishing…
President Donald Trump is contemplating opening over 113 million acres of Alaskan waters to seabed mining, a move that echoes similar proposals for the waters surrounding American Samoa, Guam, and…
The vast, ancient narrative of the American West, spanning billions of years, continues to shape its majestic landscapes, underlying resources, and even its contemporary environmental challenges. A recent comprehensive project…
Lytle Denny, a member of the Shoshone-Bannock Tribes, learned the intricate tapestry of the high-desert landscape in southeastern Idaho from a young age, discerning the precise habitats of blue, ruffed,…
The United States Senate recently advanced a crucial, albeit limited, spending package designed to largely maintain current funding levels for several pivotal science and land-related federal agencies. This legislative action,…
The author’s former home in Montana’s Rattlesnake Valley, a neighborhood built over what residents knew to be burial plots, served as a stark reminder of a history deliberately obscured. Whispers…
Fifty miles east of Reno, Nevada, on the outskirts of Fallon, John King stood by a highway, gazing at the ranch where a significant chapter of LGBTQ+ rodeo history was…
The stark beauty of the American Northwest and the challenging lives of its laborers are brought to the screen in the film adaptation of Denis Johnson’s novella, "Train Dreams." The…
The advent of the Information Age, characterized by the explosive growth of artificial intelligence, pervasive cloud computing, and a global shift towards remote work, has profoundly reshaped human interaction and…
The seemingly ubiquitous tumbleweed, often seen bunched along highway fences, sprouting against office buildings, or flourishing in desiccated backyards, holds a surprising complexity. Though commonly known as Russian thistle, a…