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The big spill • In Portland, a major earthquake would trigger a catastrophic oil spill. Locals are trying to fix that.
What tribal leaders think about Interior’s dams report • The federal government has acknowledged the harms of Columbia River dams. Now what?
Immigrant influencers • With xenophobia on the rise, Venezuelans in the West use social media to counter negative stereotypes.
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Sponge cities • How to engineer flood resilience as climate change exacerbates storms.
Road interrupted • A landslide closed much of Denali National Park’s iconic road — much to the delight of bears.
Get to know the western bumblebee • This struggling species may soon be the new face of insect conservation in the West.
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911 ON THE BORDER • Can the Border Patrol fulfill its duty to aid the very migrants it is tasked with catching and deporting?
What Is Permanence? • Land art in the age of LandBack.
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The scrappy store that gave me everything when I had nothing • Before its demise, the 99 Cents Only chain fed generations of families across four states.
The butterfly effect • What a 9,000-mile painted lady migration taught me about queer survival.
Heard Around the West • Tips about Western oddities are appreciated and often shared in this column. Write heard@hcn.org.
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