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Fire map goes up in flames • In Oregon, an attempt to mitigate wildfire risk sparks a property rights fight.
Femme fire • A first-of-its-kind training works to extinguish hypermasculinity in firefighting culture.
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Assisting the Rio Grande cutthroat • Scientists wage an upstream battle to save trout in a warming West.
The black walnut is an organizer • Neighborhood activists use environmental protections to fight gentrification.
Office of the lost • To identify the remains of missing migrants, a Borderlands medical examiner’s office transforms itself.
Troubled tides • Climate change, immigration crackdowns and housing costs squeeze workers at the nation’s largest shellfish farm.
La Niña hat trick • The weather pattern hits the West for a third consecutive winter.
Leave us a little behind • Your financial contributions make a big difference!
We’re not moving after all
The Body of the Snake • Debate over the lower Snake River dams’ removal has gone on for decades. What will it take to protect the river’s health?
Why are Saudi farmers pumping Arizona groundwater? • A conversation with Natalie Koch, author of Arid Empire: The Entangled Fates of Arabia and Arizona
Growing up queer in Colorado Springs • Reflections on an adolescence in the ‘Evangelical Vatican’ in the wake of the November Club Q mass shooting.
Heard Around the West • Tips about Western oddities are appreciated and often shared in this column. Write heard@hcn.org.
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