Although urban planners and environmentalists worry about these issues constantly, the blind faith by which most people involved with western development have assumed that water supplies would be found is amazing and disturbing. “There is no planning for a continuation of the drought we’ve had,”...
American West
123 years ago today, on December 29, 1890, the United States Army massacred between 150 and 300 Lakota at Wounded Knee, South Dakota, effectively ending the active military engagements of.
Tom Foley's death is a worthy time to think about the late 20th century transition in western politics. Foley was really the last of a generation of western politicians who.
One reason Republicans are in no hurry to reopen the government is that it in itself accomplishes major aims of the party. Among the many examples of this is throwing the operation of federal public lands back to the states, as we are seeing with...
How bad is the long-term drought in the West? The enormous rains of last week in Colorado helped a lot locally, barely put a dent in the larger indicators. If.
If you don't read Peter Gleick on water and the West, you really need to because he's the most important journalist focusing on this vital issue. And if he says.
Western states and ideological conservatives continue their multi-decade ban against the federal government's control over public land, demanding the government get out of their ability to do whatever they want to the land while still expecting subsidies for those acivities both direct and indirect. One...
The Wounded Knee Massacre of 1890 (also home to the Wounded Knee shootout between AIM and the FBI in 1973) is on the Pine Ridge Reservation. But not all reservation.
A great photo gallery of the vanishing towns of Montana, where just a few people hold on in isolated places. Or sometimes they disappear from the map entirely. The American.
Most of us might not see the direct impact of the sequester on our lives yet. But for those reliant on the federal government, it's already hurting bad. The Post has a good piece on how Yellowstone National Park is adapting. The answer is that...
On November 29, 1864, Colonel John Chivington, a former abolitionist preacher, led a military expedition against an encampment of Cheyenne and Arapaho Indians at Sand Creek in southeastern Colorado. The.
The Wind River Reservation in Wyoming has received a lot of attention lately because of its endemic poverty and high crime rates. It started with this Times article last year.