The 46th president finished his term in customary contradictory style.
Perspective
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Jimmy Carter’s mixed environmental record
The former president emphasized conservation, protection — and coal mining.
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Our imperiled public lands
President-elect Trump, a Republican-dominated Congress and Utah launch an all-out assault on environmental protection.
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Beautiful Bears Ears is at risk, again
What are the consequences for the land if the incoming president shrinks the national monument?
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My family experienced Indian boarding schools – and genocide
Why Biden’s apology didn’t go far enough.
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Montana’s Jon Tester might lose. Here’s why that matters
What the Senate contest says about the unexpected shift in Western politics.
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Welcome to Daylight Nonsense Time
When the Yukon tinkered with the time change, it stretched the Mountain Time Zone to its breaking point.
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How do you describe a sacred site without describing it?
Western journalism puts Indigenous reporters in a tricky position
where values don’t always align.
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The absolute urgency of voting with the climate in mind
Though it’s been urgent for years.
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Utah wants your public land — for more roads
The state wants to build a highway through tortoise habitat.
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Can words help us out of climate despair and toward repair?
How naming the climate struggle matters.
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A border need not be a wall
An immigration journalist on confronting laws and encountering humanity.
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The great Clean Girl vanishing act
The search for an ‘invisible’ perfume is rooted in frontier aesthetics.
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As DACA falls again, what does it mean to be American?
Tony Valdovinos was brought to the U.S. at the age of 2. The challenges of not having citizenship haven’t stopped his success.
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We don’t need utopias
What if Eden is chilling out in your neighborhood?
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Water quality research helps bring healing and sovereignty to the Apsáalooke
‘I know it is my responsibility to care for this land that has always taken care of me.’
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James Watt, Ted Kaczynski and power over lands
The legacies of the two recently departed men are intertwined.
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Can Denver live up to its reputation of being a ‘sanctuary city’?
The city’s response to migrant ‘surges’ endangers both newcomers and its long-standing unhoused population.
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Jackson as a safe haven in ‘The Last of Us’ is science fiction
Only the extremely wealthy might survive the Apocalypse in today’s western Wyoming town.