It was easy, growing up on Colorado’s Front Range, to see things in a simple oppositional framework: There’s this and that — either/or — the Rockies in one direction and the Great Plains in the other.

Afton Montgomery has recent work in Electric Lit, The Millions, Chicago Review of Books, Pleiades, The Common, Prairie Schooner, Fence, and others. A former independent bookstore buyer in Denver, she ...

A program that pays rice farmers to create wetland habitats is a rare conservation win.

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The Arizona Corporation Commission has come under scrutiny for its continued support of fossil fuels and resistance to supporting more solar in the state. Three seats could make the difference.

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Eric Parker from central Idaho aims his weapon from a bridge as protesters gather by the Bureau of Land Management’s base camp near Bunkerville, Nevada, in April 2014. Credit: Jim Urquhart ...

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