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 ...

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.

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

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.

If you have climbed a peak or hiked in a golden aspen forest, paddled a protected river or visited a cultural site on any of the hundreds of millions of acres of public national forest land, there’s a ...

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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Madhvi Chittoor has had a hectic summer. For months, the 13-year-old has attended hearings, reviewed environmental assessments and emailed government officials. She wants to stop Civitas, a Denver ...

Jess peered over my shoulder at my handiwork. I sat at her kitchen counter in Lander, Wyoming, clutching a Sharpie and scribbling the names of wild game dishes on sheets of computer paper folded ...