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.

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 ...

Este artículo también está disponible en español. On a warm evening in late July, Maria Beltran walked down a quiet, tree-lined street in Yakima, Washington. Beltran, who is running for state ...

Hualapai tribal members and supporters marched through Phoenix, Arizona in September to protest the BLM's approval for more drilling near the Ha'Kwame' hot spring. Credit: Ash Ponders / High ...

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 ...