Climate disasters are killing the largest subset of California farms. Government programs are too.

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How Ayabe-way-we-tung guided his tribe in the midst of colonization.

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A new Endangered Species Act petition could trigger major conservation actions to save the West’s saline lakes.

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The elusive long-billed curlew finds refuge in fragmented grasslands.

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Louis Carlos Bernal saw his role
as creating art of and for the people.

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Wilderness areas are changing in profound ways — and so are our ideas about them.

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The bigotry displayed when white supremacists disrupted a Pride celebration in Centralia repeats a pattern that dates back to 1919.

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One of the nation’s fastest-growing cities relies on a vulnerable population of workers to fuel its economic explosion.

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When the West’s electrical grid is targeted, motives tend to matter less than ensuing propaganda.

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Will Westerners repair a fractured landscape for mule deer, pronghorn, and elk?

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