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Owned and operated • A driver-led rideshare co-op launches in Denver.
Spring of Whirling Omens
Anatomy of a border town • Why can’t Farmington shake its reputation as a ‘poster child’ for anti-Indigenous violence?
Get to know the Pacific brant • Technological advances are transforming scientists’ knowledge of North America’s favorite goose.
Is your pension fund liquidating Oregon’s forests? • Lax state regulations create a timber bonanza for institutional investors.
The return • Salmon are reclaiming the waterways above the recently removed Klamath River dams.
A year of wacky weather • Climate change heats things up across the West.
Thank you, readers! • Your generous and dedicated support makes these pages possible.
Finding common ground in divisive times
UNSTEADY GROUND • California’s approach to Black reparations shifts toward land access, ownership and stewardship.
BURNED • Devastation is hard to face, but turning away is harder.
For the win • The Indigenous film Rez Ball shows the challenges and triumphs of small-town Native life.
The passion of the Mormon feminist • For 50 years, the magazine Exponent II has been making the LDS Church squirm, and it has no plans to stop.
Denim daydream • The idea of blue jeans being sexy arose in part from gay cowboy erotica.
Heard Around the West • Tips about Western oddities are appreciated and often shared in this column. Write heard@hcn.org.
#IAM THE WEST • MIEL FRANCO PÉREZ (THEY/THEM/ELLE) DJ and founder of ¡DYKED! (sapphic, queer pop-up dance, music and art events) Salt Lake City, Utah