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Funding a greener Eugene • A ballot measure in the Oregon city could provide millions of dollars for climate-resilience projects.
The snow fence is a Wyoming icon • The hubris and ingenuity behind a life-saving structure.
Dryout in the Grand Canyon • The impacts will reverberate through recreation, river ecology and local tribes.
What California owes for Native land • In 1972, the state told Native families it would pay them 47 cents an acre.
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HIDDEN WATERS • AN ARTIST CHRONICLES THE SOUTHWEST’S DISAPPEARING WATERS.
AFTER THE BARB • The promises and pains of de-wiring the West.
Sweat yourself clean • Getting immersed in the Yup’ik sauna tradition.
Advice for a fractured world • Freaked out about everything? Aileen Keown Vaux has a poem for you.
Heard Around the West • Tips about Western oddities are appreciated and often shared in this column. Write heard@hcn.org.
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