Election politics brought a wave of “green decrees” from Washington. President Clinton has locked in the support of national environmental

The modern environmental movement evolved from the conservation movement of the turn of the century. We can be grateful for

In Idaho, state wildlife biologists are doing something they never learned in college—teaching trout how to eat native foods. It

Deep ecologists urge us to “return to nature”. If we reconnect with nature in a primitive, spiritual way, we may

Let’s celebrate our most creative laborers — the entrepreneurs. Entrepreneurs have been neglected by economists and ignored or derided by

Some books change our thinking about institutions long taken for granted. Marc Reisner’s Cadillac Desert explained how Western water flows

More young Americans believe in UFOs than believe they’ll receive Social Security. Only 25% of Americans trust the federal government.

Our Stolen Future portrays a frightening world where synthetic chemicals assault our fertility, intelligence, and survival. But instead of delivering

The Gallatin Institute links writers of the West with environmental economists. Last weekend poets, novelists, historians and essayists spent three

It’s clear the rural American West is in transition. Ways of life, deeply rooted in the culture of ranching, mining