Reducing the risk of wild fire devastation in the Sierra Nevada is a daunting and multi-faceted task. Much of the effort is ...

Even though one in five Americans is estimated to suffer from mental health illness, talk about mental health in the rural West remains muted. I’d like to talk about it this Thanksgiving [season] ...

Wolves have multiplied rapidly in California since 2011. Image courtesy of Matt Johanson. A loud howl pierced a dark night in the southern Sierra Nevada mountains. For most of my life, wolves were ...

The stereotypical story of the American West conjures images of unforgiving terrain, rugged masculinity and a cowboy and ...

The stereotypical story of the American West conjures images of unforgiving terrain, rugged masculinity and a cowboy and ranching culture. But despite these Western tropes it also has a surprising ...

This story was originally published by Barn Raiser, your independent source for rural and small town news. “Each of us is put here in this time and this place to personally decide the future of ...

What a thousand-year-old Indigenous prayer teaches us about reciprocity and healing from the destructive consumption of our society ...

As I watched Donald Trump arrive at an astounding victory election night, I was struck by his strong turnout in both rural and urban parts of the country. But I couldn’t stop thinking: Do voters ...

In some ways, the university’s Sesquicentennial Celebration leaves indigenous history, context and perspective behind ...

Used with permission from Ernesto Aguilar. The phrase “not a monolith” is often used as a comfortable shorthand for Hispanic voters. But, when it gets real, this notion unfolds in ways that require ...