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Western Culture December 21, 2009 Life Along the Colorado River Published by High Country News. On the Colorado River, cheap, plentiful water is only a mirage. An essay accompanying Kasia Broussalian's photographs of the river and its people. See a slideshow of her work here. 
December 01, 2009Focus Group Published by OnEarth Magazine. On the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota, the members of the "Seventh Generation" tell the story of their lives. A collaboration with photojournalist Lynn Johnson. 
September 14, 2009Township 13 South, Range 92 West, Section 35 Published by High Country News. Discovering a home of mysteries and restless souls. Winner of the 2010 First Person Narrative Award from the American Society of Journalists and Authors. 
November 10, 2008The Doc is In Published by High Country News. Rural residents find common ground at the vet's office. See JT Thomas' photos and hear a reading of the essay in this slideshow. 
August 27, 2008A Proudly American Company Ships Jobs to China Published by The Christian Science Monitor. Chaco Sandals in Paonia, Colo., succumbs to market forces and lays off 45 full-time workers, silencing a factory -- and a town. Photos by JT Thomas. 
January 08, 2008Sweet Fifteen in Sonora Published by The Christian Science Monitor. In the desert of northwestern Mexico, the traditional quinceañera is a chance to be a princess for a day. October 29, 2007 The Last Ride Published by High Country News. One hitchhiker's oral history. August 15, 2007 Wildfires Ignite Worries Published by All Things Considered. On living with fire. May 31, 2007 Luau in the Desert Published by The Christian Science Monitor. Descendants of Polynesian pioneers throw a party in Utah. August 21, 2006 The Lure of the Lawn Published by High Country News. Turfgrass is the largest irrigated crop in the United States. What's behind its persistent appeal? An abridged version of this story appeared in the San Francisco Chronicle. March 05, 2006 Forgiving Dalton Trumbo Published by The San Francisco Chronicle. Dalton Trumbo, the blacklisted Hollywood screenwriter, outraged his Colorado hometown with his first novel. Seventy years later, that town is giving Trumbo another chance. November 01, 2005 Between Hoofprints Published by Orion. The Quivira Coalition searches for true common ground in the West's grazing wars. A feature with lovely photographs by Lisa Hamilton. Contact me for full text. October 01, 2004 For Sale By Owners Published by Smithsonian. A tiny town in Wyoming bands together to save its Main Street department store. January 01, 2004 New Mexico's Strange Love Published by Mother Jones. Carlsbad, New Mexico's quest to host a nuclear bomb plant. November 01, 2003 Tribal Talk Published by Smithsonian. An immersion school on the Blackfeet Reservation in Montana strives to restore the tribe's ancestral language. September 01, 2003 Courting the Bomb Published by High Country News. The hardscrabble desert town of Carlsbad, N.M. is brushing aside the fears of environmentalists and arms-control advocates in its eagerness to host a new nuclear bomb plant. July 11, 2002 Life in the Stupid Zone Published by Grist Magazine. What it's like to wait for your house to burn down. An essay that also appeared in The Denver Post and elsewhere. May 13, 2002 Where Free Trade is More than an Acronym Published by High Country News. An essay about picking onions along the Mexican border. Also appeared in the Denver Post and other regional newspapers. January 21, 2002 Finding the Words Published by High Country News. Native Americans are working to revive vanishing tribal languages, using their elders and language-immersion schools to try to gain fluent speakers. February 26, 2001 Return of the Natives Published by High Country News. In Idaho, the Nez Perce have become the first tribe to oversee the statewide recovery of an endangered species, the gray wolf, an experience that is energizing the tribe's own political and spiritual recovery. |
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Follow me on Twitter Listen to my interview with the founder of conservation biology, Michael Soule, on wolves and Colorado Watch a slideshow and hear an interview based on my High Country News essay "Township 13 South, Range 92 West, Section 35." Listen to my 2008 commencement address at Reed College
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