Mountain West News

A curated newsletter of the big stories up and down the Rocky Mountains, from the O'Connor Center for the Rocky Mountain West

Groups sue to save the Great Salt Lake

Also: This newsletter's editor signs off

14 days ago

Growth and development

'This changes everything'

The Montana climate ruling's ripple effects

a month ago

Growth and development

Housing

Oil and gas

Ancestral footprints

Tracking the week's monumental news

a month ago

Growth and development

Housing

The fever of extremism

On the Greater Idaho movement and 'The Age of Insurrection'

2 months ago

Political beasts

Inside the West's wild rumpus

2 months ago

Growth and development

In hot water

Fish are feeling the heat

2 months ago

Charged atmosphere

A battery of big energy and climate stories

2 months ago

Growth and development

Books, pencils and erasure

How Utah’s education system is failing Ute kids

2 months ago

The heat is on

Suffering in the sweltering Southwest

2 months ago

Growth and development

Oil and gas

Fish and wildlife

Forgotten sovereigns

On tribal water rights and wrongs

2 months ago

Growth and development

Oil and gas

Fish and wildlife

Recreation

Barreling along

Tracing the route—and risks—of the Uinta Basin Railway

3 months ago

Fragile menagerie

A sage grouse flap and other habitat disputes

3 months ago

Growth and development

Finding paydirt

On critical minerals and other mining nuggets

3 months ago

Reshaping Yellowstone

How last year's epic flood changed the park and people

3 months ago

Growth and development

Between tribes and their water

And other breaches and battles

3 months ago

Growth and development

Extraction and resistance

On the very messy energy transition

3 months ago

Growth and development

Recreation

A climate trial and tribulations

Montana doubles down on fossil fuels

3 months ago

Growth and development

Journalism

A new lease on land

The BLM's big idea raises hopes and hackles

4 months ago

Growth and development

Colorado River reprieve

On buying time and other hard bargains

4 months ago

Growth and development

Questions of coexistence

Living with wolves and other political beasts

4 months ago

Trials by fire

The barriers to controlled burns and other hot topics

4 months ago

Growth and development

Indigenous stories matter

On a Pulitzer and giving voice

4 months ago

Wind resistance

The blowup over Lava Ridge

4 months ago

The buildup

Mountain West rewriting its zoning regs

5 months ago

Growth and development

Housing

Climate change

Flow states

Coursing down the Colorado

5 months ago