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Eaten like artichokes, Agave phillipsiana sheds light on Indigenous cultivation and commerce. BY VINCENT DIAZ, CARRIE CANNON, AND WENDY HODGSON

 

Young leaders return to their ancestral lands in the Grand Canyon. BY AMBER BENALLY

 

Balancing cultural values with the pressure to make a living. BY DARYN AKEI MELVIN

 

 

 

 

The many stories of Bears Ears have the power to heal and to teach. BY TIM PETERSON

 

Native scientists, farmers, artists, and activists share their cultural connections to the Little Colorado River. BY SARANA RIGGS

 

Honoring our ancestors and maintaining our living cultures, while giving forthcoming generations their own cultural ground to stand on. BY LYLE BALENQUAH

 

 

 

What's in store for the spectacular side canyons along the Escalante River? BY JOHN LESHY

 

 

 

To know this world, you must see it from the ground. BY KEVIN FEDARKO

 

 

 

The legal fight for Bears Ears and Grand Staircase. BY TIM PETERSON

 

 

With bills in Congress to gut the Antiquities Act, protecting it will take all of us. BY RAÚL GRIJALVA

 

 

 

A 1,000-mile walk gives a former U.S. senator a new appreciation for the West’s most precious resource. BY MARK UDALL

 

The West’s water deficit and what to do about it. BY ROBERT GLENNON

 

Global warming is making fur hats passé, but beavers themselves are making a comeback. BY ELLEN HEYN

In a West transformed by climate change, there will be boomers, busters, and stickers. Which are you? BY WILLIAM DEBUYS

 

What happens at the Grand Canyon—good or bad—will reverberate throughout the rest of the nation's parks. BY KEVIN FEDARKO

 

What a law professor's road trip with her 13-year-old daughter reveals about the next generation of conservationists. BY SARAH KRAKOFF

 

Indigenous communities and climate change. BY REBECCA TSOSIE