Books and Articles
| Author | Title | Media-Type | Description |
| Western Watersheds Project | Watersheds Messenger - Summer 2004, Vol.11 No.2 x2 | Article | Working to protect and restore western watersheds and wildlife through education, public policy initiatives, and litigation. |
| Taylor, Kevin | Roadkill is a right and a privilege, and don't you forget it. | Article | From High Country News. |
| Sewall, Chris | Digging Holes in the Spirit | Article | Gold mining and the survival of the Western Shoshone Nation. |
| Rogers, Keith | Toads to Get Own Pad | Article | An environmental group is acquiring a ranch near Beatty (Nevada) that will become a preserve for a rare species (Amargosa toads). |
| Rodriguez, Sylvia | Procession and Sacred Landscape in New Mexico | Article | From New Mexico Historical Review. Processions, pilgrimages, and parades: a genre of human ritual behavior. |
| Richardson, Robert B. | Economic Benefits of Wildlands in the Eastern Sierra Nevada Region of California,The | Article | The Wilderness Society: Report demonstrates that wilderness and other natural areas provide direct and indirect benefits to humans, including economic benefits--contributing over $700 million per year in the Eastern Sierra wildlands. |
| Rasker, Ray et al. | Prosperity in the 21st Century West: The Role of Protected Public Lands - July 2004 x2 | Article | Sonoran Institute publication. |
| Predator Conservation Alliance | Wild Guardian - Winter 2004 Vol. 1 No. 1 | Article | A field journal for coexisting with wildlife. |
| Predator Conservation Alliance | Keeping the Wild in the West Spring 2004 Vol. 2 No. 1 | Article | Forest Service proposes new 18.5 million-acre lynx strategy. New science on coexisting with predators |
| Predator Conservation Alliance | Keeping the Wild in the West 2002 | Article | A multi-species carnivore conservation initiative for the American West. |
| Predator Conservation Alliance | Home Range, The - Spring 2004 | Article | Quarterly newsletter of the Predator Conservation Alliance. Launch of Northern Plains Conservation Network. Wild E. Coyote Kid's Page. Adopt-A-Ferret. |
| Placer Dome Incorporated | Sustainability Report: U.S. Operations | Article | Placer Dome is the worlds fifth largest gold producer. Report demonstrates the integration of sustainability into Placer Dome's business plans. |
| Placer Dome Incorporated | PDG Corporate Sustainability Report 2003 x2 | Article | Placer Dome's beleifs, values, policy, and principles which guide their efforts for sustainability. |
| Pezeshki, Chuck | Epilogue - Why | Article | From Wild to the Last. |
| Orion | Orion Magazine | Article | Issues: Jan/Feb 2003, Mar/Apr 2003, May/June 2003, Jul/Aug 2003, Nov/Dec 2003, Jan/Feb 2004, Mar/Apr 2004, May/Jun 2004, Jul/Aug 2004, Sept/Oct 2004, + 20th Anniversary Issue. Visit www.oriononline.org |
| O'Brien, Mary | The Breaking of Three Hearts - Part I: Democracy | Article | """The heart of democracy is being attacked by the Bush administration.""" |
| O'Brien, Mary | Science, Ethics, and Changed Lives: How Did Rachel Carson Do It? | Article | """A testament to Rachel Carson's success at making readers feel they had important roles they could play in their societies and environments.""" |
| O'Brien, Mary | NEPA June 11, 2004 | Article | """The heart of democracy is being attacked by the Bush administration."" On the National Environmental Policy Act. Published in Orion, Sept. 2004" |
| Northern Lights Institute | Chronicle of Community Winter 1998,Vol. 2 No. 2 | Article | Bears, people, power: a tough formula for collaboration. |
| NMPIRG | Water and Growth in New Mexico | Article | Water and growth in New Mexico: NM water history, policy recommendations. |
| Nature Conservancy | Nature Conservancy Magazine - Fall 2003 Vol. 53 No. 3 | Article | Innovation in conservation. www.nature.org |
| National Park Service | Yellowstone: When Bison Leave the Park | Article | Summary of bison statistics regarding exodus from Yellowstone. |
| National Park Service | Bison Management Plan for the State of Montana and Yellowstone National Park - August 2000 x3 | Article | Executive summary. |
| Moskowitz, Karyn and Chuck Romaniello | Assessing the Full Cost of the Federal Grazing Program | Article | Study examining budget records and other data to derive a $124 million price tag on grazing in the Western US. |
| Mitchell, John G. | Public Lands | Article | From National Geographic. A story about a part of America hardly anyone knows...public lands. BLM. |
| Miller, Kit | Inside the Glitter: Lives of Casino Workers | Article | From The Grit Beneath the Glitter: Tales from the Real Las Vegas. Profiles of various Casino workers, their work lives, and their real lives. |
| McCarthy, Terry | High Noon in the West | Article | From Time Magazine. Environmental policy conflict in the West. |
| Mann, Charles C. | 1491 | Article | From The Atlantic Monthly. Before it became the New World, the Western Hemisphere was more populous and sophisticated than has been thought… New evidence points to the possibility that the Amazon rain forest may be a largely human artifact. |
| Limerick, Patricia Nelson | Seeing and Being Seen: Tourism in the American West | Article | Chapter Two from Seeing and Being Seen: Tourism in the American West. |
| LADWP: Los Angeles Department of Water and Power | Your Guide to the Great Owens Valley | Article | LADWP manages natural resources and land uses throughout the Owens Valley. |
| Klein, Norman M. | Scripting Las Vegas: Noir Naifs, Junking Up, and the New Strip | Article | From The Grit Beneath the Glitter: Tales from the Real Las Vegas. The grander the illusion, the more dysfunction it hides. |
| Kirk, Jay | My Undertaker, My Pimp | Article | Looking for grace in a desert brothel. |
| Kemmis, Daniel | Moffat County Trust Proposal | Article | Letter of response regarding the Moffta County proposal to establish a trust arrangement for public lands in Moffat County, Colorado. |
| High Country News | High Country News 12/08/2003 | Article | Riding the middle path: In the Bush era, can a homegrown consensus effort bring wilderness protection to Idaho's sagebrush sea? Feds fess up to killing fish in the Klamath. As Congress wraps up for the year, enviros try to keep their heads up. A cheer for bison and the Rocky Mountain Front. |
| High Country News | High Country News 11/24/2004 | Article | "Little Boy vs. Fat Man: New Mexico bureaucrats get tough on a national nuclear, as toxic waste oozes toward the Rio Grande. Taxpayers say ""no"" to a road through a national monument. Telluride's airport gets set to go big time. In Butte, Montana, Evel Knieval lands at the head of the parade." |
| High Country News | High Country News 10/27/2003 | Article | The Gear Biz: The West has become the nation's playground, but is there a future here for the folks who make our outdoor toys? - Hal Clifford. In California, a water fight of imperial proportions comes to an end. National monuments hold up under attack. Greens steal a line from Nike in the Northwest. |
| High Country News | High Country News 10/13/2003 | Article | The Big Story Written Small: After more than a hundred years of publishing, the West's daily newspapers still fall short where it counts most. Give me your bombs, your radioactive waste, your nuclear fuel. Western patriots lash back at the Patriot Act. New books from the fire lines. |
| High Country News | High Country News 09/29/2003 | Article | Harvesting Poison: In the little-seen world of immigrant farmworkers, pesticides are a constant threat - and for the workers, the only options are shutting up or getting out. While Congress took a break, the Environmental Protection Agency went berserk. Driving cattle - and pulling strings - in Wyoming. Sturgeon get an ETA for extinction. |
| High Country News | High Country News 09/15/2004 | Article | The West's Biggest Bully: Radio shock jock John Stokes loves to terrorize environmentalists in Montana's Flathead Valley. But his targets are joining forces - and Stokes is losing ground. Honey, who torched the Hummer? ELF Strikes again. A desalination plant's relaunch may kill Mexican wildlife. Something's rotten in the District of Columbia: Bush's spoils system. |
| High Country News | High Country News 09/01/2003 | Article | Courting the Bomb: The Bush administration's new nuclear bomb factory is looking for a home - and the leaders of Carlsbad, New Mexico, are determined to give it one. Utah Gov. Mike Leavitt called to lead the EPA. Energy companies target Colorado's Roan Plateau. Taking steps toward restraint, one Toyota truck at a time. |
| High Country News | High Country News 08/18/2003 | Article | Where the Antelope (and the Oil Companies) Play: In Wyoming's Upper Green River Basin, gas drillers lock horns with the locals - Brian Maffly. Energy bill is a gift to Big Oil. Workers blow the whistle on a a dirty gold mine. And the outraged shall inherit the earth. |
| High Country News | High Country News 06/09/2004 | Article | How we see the West: From the brink of death to the driver's seat - six writers ponder the West and tell us what they see. After wilderness rollbacks in Utah, the outdoor industry may take its show on the road. Forest Service has big plans for logging in Giant Sequoia National Monument. Kick back with HCN's summer book reviews. |
| High Country News | High Country News 04/26/2004 | Article | Out-Sourced: In its rush to put the public lands into private hands, the Bush administration fires a team of model Forest Service employees. Energy Bill's supporters cash in for the election. Offshore fish farming gets a big boost. Want to save your back yard? Start thinking like a developer. |
| High Country News | High Country News 04/12/2004 | Article | The One-Party West: After two decades under Republican rule, it's time for Western Democrats to move beyond sound-bite platforms. It's lions, not people, that are in danger. 'No Child Left Behind' leaves classroom science in the dust. Down with eco-porn: It's time for environmentalists to get ugly. |
| High Country News | High Country News 03/29/2004 | Article | Who Will Take Over the Ranch?: As a real estate frenzy grips the West, conservationists scramble to save a disappearing landscape - Jon Christensen. Rocket fuel launches war of numbers. Gas drillers prove ranchers and enviros don't have to be enemies at the polls. How is politics supposed to be played? Ask the Republicans. |
| High Country News | High Country News 03/15/2004 | Article | The New Water Czars: A historic water deal could give an impoverished Indian community a path back to its root - turn it into one of the West's next big power brokers. Ranchers reveal their real enemy - big business. It tames the roads - but is it corroding your car? An election-year suggestion for President Bush. |
| High Country News | High Country News 02/16/2004 | Article | Courting Disaster: A coup is underway in the courts - and the results won't be pretty. Park Service wilderness boss resigns in frusteration. A vetrinarian who is changing the West. Sierra Clubbers duke it out over immigration. |
| High Country News | High Country News 02/02/2004 | Article | Mending the Nets: After years of a disastrous free-for-all on the sea, one Oregon fishing community searches for a sustainable future. A new life for immigrant workers - or a glorified temp service? A coppoer phoenix rises in Arizona. Feeding the beast: Taxpayer dollars and Wal-Mart. |
| High Country News | High Country News 01/19/2004 | Article | Coming soon to a Wilderness Near You: The Bush administration pulls the rug out from under two decades of citizen activism. Rev up your engines: Yellowstone's snowmobile saga continues. Readers spar over 'collaboration' on the Owyhee. Guts-and-brains burger? No thanks! |
| Hardin, Garrett | Commons, The | Article | The Tragedy of the Commons explained through Garrett Hardin and Marilynne Robinson… Assembled by Paul Hoornbeek. |
| GYIBC: Greater Yellowstone Interagency Brucellosis Committee | 2003 GYIBC Annual Report | Article | Goal: To protect and sustain the existing free-ranging elk and bison populations in the Greater Yellowstone Area, and protect public interests and economic vitality of the livestock industry in Wyoming, Montana, and Idaho. |
| Friends of the INYO | Jefferey Pine Journal Fall-Winter 2003, Vol.1 Issue 1 | Article | Newsletter of Friends of the INYO: A Tale of Two Creeks: Protecting Birch and Furnace Creeks in the White Mountains. The Last of the Best: The Eastern Sierra Citizens' Wilderness and Wild and Scenic River Proposals. What's in a Name?: Why Friends of the INYO? |
| Forest Guardians | Forest Guardians: Green Roots - Fall 2001, No. 10 | Article | Bioregional Renewal in the Southwest. Our majestic, threatened Rio Grande. |
| Fernlund, Kevin J. | Cold War American West, 1945-1989, The | Article | Essays exploring how the West was transformed by the Cold war. Topics: environment, politics, culture, military industrial complex, religion, counter cultures, race, class, gender, cities, population, Pacific Frontier. Chapter 9: The Cold War as symbol and myth. |
| Ehrlich, Gretel | Solace of Open Spaces, The | Article | Chapter 1: The Solace of Open Spaces. Chapter 2: About Men. |
| Earth First | Earth First - November-December 2000 | Article | No compromise in defense of mother Earth. 20th Anniversary edition. |
| Davis, Mike | Class Struggle in Oz | Article | From The Grit Beneath the Glitter: Tales from the Real Las Vegas.Union struggles, strikes: labor history in Las Vegas. |
| Coward Jr., E Walter | Making Property in the Taos Valleys | Article | How property making has shaped the Taos Valley, Taos County. |
| Christensen, Jon | Build It and the Water Will Come | Article | From The Grit Beneath the Glitter: Tales from the Real Las Vegas.Las Vegas and its water history. |
| Chaloupka, William and R. McGreggor Cawley | Great Wild Hope: Nature, Environmentalism and the Open Secret, The | Article | From In the Nature of Things. Wilderness, nature, natural disasters: the language and discourse of nature. |
| Center for the Rocky Mountain West | Rocky Mountain West's Changing Landscape, The Summer 2000 Vol. 2 No. 1 | Article | Daniel Kemmis' organization: Why Montanans Come Home. Civility in Public Land Management. A New Vision: Collaborative Conservation. Tribal Sovereignty. The Global positioning of Western Canada in the New Economy. Changing Mountain Landscapes in a Changing Climate. |
| Blueribbon Coalition | Blue Ribbon Magazine Sept 2002 | Article | Riding the Shoshone National Trail. BRC and PLC: Saving the American West. BRC Spreads Word of Sept. 15th PWC Ban. BRC General Meeting and Board Elections. |
| Benavides, David | Social Costs of Moving Water in Northern New Mexico | Article | Water and growth in the West |
| Arnold, Ron | Silent Scandal | Article | Chapter 1 From Undue Influence. Wealthy foundations, grant-driven environmental groups, and zeaolous bureaucrats that control your future. |
| Anderson, M. Kat, Michael G. Barbour and Valerie Whitworth | A World of Balance and Plenty | Article | From Contested Eden: California before the Gold Rush. Land, plants, animals, and humans in a pre-European California. |
| 88th Congress | Wilderness Act of 1964 | Article | AN ACT: To establish a National Wilderness Preservation System for the permanent good of the whole people, and for other purposes. |
| National Park Service | Leave No Trace | DVD | The Leave No Trace program builds awareness, appreciation, and respect for the outdoors. Video introduces the LNT principles. 9.5 Minutes |
| Guignard, Lilace Mellin | Field Guide to the Norton Book of Nature Writing, A | Book | National Park Service |
| Fujishin, Randy | Natural Speaker, The | Book | Guide to public speaking. |
| French, Christopher W. | Stylebook and Libel Manual | Book | The journalist's bible: punctuation, libel cases, grammar rules, style, spelling, and usage for over 156,000 terms. Advice for writers. |
| Center of the American West | Atlas of the New West | Book | "Complete with numerous graphs, maps, charts, illustrations and tables explaining what exactly comprises the ""New"" West." |
| Wuerthner, George Bk Mollie Matteson eds. | Welfare Ranching | Book | The subsidized destruction of the American West through ranching. (Oversized.) |
| Zimmerman, Michael E. et al | Environmental Philosophy | Book | From animal rights to radical ecology: recent essays offering philosophical discussions of current environmental thought. |
| Yandle, Bruce | Land Rights | Book | Economics: The 1990s property rights rebellion: a chronicle of the courts' failure to enforce the constitutional protection of property rights. |
| Wolf, Tom | Malpai Borderlands Group: Science, Community, and Collaborative Management- Collaborative Resource Management in the Interior West: Case Study #9 | Book | Published results from: Workshop on Collaborative Management of the Interior West. |
| Western Water Policy Review Advisory Commission | Water in the West: Challenge for the Next Century, June 1998 | Book | Overview of the status of the West's water and the pressures requiring changes in management of that resource. |
| Ward, Chip | Canaries on the Rim | Book | Living downwind in the West: local activism, chemical, environmental fallout. |
| Van de Wetering, Sarah B. | Reintroduction of Grizzly Bears in the Selway-Bitterroot Wilderness of Idaho and Montana - Collaborative Resource Management in the Interior West: Case Study #9 | Book | Published results from: Workshop on Collaborative Management of the Interior West. |
| Swanson, Holly | Set up and Sold Out | Book | Connections between the Communist and Green movements: Communists question the agenda of the Greens. |
| Rivera, Jose A. | Acequia Culture | Book | Conflicts surrounding water, land, and community in the southwest. Highlights legal status of community institutions. Irrigation. |
| Pulido, Laura | Environmentalism and Economic Justice | Book | Chicano Struggles in the Southwest: pesticides, Hispano cooperatives. How minority groups using available resources to improve their social, economic, and environmental conditions. |
| Pezeshki, Chuck | Wild to the Last | Book | Environmental conflict in the Clearwater country. Northern Idaho. Logging. Timber industry. |
| Minteer, Ben A. and Robert E. Manning | Reconstructing Conservation | Book | Finding common ground: reevaluation of classical conservation traditions and its value to contemporary environmentalism. |
| Minteer, Ben A. and Bob Pepperman Taylor | Democracy and the Claims of Nature | Book | Discussing the role of democratic politics in making environmental choices. |
| Liz Claiborne and Art Ortenberg Foundation | View from Airlie, The | Book | Community based conservation in perspective: a narrative sampling of discussions from the Community Based Conservation Workshop held in Airlie, Virginia. |
| Kemmis, Daniel | This Sovereign Land | Book x5 | A new vision for governing the west: a history of federal control and western resentment over public lands. Ideas for a non-paternalistic system of federal administration. |
| Keiter, Robert B. | Keeping Faith with Nature | Book x6 | Ecosystems, democracy, and America's public lands: public land policy, new ecological management ideas, collaborative conservation. Examines the developments which change the way we view public lands. |
| Hawken, Paul, Amory Lovins, and L. Hunter Lovins | Natural Capitalism | Book | Economics: Creating the next industrial revolution: an alternative economic model where successful businesses draw profit from are responsible environmental actions. |
| Gunter, Tara Rae | Wallowa Resources: Beyond Green and Brown -Collaborative Resource Management in the Interior West: Case Study #4 | Book | Published results from: Workshop on Collaborative Management of the Interior West. |
| Gottlieb, Robert | Environmentalism Unbound | Book | Exploring new pathways for change: proposal of a new strategy for social and environmental change that involves linking environmental justice and pollution prevention. |
| Goodman, Doug Bk Daniel McCool | Contested Landscape | Book | Framing the debate over who should have control over public lands in the West. |
| Dryzek, John S. and David Schlosberg (Eds.) | Debating the Earth | Book | The environmental politics reader: diverse political perspectives on environmental issues. |
| Dryzek, John S. | Politics of the Earth | Book | Environmental discourses: an introduction to ways of thinking about the environment based on how people use the language of environmental issues. |
| Brick, Phillip, Donald Snow, Sarah van de Wetering | Across the Great Divide | Book x3 | The phenomenon of collaboration as a way for westerners to handle environmental challenges. |
| Bellah, Robert N., Richard Madsen, William M. Sullivan, Ann Swidler, and Steven M. Tipton | Habits of the Heart | Book x2 | Individualism and commitment in American life: exploring the traditions Americans use to make sense of themselves and society. |
| Baden, John A. and Donald Snow | Next West, The | Book | Public lands, community, and economy in the American West: essays outlining possible futures for the American West. |
| Abram, David | Spell of the Sensuous, The | Book | Abram draws on stories, philosophies, to reveal the dependence of human cognition on the natural environment. Perception. Foundations of language. |
| Western Shoshone Defense Project | Digging Holes in the Spirit | Handout | Gold mining and the survival of the Western Shoshone nation. |
| Vivian, R. Gwinn Bk Bruce Hilpert | Chaco Handbook, The | Book | Encyclopedic guide to the history and culture surrounding Chaco canyon. |
| Patterson, Alex | Field Guide to Rock Art Symbols of the Greater Southwest | Book | Interpretation of American rock art from Mexico to Utah, California to Colorado. |
| Nabhan, Gary Paul | Desert Smells Like Rain, The | Book | A naturalist in O'odham country: ecology, social, and natural history of the Tohono O'odham people in southern Arizona. |
| Landeen, Dan Bk Allen Pinkham | Salmon and his People | Book | Fish and Fishing in Nez Perce Culture, a Nez Perce guide to Nature, particularly fish. |
| Keyser, James D. | Indian Rock Art of the Columbia Plateau | Book | A reference and guide to questions about petroglyphs and pictographs from British Columbia to Oregon to the continental divide. |
| Hall, Edward T. | West of the Thirties | Book | Discoveries among the Navajo and Hopi: an explanation of the sacredness of Native American life. |
| Griffin-Pierce, Trudy | Native Peoples of the Southwest | Book | Comprehensive look at Native American cultures in the United States: Pueblos, Hopi, Zuni, Pimans, Yaqui, River Yumans, Upland Yumans, Apache, Navajo, Southern Paiute. |
| Cole, Sally J. | Legacy on Stone | Book | Rock art of the Colorado Plateau and Four Corners region. |
| Childs, Craig | Soul of Nowhere | Book | Traversing grace in a rugged land: finding life in places where others fear to tread, tracing history left behind in the form of potshards and other relics. Churchill, Ward |
| Castleton, Kenneth B. | Petroglyphs and Pictographs of Utah Vol. 2 | Book | Utah rock art: The South, Central, West, and Northwest. |
| Castleton, Kenneth B. | Petroglyphs and Pictographs of Utah Vol. 1 | Book | Utah rock art: The East and Northeast. |
| Trimble, Stephen | Sagebrush Ocean, The | Book | A natural history of the Great Basin. (Oversized.) |
| Stokes, William Lee | Geology of Utah | Book | Comprehensive timeline of Utah's geology. |
| Orr, Elizabeth L., William N. Orr, Ewart M. Baldwin | Geology of Oregon (4th Edition) | Book | Comprehensive overview of Oregon's geology. |
| McPhee, John | Basin and Range | Book | A book of journeys through ancient terrains in juxtaposition with travels in the modern world. Tries to develop an understanding of the behavior of the land from eastern California to eastern Utah. |
| Geologic Society of the Oregon Country | Roadside Geology of the Eastern Sierra Region | Book | Bodie, Mono Lake, Yosemite, June Lake, Devil's Postpile, Convict Lake, White Mountains. |
| Fillmore, Robert | Geology of the Parks, Monuments, and Wildlands of Southern Utah | Book | Explanations of the geologic features of Capital Reef, Bryce Canyon, Zion, and Grand Staircase-Escalante Monument. |
| Childs, Craig | Secret Knowledge of Water, The | Book | Treks through arid lands in search of water. |
| Bishop, Ellen Morris | In Search of Ancient Oregon | Book | Pictorial explanation of Oregon's geological past and present. |
| Baars, Donald L. | Colorado Plateau, The | Book | Geology of red rock and canyon country of the Four Corners area. |
| Austin, Mary | Land of Little Rain, The | Book | Lyrical tribute to the desert, published 1903. |
| Aton, James M. Bk Robert S. McPherson | River Flowing from the Sunrise | Book | An environmental history of the lower San Juan (Utah). |
| Stegner, Wallace | Where the Bluebird Sings to the Lemonade Springs | Book | 16 Essays: stories of Stegner's migration through the boom and bust towns of the West in the early 20th century. |
| Spragg, Mark | Where Rivers Change Direction | Book | Coming of age memoir about Wyoming, wind, dust, hunting, loneliness… |
| Russell, Sharman Apt | Songs of the Fluteplayer | Book | Russell's experiences trying to create a life for herself in the Southwestern desert. |
| nasdijj | blood runs like a river through my dreams, the | Book | Native American life in the Southwest |
| Kittredge, William | Hole in the Sky | Book | The story of a pioneer ranching family's decline and fall; the end of a way of life. |
| watchings, fish-stalkings, visions, songs and prayers refracting light, from living rivers, in the age of the industrial dark. | |||
| Duncan, David James | My Story as Told by Water | Book | Confessions, Druidic rants, reflections, bird- |
| Blunt, Judy | Breaking Clean | Book | Narrative describing growing up in a ranching family and Blunt's desire to escape that culture. |
| Walka, Ann Weiler | Walking the Unknown River | Book | Travels in Escalante Country: essays and poetry investigating the Escalante, the hidden heart of the Colorado Plateau. |
| Tapahonso, Luci L. | Saani Dahataal, the Women are Singing | Book | Memories of Shiprock, New Mexico. Navajo Indians. |
| Ortiz, Simon J. | Out There Somewhere | Book | Native American poetry from New Mexico. Acoma Indians. |
| Olds, Sharon | Gold Cell, The | Book | American poetry. |
| Merrill, Christopher (Ed.) | Forgotten Language, The | Book | Contemporary poets and nature. |
| Hugo, Richard | Lady in Kicking Horse Reservoir, The | Book | Hugo (1923-1982) born and raised in White Center, Washington. World War II veteran. Director of creative writing at U. of Montana. |
| Herrera, Juan Felipe | Border Crosser with a Lamborghini Dream | Book | Mexican Americans-Poetry. |
| Harjo, Joy | In Mad Love and War | Book | Poems of nature and humanity in the West. |
| Gish, Robert Franklin | Beyond Bounds | Book | Cross cultural essays on Anglo, American Indian, and Chicano literature. |
| Galvin, James | Meadow, The | Book | The hundred year history of a meadow and the seasons, wildlife, and people that visit it. |
| Berryman, John | Dream Songs, The | Book | Awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1965. |
| Abbey, Edward | Earth Apples | Book | The poetry of Ed Abbey, edited by David Petersen. |
| Abbey, Edward | Best of Edward Abbey | Book | Thirty one selections from the author's collected works. |
| Lindsay, Joe | Up Shit Creek | Book | Horrifyingly true wilderness toilet misadventures. |
| Zinn, Howard | People's History of the United States | Book | A an insightful look into the history of the United States through different perspectives. |
| Worster, Donald | River Running West, A | Book | The life of John Wesley Powell. |
| Wilson, Chris Bk David Kammer | La Tierra Amarilla | Book | History, architecture, and cultural landscape of a poor and obscure region of New Mexico. |
| Stone-Manning, Tracy Bk Emily Miller | River We Carry With Us, The | Book | Selected works from two centuries of writing from the Clark Fork basin. |
| Stegner, Wallace | Beyond the Hundredth Meridian | Book | John Wesley Powell and the second opening of the West: the successes and frustrations of Powell and his understanding of the American West. |
| Rothman, Hal | Neon Metropolis | Book x6 | How Las Vegas started the 21st century: Las Vegas as the quintessential city of the future. |
| Meloy, Ellen | Last Cheater's Waltz, The | Book x2 | Beauty and Violence in the Desert Southwest: Cultural history, nuclear/ toxic waste, meditations on the Southwest. |
| Limerick, Patricia Nelson | Something in the Soil | Book | How the history of the American West influences the growth and development of the modern West. |
| Hevly, Bruce and John M. Findlay | Atomic West, The | Book | The history of atomic energy and nuclear testing and its impact in the allegedly empty expanses of the American West. Houghton, Samuel G. |
| Farquhar, Francis P. | History of the Sierra Nevada | Book | Illustrated history of the Sierra Nevada mountains and the surrounding regions. |
| Egan, Timothy | Lasso the Wind | Book x2 | Travel writing, historical reflection, and polemic, a study of the West: how it became what it is and where it's going. |
| Ebright, Malcolm | Land Grants and Lawsuits in Northern New Mexico | Book | The history of New Mexico's land grants from Spain and Mexico to present-day land and water lawsuits. Property rights. |
| Decker, Peter R. | Old Fences, New Neighbors | Book | Isolated Ouray County, Colorado--how a small, rural community is dealing with new visitors and changes in the West. |
| deBuys, William | Enchantment and Exploitation | Book | Human history of the Sangre de Cristo mountains of Northern New Mexico. |
| Cronon, William (Ed.) | Uncommon Ground | Book | Rethinking the human place in nature: legislating humans out of wilderness is no solution to environmental problems. Essays reassess the environmental agenda. |
| Belew, Ellie | About Wallowa County | Book | People, places, images from Wallowa County, Oregon. |
| Ambrose, Stephen E. | Undaunted Courage | Book | Lewis, Jefferson, and the opening of the American west. |
| Parent, Laurence | Hiking New Mexico (Falcon Guide) | Book | Ward, Greg |
| Kelsey, Michael R. | River Guide to Canyonlands National Park and Vicinity | Book | Hiking, camping, geology, archaeology and steamboating, cowboy, ranching Bk trail building history. |
| Kelsey, Michael R. | Canyon Hiking Guide to the Colorado Plateau (4th Edition) | Book | Detailed maps and photographs of great hikes in Colorado, Utah, and Arizona. |
| Gersh-Young, Marjorie | Hot Springs Bk Hot Pools of the Southwest | Book | Descriptions and directions to hot springs throughout Arizona, Baja, California, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico, Texas, Utah, and Hawaii. |
| Gersh-Young, Marjorie | Hot Springs Bk Hot Pools of the Northwest | Book | Descriptions and directions to hot springs throughout British Columbia, Alberta, Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Montana, and Wyoming. |
| Foster, Lynn | Adventuring in the California Desert | Book | Sierra Club travel guide to the Great Basin, Mojave, and Colorado Desert regions of California. |
| Silko, Leslie Marmon | Ceremony | Book | WWII veteran returns from Japan to Laguna Pueblo reservation and must cope with feelings of estrangement and alienation. |
| Russell, Sharman Apt | Last Matriarch, The | Book | An account of a clan inhabiting the plains of the Southwest 11,000 years ago. |
| Polanksi, Roman with Jack Nicholson/Faye Dunaway | Chinatown | DVD | Film Noir and water issues in pre-war Southern California, Jack Nicholson stars as detective Jake Gittes. |
| Houston, Pam | Waltzing the Cat | Book | Eleven stories following photographer Lucy O'Rourke as she survives multiple outdoor adventures. |
| Houston, Pam | Cowboys are my Weakness | Book | "Stories about a ""thing for cowboys.""" |
| Sojourner, Mary | bonelight | Book | Ruin and grace in the new southwest: Essays on Sojourner's transition from tourist to defender of Southwest lands and the people who live there. |
| Slovic, Scott | Getting Over the Color Green | Book | Anthology of contemporary nature writers, fiction and nonfiction, all celebrating the unique vitality and complexity of the southwest, proving that there is more to nature than the color green. |
| Peavey, Diane Josephy | Bitterbrush Country | Book | Living on the edge of the land: seasons of a ranching life. Vignettes of life from the bitterbrush country of Idaho. |
| Meloy, Ellen | Anthropology of Turquoise, The (Autographed) | Book x2 | Meditations on landscape, art, and spirit; a series of essays on the West. |
| Marston, Ed (Ed.) | Reopening the Western Frontier | Book | Selections from High Country News about economics, environmentalism, politics, and the future of the West. |
| Lightman, Alan (Ed.) | Best American Essays | Book | 21 essays from American writers, including Terry Tempest Williams and Wendell Berry. |
| Knight, Richard L., Wendell C. Gilgert, Ed Marston | Ranching West of the 100th Meridian | Book | Rural agriculture in the American West: why ranching matters, testimonies of those involved in preserving the working landscapes of the West. |
| Kittredge, William | Who Owns the West? | Book | Sustained meditation on what it means to be a Westerner today. |
| Kittredge, William | Owning it All | Book | Memoir: Autobiographical essays delving into the myths of land, manhood, and manifest destiny--and their effect on our lives today. |
| Hugo, Richard | Triggering Town, The | Book x5 | Lectures and essays on poetry and writing. |
| High Country News | Living in the Runaway West | Book | "The best of partisan views pulled ""Writers on the Range.""" |
| Hess Jr., Karl Bk John A. Baden | Writers on the Range | Book | Western writers exploring the changes facing the New American West. |
| FREE and Gallatin Writers, Inc. | Liberty and Land Use | Book | Readings concerning property rights, freedom, and land use in the West. |
| Fishtrap, Inc. | Anthology 9 | Book | Short Stories: Creative writing from Growing Up, Fishtrap anthology Winter 1999, and Borders, Fishtrap anthology Summer 1999. |
| Finch, Robert and John Elder | Norton Book of Nature Writing, The | Book | Collected works of classic and contemporary nature writers. |
| Clow, Deborah Bk Donald Snow (Eds.) | Northern Lights | Book | A selection of writing from the finest writers in the American West, from Ed Abbey to Terry Tempest Williams. |
| Brown, Beverly A. | In Timber Country | Book | Short Stories: Working people's stories of environmental conflict and urban flight; Southwest Oregon, logging, Rogue Valley. |
| Berry, Wendell and Norman Wirzba (Ed.) | Art of the Commonplace, The | Book | Twenty one essays offering an agrarian alternative to urban culture. |
| Alexie, Sherman | Toughest Indian in the World, The | Book | Short Stories: Indians we rarely see in literature, depictions of real Indians and their struggles. |
| Whitson, Tom D. et al. | Weeds of the West | Book | Help identifying non-native and invasive species of plants which compete with native plants, crops, and which harm livestock. |
| Whitney, Stephen | Sierra Club Naturalist's Guide: The Sierra Nevada | Book | Guidebook to the natural history and ecology of the Sierra Nevada in four zones: the western foothills, the forest belt, the alpine zone, and the pinyon-sagebrush zone. |
| Whitney, Stephen | Audubon Society Nature Guides: Western Forests | Book | Fully illustrated with color photographs of trees, wildflowers, birds, mammals, and insects of North American Western forests. From Alaska to California and the Rockies. |
| Stubbendieck, James, et al. | North American Range Plants | Book | Field guide to all things grassland/prairie. Fully illustrated. |
| Sibley, David Allen | Sibley Field Guide to Birds of Western North America, The | Book | 703 bird species, 4,600 illustrations. |
| Sayre, Nathan F. | New Ranch Handbook: A Guide to Restoring Western Rangelands | Book | Progressive, environmentally innovative ways to conduct ranching make conservation and ranching compatible. |
| Russell, Sharman Apt | Anatomy of a Rose | Book | The secret lives of flowers: the science behind how flowers evolve, survive and heal. |
| Miller, Millie | Sierra: The Mountain Flower Book | Book | Pocket-guide to sierra plants and wild flowers. National Audubon Society |
| MacMahon, James A. | Deserts | Book | Fully illustrated with color photographs of wildflowers, birds, reptiles, insects, and natural wonders of North American deserts from Oregon to Mexico. |
| Larson, Peggy | Sierra Club Naturalist's Guide: The Deserts of the Southwest | Book | Field guide describing the Great Basin, Mohave, Chihuahuan, and Sonoran Deserts. |
| Johnson, Charles Grier Jr. | Common Plants of the Inland Pacific Northwest | Book | Handy reference for identifying vascular plants in the intermountain northwest. Contains important and common plants encountered in the forests, shrublands and grasslands between the cascades and northern Rockies. |
| Jenson, Edward C. and Charles R. Ross | Trees to Know in Oregon | Book | Simple, bare-bones guide to Oregon trees. |
| Imhoff, Daniel | Farming with the Wild | Book | Enhancing biodiversity on farms and ranches; a new vision for conservation-based agriculture. |
| Halfpenny, James C. | Scats and Tracks of the Desert Southwest | Book | Field guide to the signs of 70 wildlife species. |
| Butler, Tom (Ed.) | Wild Earth | Book | Wild ideas for a world out of balance: pieces from the first ten years of the conservation journal Wild Earth. |
| Brown, David E. (Ed.) | Biotic Communities: Southwestern United States and Northwestern Mexico | Book | Catalogs and defines biotic communities according to climate, physiognomy, distribution, dominant and common plant species, and characteristic vertebrates. Photographs and appendix included. |
| Allaby, Michael | Oxford Dictionary of Ecology | Book | Comprehensive and authoritative guide to ecological terminology. 5,000+ entries. |
| deBuys, William Bk Alix Harris | River of Traps | Book | The meeting of Hispanic and Anglo cultures in the Sangre de Cristo mountains of New Mexico on the Rio de las Trampas. |
| Crawford, Stanley | Mayordomo | Book | Chronicle of an Acequia in Northern New Mexico. |
| Anzaldua, Gloria | Borderlands: The New Mestiza | Book | Psychological, sexual, spiritual, and physical borderlands. Borders, class, boundaries, women's studies. |
| Reynolds, Deon Bk Jon Christensen | Nevada | Book | Photos of Nevada by Reynolds, essay by Christensen. (Oversized) |
| Obata, Chiura | Topaz Moon | Book | Art of the Japanese internment during WWII. |
| Howarth, Sam Bk Enrique R. Lamadrid | Pilgrimage to Chimayo | Book | Hispanic Catholicism and the journey of Pilgrims to the Santuario de Chimayo--the most popular religious pilgrimage in North America. |