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Jake Bolster reports on Wyoming and the West for Inside Climate News. Previously, he worked as a freelancer, covering climate change, energy and the environment across the U.S. He holds a Master’s in ...

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Colorado College’s annual survey included residents of 8 Western states, the majority of whom identified as politically conservative or moderate.

President Donald Trump and Elon Musk’s efforts to shrink the federal government, launched as the deadly Palisades and Eaton fires burned across Los Angeles, have left the country’s wildland ...

Annie Rosenthal is the Virginia Spencer Davis fellow at High Country News, reporting on rural communities, agriculture, migration and life in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands. Email her at ...

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