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Oct 27 2020 | ... & the West Blog, ... & the Best | Stories Recommended by the ‘... & the West’ Blog
Snow slows spread of wildfires in Colorado; Trump grants California wildfire relief aid; watchdogs push New Mexico to reject federal expansion at nuclear waste dump; Trump administration adds miles to National Trail System; and other environmental reads from around the West.
The Western Literature Association has awarded Surabhi Balachander, '17, the J. Golden Taylor Award for her essay on poet Juan Felipe Herrera
Bill Lane Center partnership with CivicPulse yields new report on patterns of local protest against coronavirus restrictions across the United States
Oct 20 2020 | ... & the Best | Stories Recommended by the ‘... & the West’ Blog
Indigenous fire practices in California; Dam operators and activists join forces; Montana coal prospects dim; Statehood for the Navajo Nation? and more recent environmental reads from around the West.
Oct 12 2020 | Center News, Happenings, Topics of the West
With support from the Lane Center, Stanford students install solar energy panels in a little-known rural western community - Alaska's Inian Islands.
World War II and the West It Wrought
Co-edited by former Lane Center Director David M. Kennedy and Mark Brilliant, the new volume World War II and the West It Wroughtbuilds on our 2017 conference considering the War's impact on our region.
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