Center News and Notes

A professor of history and environmental social sciences at Stanford, Zephyr Frank will transition into his role as Lane Center director on September 1, 2025.

Ash blankets California kelp forests; federal funding cuts imperil environmental protection and economic security in the rural West; Greenpeace heads to court over 2016 pipeline protests; sea otter reintroduction on Oregon’s coast; and other stories…

Long since fish canneries built Southeast Alaska’s signature town, the trade is now being used to attract tourists. Read the latest in our online magazine, & the West.

The California Water Institute and the Maddy Institute are collaborating with Stanford University’s Bill Lane Center for the American West to bring the Eleventh Annual Eccles Family Rural West Conference to Fresno State University on Wednesday, Feb…

In our final podcast on the West in collaboration with Michael Krasny, Greg Sarris, author and chairman of the Federated Indians of Graton Rancheria, discusses the complexities of Native American identity.