Center News and Notes

  • Journalism Fellows
The Media Fellowship underwrites a journalist examining the American West with an $8,500 stipend for three to six months' work. Applications are due October 5, 2026.
  • Journalism Fellows
California left local governments to figure out where to build electric car infrastructure on public streets. Despite the bold climate talk and high demand, a permitting gauntlet and resource constraints have kept San Francisco at two plugs, while…
  • Out West student blog
Izabella Smolnicka-Dos Santos reflects on her internship at Redwing Ranch and her experience capturing the ranch’s daily adventures, long-term lessons, and moments in between.
  • & the Best | Stories Recommended by the ‘... & the West’
  • & the West
Deadly flash floods in the Grand Canyon; why lower basin states are suing over Colorado River cuts; the plan to open 45 million acres of national forest to logging; border wall construction threatens a 4,000-year-old Indigenous mural in Texas; Trump…
  • Out West student blog
During Anna Fisher Lopez's internship at Blue Forest, she took part in work that brings together unlikely partners to better protect forests from wildfires.
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