Southeast county in Utah has a radioactive target on its back

By Zak Podmore

In the early 1980s, southeast Utah was targeted as a potential dump site for high-level nuclear waste, the kind that…

More

What reporting on three city councils teaches me

By Marty Durlin

For the past year and a half, I’ve been reporting weekly on municipal government in three rural Western Colorado towns….

More

What Western writers cared about during a tumultuous year

By Betsy Marston

Once the Trump administration took over the reins of government last year, attacks on public land came fast and furious….

More

Former Senator Senator Ben Nighthorse Campbell knew how to horse trade

By Dave Marston

Ben Nighthorse Campbell, the former Colorado U.S. senator and congressman who served first as a Democrat and then as a…

More
Photography | See More
Photo by AJ Nash
Photograph by Allen Best, outside of Akron, CO
Photo by Intricate Explorer, Via Unsplash
Calving sediment below Clay Hills, UT San Juan River, courtesy Chad Niehaus

Focusing on natural resources and public lands in the West

Writers on the Range provides articles about the economic, cultural and legislative change taking place in the west with focus on natural resources and public lands. Broadly our topics are public lands, outdoor recreation, water and economic institutions serving the west.

Our Mission

Writers on the Range needs your support

Help us support journalists and newspapers across the West. Writers on the Range provides editorial to Western newspapers in the intermountain west. Our topics include public lands, outdoor recreation, water and economic institutions serving the west. Our writers are westerners from 10 states with diverse opinions and insight. As a 501c3 corporation as defined and approved by the IRS, donations to Writers on the Range are tax deductible.

Support Us

Writers and photographers wanted

We are looking for diverse writers, writers of color, women and young people. The West needs diverse voices. Topics should be broad enough for Western Readers across our intermountain territory of Montana, Idaho, New Mexico, Arizona, Colorado, Utah, Nevada, and Wyoming. Our readers also care about the Great Plains and the eastern parts of California, Oregon, and Washington.

Submit Content
What others are saying See More

I am so glad to hear that Writers on the Range is returning! I gladly used their content at a paper in Wyoming, and I would gratefully subscribe to it, especially as a free service. I love how it brings thoughtful commentary on topics of particular interest to our readers.

Trudy Balcom, Editor
White Mountain Independent, WMICentral.com

Subscribe to our Newsletter

Once a week you’ll receive an email with a link to our weekly column along with profiles of our writers, beside quirky photos submitted from folks like you. Don’t worry we won’t sell our list or bombard you with daily mail.