Special Report: The Wayward West
There's a mutiny taking place beyond the 98th meridian. County governments are telling Uncle Sam to get out or get shot. Brown legislators are looking to gut the nation's environmental laws. And Wise Use groups are an increasingly angry and powerful horde. What's the West so worked up about? And should the rest of America cower, shrug, or call in the National Guard?

With Liberty and Firepower for All
In Catron Country, New Mexico, and elsewhere throughout the West, citizens have mobilized to protect a vanishing way of life, laying claim to public lands and telling those who oppose them to get out--or else.
By Mark Dowie

Browning up the Neighborhood
The grassroots troops of anti-environmentalism are gaining ground--and, of course, the extraction rights to go with it. Ten Wise Use groups at the vanguard of a big stampede.
By Jon Christensen

It Came from the Outback
In their first year in charge of the trough, Alaska's Don Young and his western congressional cohorts have been trying to gorge themselves on our nation's environmental laws--and they're not done yet.
By Weston Kosova

We're Mad, Too, Darn It!
Trounced but not out, can environmentalists get back in the fight? A few words with Dave Foreman, Earth First! rabble-rouser cum Sierra Clubber.
By Margaret Kriz