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Hell’s Lookouts: the fire lookouts of the American West

December 3, 2019
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By Owen Baertlein

Another day of work finds me and a partner hundreds of feet above the prairies of Coconino County, sweating and swearing under the desert sun. A fire lookout has called down to the Williams office...

Limbo in Beldangi: The Forgotten Lhotshampa of Bhutan

March 6, 2019
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By Owen Baertlein

Half an hour outside of the small dusty town of Damak in eastern Nepal is a tiny bamboo village. This town is almost thirty years old, yet does not exist on Nepali maps. Its name has a number at the...