High Country News

Mining Reform: Deja vu again and again

A 138-year-old law blocks serious hardrock mining reform, despite the untiring work of activists.

by Paul Larmer, Nov 21, 2010
Planting seeds for preservation

In Cities in the Wilderness, former Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt makes an eloquent argument for more enlightened federal land-use planning

by Gary Wockner, Jan 23, 2006
How to survive the lean times

Her brush with homelessness gives Jane Goetze the background to offer some wry advice.

by Jane Goetze, Dec 01, 2008
A celebration of Cascadia: A review of Open Spaces: Voices from the Northwest

Open Spaces: Voices from the Northwest doesn't quite work as an anthology, but it features some intimate and thoughtful writing about the Pacific Northwest.

by Gretchen Legler, Dec 11, 2011
The best-laid plans

It’s high time Arizona realized it’s a desert, and has to share the Colorado River with six other dry Western states

by Greg Hanscom, Mar 21, 2005
The life of an unsung Western water diplomat

Silver Fox of the Rockies by Daniel Tyler tells the story of Delphus E. Carpenter, who sought peaceful resolutions to Western water problems, and helped create the 1922 Colorado River Compact

by Joshua Zaffos, Mar 21, 2005
New grazing rules ride on doctored science

The Bureau of Land Management rewrote a scientific report critical of its new grazing rules, and two veteran scientists have quit the agency in protest

by Tony Davis, Jul 25, 2005
A chance to do it right in the West

Hoping for a Western Interior secretary who practices the politics of collaboration.

by Daniel Kemmis, Nov 26, 2008
Good work in Washington

The Bush administration deserves credit for its "Water 2025" initiative, which provided grants that have helped the Deschutes River Conservancy and the Central Oregon Irrigation District begin restoring Oregon’s Deschutes River

by Greg Hanscom, Oct 16, 2006
A decade of difficult questions

Outgoing High Country News editor Greg Hanscom muses on the stories and issues the paper has covered in the 10 years he’s been with it

by Greg Hanscom, Nov 13, 2006