High Country News

Planning for uncertainty

A Phoenix symposium on dealing with drought and global warming echoes the larger uncertainties facing public-land and national park managers throughout the West.

by Paul Larmer, Feb 04, 2008
Remembering our wildness

In The Animal Dialogues, Colorado author Craig Childs writes of chance encounters with wild animals.

by Sarah Gilman, Mar 17, 2008
Leave it alone

Archaeology is, or at least ought to be, about more than just picking up artifacts to gather dust on the shelves of crowded museum storerooms.

by Jonathan Thompson, Apr 28, 2008
"Shoot locally"

First annual Paonia Film Festival; Pronghorn Passage; Craig Childs wins Desert Writers Award; correction.

by Jodi Peterson , May 01, 2011
The power of the lowly dirt particle

The reservoirs of the West are a far cry from Eastern lakes, especially when it comes to the silt they carry.

by Paul Larmer, Mar 17, 2011
Waiting with bated breath

HCN is nominated for an Utne Independent Media award; some of the magazine's contributors are nominated for other honors; corrections

by Jodi Peterson, Apr 15, 2013
Head games in the hot, hot desert

In The Way Out, Craig Childs tells the true story of how he and a friend explored a Utah desert and, at the same time, journeyed through their own memories

by Lee Ross, Jul 25, 2005
Exodus

The abandonment of the American Southwest by the Anasazi 700 years ago – and the destruction of New Orleans by Hurricane Katrina today – show that all civilizations are fragile, complex, and ultimately at the mercy of the climate

by Greg Hanscom, Oct 03, 2005
The West’s dams share a dirty secret

The reservoirs of the West are a far cry from Eastern lakes, especially when it comes to the silt they carry.

by Paul Larmer, Apr 25, 2011
The place where you are

These days, most Westerners aren't born. We're made.

by Jodi Peterson, Oct 14, 2012