High Country News

Homeland Security gets to bypass environmental laws

Homeland Security Chief Michael Chertoff is using the recently passed Real ID Act to bypass environmental, safety and labor laws in order to build a giant border fence south of San Diego

by Michelle Burkhart, Oct 31, 2005
Hidden in plain sight: A review of The American Wall

In the two massive volumes of The American Wall, French photographer Maurice Sherif works with anthropologists, activists and writers to explore the border fence that separates the U.S. from Mexico.

by Terray Sylvester, Jun 19, 2012
Security vs. sovereignty

American Indians who use tribal I.D. cards face harassment when they try to cross the border between the U.S. and Canada.

by Krista J. Kapralos, Feb 26, 2009
Heard Around the West

No smoking onstage in Colorado; a really rotten trick; wheat field in the Big Apple; it’s hard to charge a dead man with a crime; Brian Schweitzer and Montana just say no to Homeland Security.

by Betsy Marston, Apr 14, 2008
Jaguar's road to recovery unmapped

U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service says a recovery plan for the big cat "would not advance conservation"

by Francisco Tharp, Apr 16, 2008
The Latest Bounce

Who rewrote Park Service’s management policies?; judge permits building of U.S.-Mexico border fence; Superintendent David Hunsaker leaves Utah’s Escalante National Monument; judge says Forest Service blew his ruling out of proportion

by Jodi Peterson, Dec 26, 2005
No backup on the Northern border

Sheriff Donna Matoon and her 11 overworked deputies patrol Montana's Toole County and keep an eye on the Canadian border.

by Gabriel Furshong, Feb 13, 2009
Cat Fight on the Border

Plans to fence as much as possible of the U.S.-Mexico border could derail the return of rare jaguars to the Southwest.

by Jeremy Voas, Oct 15, 2007
The wall along our southern border is a joke

Not only is the border fence a failure at its job; it’s also proving an environmental disaster.

by Scott Nicol, Apr 19, 2011
Running the gantlet of Homeland Security

Ross Putnam runs afoul of Homeland Security at the Albuquerque Airport.

by Ross Putnam, Feb 04, 2008