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  • The view from above

    High Country News prides itself on keeping close to the ground, but for this special issue, we look at the energy boom in the West from a global perspective

    by Greg Hanscom, Dec 12, 2005

  • Dear friends

    Welcome, Lillian Jane Lawrence (Laura Paskus’ daughter); Jonathan Thompson new HCN editor; HCN intern program; William Kent of Moab dies; photo caption correction

    by Jodi Peterson, Feb 20, 2006

  • I fell into a burning ring of fire

    There’s nothing like a campfire to soothe and lift the soul

    by Laura Paskus, Dec 25, 2006
  • Deconstructing dueling claims

    Deconstructing dueling claims

    Writer Laura Paskus talks about the battle over New Mexico's Mount Taylor.

    by Marty Durlin, Dec 02, 2009
  • Viva la independent press!

    Viva la independent press!

    High Country News is nominated for two Utne Independent Press awards; Laura Paskus wins award from Society of Professional Journalists; Nathan Rice to be HCN’s next editorial fellow; correction and clarification.

    by Jodi Peterson , May 15, 2011

  • Dear friends

    Matt Jenkins leaves the HCN office to become California-Great Basin correspondent; Western Slope Environmental Resource Conference and North Fork River Improvement Association hold annual meetings; visitors; "secretary" Bruce Babbitt

    by Greg Hanscom, Betsy Marston, Michelle Nijhuis and Jodi Peterson, Apr 17, 2006

  • Making room for wolves

    In the anthology Comeback Wolves, 50 Western writers talk about the complex emotional – and practical – responses evoked by the return of this iconic predator

    by Matt Jenkins, Jun 12, 2006

  • How many nuclear bombs do we need?

    Laura Paskus meets a woman who survived Hiroshima and now works as an anti-nuclear activist.

    by Laura Paskus, Oct 22, 2007

  • Generation gap

    The environmental laws designed to protect nature for future generations may not survive this generation, unless things change

    by Laura Paskus, Feb 02, 2004

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