High Country News

Changing of the editorial guard

After Editor in Chief Jonathan Thompson leaves, High Country News will be led by Jodi Peterson, Ray Ring and Sarah Gilman; former intern Michael Moss wins a Pulitzer.

by Paul Larmer and Jodi Peterson, May 09, 2010
Heard around the West

Sex-change doctor dies; rainy wit from Oregon; "Meth Made Easy" makes newspaper’s life hard; world’s biggest solar project slated for Nevada; GPS locates bank robbers

by Betsy Marston, Mar 06, 2006
Did the Park Service bow to pressure from Coca Cola on its bottle ban?

A former Grand Canyon National Park superintendent believes that corporate pressure may have undermined a proposed ban on disposable water bottles in the park.

by Nathan Rice, Dec 11, 2011
They should shoot horses, shouldn't they?

Wild horses are not native to the West, and they do not deserve our protection

by Ted Williams, Dec 11, 2006
The challenge of climate-change denial

Skeptics, even irrational ones, probably once had a useful evolutionary role to play in human communities, but in the face of rapid climate change, they are becoming a fatal obstacle

by Auden Schendler, May 14, 2007
Dear Friends

Life for interns after HCN; tell us what you think in our annual survey.

by Jodi Peterson, Apr 16, 2007
The charm of a dying place

A South Dakota native ponders the lure of the Dying Plains

by Joshua Garrett-Davis, Mar 15, 2004

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