High Country News

Protecting wildlife corridors remains more theory than practice

There's a growing understanding of the scientific importance of wildlife migration corridors, but protecting them is a huge political challenge.

by Mary Ellen Hannibal, Dec 29, 2011
Imperfect Pasture: A Century of Change at the National Elk Refuge in Jackson Hole, Wyoming

In Imperfect Pasture, Bruce Smith, Eric Cole and David Dobkin examine the conservation successes – and failures – of the National Elk Refuge near Jackson, Wyo.

by Staff, Nov 14, 2005
In the field with a Montana couple hunting wolves

Amid bitter controversy over allowing hunters and trappers to reduce wolf populations, a Montana couple is dedicated to their hunt.

by Neil LaRubbio, May 17, 2013
Safe crossing

Traffic engineers work with biologists to protect both wildlife and motorists on hazardous highways.

by Peter Aleshire, Nov 12, 2007
Canis fiasco

A chaotic effort to restore Mexican wolves in New Mexico and a problem with too many elk in Colorado are two facets of the same problem: Our propensity to manage nature in very unnatural ways.

by Jonathan Thompson, Dec 24, 2007
Feeding time

Will Rounds, who was once a very squeamish vegetarian, describes hacking apart the body of an elk to feed wolves at Mission:Wolf.

by Will Rounds, Apr 28, 2008
A eulogy for the West that was

In Requiem for the West, Roger Brown laments the loss of soul and solitude in the small mountain towns of the Colorado Rockies

by Paul Anderson, Jan 23, 2006
Confessions of an off-road outlaw

A hunter who once tore through the woods on his ORV rethinks his ways after he realizes that he’s scaring off wildlife

by Garrett VeneKlasen, Nov 06, 2009
The squeal of silence

Time spent alone in a cabin in the wild reminds a writer that silence is more than the absence of noise.

by Charles Goodrich, Feb 11, 2010
Ode to a public lands experiment

It may have lovely photographs, but Valles Caldera: A Vision for New Mexico’s National Reserve is much more than just another coffee-table book.

by Laura Paskus, Feb 19, 2007