High Country News

Big Sky country, bigger abuse

Tragic tales of animal abuse and neglect stain the beauty of the Last Best Place.

by Wendy Beye, May 12, 2011
Even four-footed employees deserve to retire

Susan Ives tells the story of Edith Ann, a faithful horse that narrowly escaped euthanasia when the Park Service decided she was too old and gimpy to be of further use.

by Susan Ives, Nov 12, 2007
Room for everyone

A "hodgepodge of humanity" visits Mojave desert hot springs -- and there's room enough for all.

by Brad Monsma, Dec 05, 2010
Backcountry Ranger

Backcountry seasonal ranger Tony Prendergast has spent much of the past six summers working in western Colorado’s Gunnison National Forest

by JT Thomas, Dec 26, 2005
Got warriors?

On Wyoming’s Wind River Reservation, Stanford Addison – a quadriplegic Northern Arapaho horse gentler – helps Indian boys through their difficult teenage years.

by Lisa Jones , Apr 29, 2009
Fury

The death of her old horse, Fury, leads a northern Colorado writer to think about the changing aspects – and the unchanging quirkiness – of her old hometowns of Bellvue and LaPorte

by Laura Pritchett, Jun 27, 2005
Heard around the West

The Gladstone Kibosh, EnvironGentle’s ungentle T-shirts; bicyclists meet baby horse; dog-of-honor at the wedding; Judge Royce Lamberth vs. the Interior Department’s incompetence; "Nothing" becomes something in Telluride

by Betsy Marston, Aug 08, 2005
Advice from a horse

An HCN intern goes for a backcountry horse ride, and learns that while sharing trails can be a challenge, the payoff is worth it.

by Eve Rickert, Jun 15, 2007
Even four-footed employees deserve to retire

Susan Ives tells the story of Edith Ann, a faithful horse that narrowly escaped euthanasia when the Park Service decided she was too old and gimpy to be of further use.

by Susan Ives, Nov 12, 2007
Let me tell you about a real winter

A Wyoming rancher remembers the winter of 1979 -- what it was like tending cattle at 52 below zero.

by Mary Flitner, Feb 20, 2011