High Country News

Nature fierce and not so pretty

Spend enough time around a bird feeder, and you’ll realize that nature is less like a poetic cartoon and more like a gritty crime novel by someone like Elmore Leonard.

by Dennis Hinkamp, Sep 21, 2011
Alaska ho!

High Country News ventures into the rocky terrain of Alaska's wildlife politics.

by Ray Ring, Feb 20, 2011
Big game tag auctions raise big bucks for Western states

Hunting tag auctions may get too pricey for a lot of Western hunters, but they also raise significant money for conservation projects.

by Marian Lyman Kirst, Apr 15, 2012
Living with wolves takes some practice

An Alaskan wilderness ranger believes humans can co-exist with wolves, despite anti-wolf hysteria in the Northern Rockies.

by Tim Lydon, Nov 30, 2010
Stay in the Hunt

Jim Posewitz believes hunters can help save the planet with their clear-sighted, on-the-ground conservation ethic.

by Nathaniel Hoffman, Mar 17, 2008
A life in the wild

Carter Niemeyer's memoir Wolfer is the entertaining story of a government trapper who loves wildlife - especially serious predators like wolves.

by Hal Herring, Aug 21, 2011
One Way to Save the Wolf? Hunt It.

Montana wildlife managers say the state's first wolf hunt has been a success -- for both the hunters and their prey.

by Hal Herring, May 10, 2010
A Western mystery with an environmental twist: a review of Buried by the Roan

In Mark Stevens' second novel, Allison Coil, a tequila-drinking hunting guide, investigates a mysterious death in a remote landscape much sought after by oil and gas developers.

by Erica Olsen, Aug 07, 2011
The kindness of hunters

After a lifetime of despising and fearing guns, a woman is blindsided by the everyday kindness shown by two hunters.

by Melissa Hart, Nov 08, 2009
A natural and cultural history of the Rocky Mountains

Gary Ferguson explores the history and culture of the backbone of the West in The Great Divide: The Rocky Mountains in the American Mind

by Stephen J. Lyons, Dec 26, 2005