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  • Let the EPA finish its work in Pavillion, Wyoming

    Let the EPA finish its work in Pavillion, Wyoming

    The gas industry and its political partners are going to great lengths to try to derail and discredit an EPA report that blames Pavillion, Wyoming’s polluted water on hydraulic fracking.

    by John Fenton, Jan 24, 2012
  • Is there a way through the West's bitter wild horse wars?

    Is there a way through the West's bitter wild horse wars?

    Activists push compromise as the controversial federal mustang management program reaches a breaking point, with more horses in captivity than roam the range.

    by Dave Philipps, Nov 19, 2012
  • Finally, a burger with a taste of place

    Finally, a burger with a taste of place

    Next time you visit the Grand Canyon, stop in Flagstaff for a delicious Diablo burger made from locally raised organic beef.

    by Gary Paul Nabham, Jun 22, 2009
  • Renewing a battered land

    Renewing a battered land

    Richard Manning looks at the prairie and considers its future in Rewilding the West: Restoration in a Prairie Landscape.

    by Kyle Boelte, Apr 27, 2009
  • Billboard battles don't help much

    Billboard battles don't help much

    Extreme rhetoric about wolves, whether pro or con, doesn't help solve the problems around the issue.

    by Mitch Wolgamott, Aug 31, 2011
  • Living with wolves takes some practice

    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

  • Tractor politicking

    High Country News talks to Dennis McDonald, the Montana rancher who also leads the state’s Democratic Party.

    by Ray Ring, Nov 12, 2007

  • Last chance for the Lobo

    Mexican Wolves in Catron County, New Mexico struggle to survive in the midst of underfunding, inbreeding, and hostile local ranchers.

    by John Dougherty, Dec 24, 2007

  • A Montana rancher stands his ground against subdivision

    An 86-year-old lifelong rancher named Vernon Gliko is donating his entire 1,800-acre Montana ranch as a conservation easement.

    by Ray Sikorski, Apr 14, 2008

  • The fur is flying

    Ranchers file a lawsuit in Oregon -- to stop cougar killing.

    by Evelyn Schlatter, Feb 08, 2008
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