High Country News

Waiting with bated breath

HCN is nominated for an Utne Independent Media award; some of the magazine's contributors are nominated for other honors; corrections

by Jodi Peterson, Apr 15, 2013
Vagabond writer Craig Childs on 20,000 years of wanderlust

The author traces the paths of peoples that have wandered the earth for centuries, from Alaska to the Southwest.

by Craig Childs, Oct 14, 2012
The place where you are

These days, most Westerners aren't born. We're made.

by Jodi Peterson, Oct 14, 2012
Craig Childs is HCN's latest contributing editor

Craig Childs becomes a contributing editor; High Country News has telephone troubles; former interns Dave Frey and Emilene Ostlind get new jobs; and corrections.

by Jodi Peterson, Feb 19, 2012
Love and loss on a Wyoming ranch: A review of Lime Creek

Lime Creek, Joe Henry's ravishing first work of fiction, is filled with exquisite snapshots of life on a Wyoming ranch.

by Jenny Shank , Dec 25, 2011
Underworld

In a dark, narrow storm drain below the border town of Douglas, Ariz., eight illegal immigrants drowned in the summer of 1997

by Craig Childs, Sep 04, 2006
Prey at the waterhole

The experience of watching a mountain lion is utterly transformed when the watcher realizes he is the one being watched

by Craig Childs, Jul 24, 2006
A very brief conversation with a Jet Fighter

A long solitary hike through an empty, pristine desert is interrupted by a close encounter with an F-16 fighter plane

by Craig Childs, May 01, 2006
"Shoot locally"

First annual Paonia Film Festival; Pronghorn Passage; Craig Childs wins Desert Writers Award; correction.

by Jodi Peterson , May 01, 2011
The West’s dams share a dirty secret

The reservoirs of the West are a far cry from Eastern lakes, especially when it comes to the silt they carry.

by Paul Larmer, Apr 25, 2011