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
Stitching habitat together across public and private lands

Migrating animals can't read "no trespassing" signs, so it’s up to human beings to try to find ways to connect wildlife corridors that crisscross public and privately owned lands.

by Cally Carswell, Dec 25, 2011
Critter contraceptives

Scientists are working on effective birth control methods for wild animals.

by Emilene Ostlind, Apr 17, 2011
In search of greener pastures

Laina Corazon Coit and her brother, Rick Chase, want to create Colorado’s first natural burial ground and wildlife refuge on the eastern prairie

by Jennie Lay, Oct 30, 2006
Bison are flourishing, but not always in the right place

Bison have no business roaming the North Rim of the Grand Canyon.

by Glenn Rink, Jul 20, 2010
Wildlife win one in Yellowstone

The National Wildlife Federation negotiates two important land deals with ranchers in the Yellowstone area, ending grazing on Horse Butte and protecting local bison

by Ray Ring, Dec 22, 2003
Why the buffalo can't roam

GAO report criticizes Yellowstone bison plan

by Evelyn Schlatter, Apr 08, 2008
Dear friends

HCN now has a blog; HCN’s Tucson board meeting and potluck; correction and clarification

by Paul Larmer and Jodi Peterson, Mar 06, 2006
Time for a little outrage

It’s time for hunters to rally on behalf of wild lands and wild animals – beginning with the bison in Yellowstone

by Ray Ring, Feb 06, 2006
Not just any book about the grasslands

In his serious and poetic first book, Not Just Any Land, John Price takes a literary journey into the heart of America’s grasslands

by Kirk Zebolsky, Dec 12, 2005