High Country News

Anatomy of a disaster

The floods plaguing the U.S. today are largely the result of the dam-building flurry that began about 60 years ago under the Pick-Sloan Plan.

by Paul VanDevelder, May 25, 2011
Can pallid sturgeon hang on in the overworked Missouri River?

In the dam-locked Upper Missouri, scientists search for signs that the ancient species hasn't reached the end of its line.

by Marian Lyman Kirst, Sep 23, 2012
Extinction – by the clock

Montana’s two varieties of sturgeon, the white and the pallid, have just been given an expiration date, and human beings should be paying more attention to this extinction

by Ben Long, Sep 29, 2003
Follow-up

Fish and Wildlife Service biologists in talks with Army Corps over Missouri River; Wyoming rancher Frank Robbins holds protest rally; "Volunteer Grazing Permit Buying Act" in Congress; and Interior ordered to pay tribes $2 million to make up for drilling

by Laura Paskus, Nov 24, 2003
Pallid's PR problem

Why don't pallid sturgeon get more love?

by Marian Lyman Kirst, Sep 16, 2012
Rolling on the rivers

The essays in Page Stegner’s Adios Amigos celebrate the fragile beauty of Western rivers and the lives of the artists and explorers who journeyed down them.

by Janice Gable Bashman, Apr 28, 2008
The Bakken oil play spurs a booming business -- in water

Hydraulic fracturing's extraordinary appetite for water is creating friction between North Dakota's farmers and drillers.

by Nicholas Kusnetz, Aug 06, 2012

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