High Country News

Handling griz: How much is enough?

Increasing numbers of the West’s grizzly bears wear radio collars, and some environmentalists question the necessity of the practice

by Colleen O'Brien and Ray Ring, Oct 17, 2005
Homeland Security gets to bypass environmental laws

Homeland Security Chief Michael Chertoff is using the recently passed Real ID Act to bypass environmental, safety and labor laws in order to build a giant border fence south of San Diego

by Michelle Burkhart, Oct 31, 2005
Heard around the West

"Endangered Feces" T-shirts; troublesome T-shirts on airlines; renaming places in Oregon; outhouse races in Reno; rent-a-cave in Idaho; Parade of Homes vs. Parade of Wealth in Jackson

by Betsy Marston, Oct 31, 2005
In the field with a Montana couple hunting wolves

Amid bitter controversy over allowing hunters and trappers to reduce wolf populations, a Montana couple is dedicated to their hunt.

by Neil LaRubbio, May 17, 2013
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
Frack forward

Wyoming's tough new hydraulic fracturing rules are meant to keep federal regulators at bay.

by Cally Carswell, Oct 05, 2010
Audio: High Country Views, episode 4

Judith Lewis, Jonathan Thompson and Cally Carswell talk mining politics. Plus, an audio postcard from a California ghost town inhabited by pikas.

by Cally Carswell, Apr 22, 2010
Canis fiasco

A chaotic effort to restore Mexican wolves in New Mexico and a problem with too many elk in Colorado are two facets of the same problem: Our propensity to manage nature in very unnatural ways.

by Jonathan Thompson, Dec 24, 2007
Two weeks in the West

Greater sage grouse gets another shot at protection; Colorado River water users ratify new plan; news from around the West; a high-tech “virtual fence” on the U.S.-Mexico border runs into problems.

by Jonathan Thompson, Dec 24, 2007
The troubled times of the Mexican wolf

A timeline reveals the complicated, ill-fated story of the Mexican wolf in New Mexico.

by Staff, Dec 24, 2007