High Country News

Retirees join environmentalists in fighting Arizona copper mine

The conservative, golf-playing retirees of Queen Valley, Ariz., are determined to stop a giant copper mine.

by Kari Lydersen, May 18, 2012
Greens need to occupy the Occupy movement

Today's activists need to get more involved in protesting the environmental profiteering that is destroying our planet.

by Tim Lydon, Dec 15, 2011
Painting for progress

Artist Joan Hoffman pours her love of wilderness into her paintings, and uses her art as a way to fight for the environment

by Jennie Lay, Mar 20, 2006
Home on the range

In one Montana family, it's a father-daughter Thanksgiving tradition to do things like build makeshift ramps to help trapped wild animals escape from stock tanks.

by Marian Lyman Kirst, Dec 05, 2011
A citizen activist forces New Mexico's dairies to clean up their act

When a giant dairy proposed building near Jerry Nivens' beloved New Mexico home, the chain-smoking Texas hermit became an activist who organized other locals to fight the industry.

by Stephanie Paige Ogburn, Dec 04, 2011
War on (eco) terror extends to the West

Four people charged with arson in the 1998 Vail ski resort fires in Colorado are among 13 defendants indicted in Oregon and accused of "domestic terrorism."

by Stephanie Paige Ogburn, Jun 26, 2006
Eco-terrorism and the Trial of the Century

The upcoming trial of 11 alleged "eco-terrorists" may not be the Trial of the Century, but it reminds the writer, a longtime activist, of the Boston Tea Party

by Robert Amon, Apr 17, 2006
Dear friends

Katie Lee and other visitors; where do you get your news? farewell, Philip Hyde; notes from readers; missing pages in HCN?

by Jodi Peterson, May 01, 2006
Writing a comment letter? Better make it good

The Bureau of Land Management is tightening its standards on what it considers worthwhile, "substantive" public comments from citizen activists

by Matt Jenkins, Jun 27, 2005
Crossings

If there’s a theme in this summer reading issue, it’s that of crossings, an idea that really hit home when a group of people from Kazakhstan recently spent time at High Country News

by Laura Paskus, Jun 27, 2005