You are here: home

Did you not find what you were looking for? Try the Advanced Search to refine your search.

Search results

RSS Subscribe to an always-updated RSS feed.

17 items matching your search terms.
Filter the results.
Item type
















New items since



Sort by relevance · date (newest first) · alphabetically

  • Bearable ways to deal with bruins

    Linda Masterson’s new book, Living With Bears, is a good-humored, practical guide to getting along with black bears in the West

    by Ann Bryant, Aug 21, 2006

  • Loss and renewal in the Northwest

    Steven Radosevich writes simple, painful, personal essays about the changing landscape of the Pacific Northwest in his new book, Good Wood: Growth, Loss and Renewal.

    by Annie Dawid, Aug 21, 2006

  • Global Warming's Unlikely Harbingers

    Mountain pine beetles are attacking more forests and more varieties of trees — and thriving at higher elevations than ever before — and some scientists believe global climate change is at the root of the problem

    by Michelle Nijhuis, Jul 19, 2004
  • Just a few moments in Yellowstone

    Just a few moments in Yellowstone

    In a quiet, solitary hour at Yellowstone, nothing seems to happen -- and everything does.

    by Alan Kesselheim, Sep 01, 2011

  • Winter Prayer

    Snowshoeing alone at night in the forest, a woman thinks – and prays – about the friends she loves, and the families they worry about.

    by Kathleen Dean Moore, Feb 05, 2007

  • Searching for the true causes of the West’s fire problems

    Pepper Trail, a wildlife biologist in Oregon, says that this is not the time to log our way out of wildfire threats in the West.

    by Pepper Trail, Aug 11, 2003

  • We keep dousing wildfires with money

    Mitch Friedman says the "Fire Service" will never have enough money to douse wildfires.

    by Mitch Friedman, Aug 18, 2003

  • Help is on the way for the nation’s forest workers

    The Forest Service is making changes that promise to improve the quality of life for the workers who thin and restore the nation's forests.

    by Erin Halcomb, Feb 08, 2007

  • Losing their luster

    This fall, Colorado's iconic aspen are more brown than golden -- the trees are succumbing to a mysterious die-off.

    by James Yearling, Sep 20, 2007

  • Fishering

    In a part of Oregon where everybody says there have been no fishers for years, the writer stumbles across one of these rare and beautiful animals

    by Brian Doyle, Mar 06, 2006
Next 7 items » [1] 2

Email Newsletter

The West in your Inbox

Follow Us

Follow us on Facebook! Follow us on Twitter! Follow our RSS feeds!
Comments Most Commented Most Emailed
  1. In the field with a Montana couple hunting wolves | Amid bitter controversy over allowing hunters and ...
  2. Seeking balance in Oregon's timber country | Can logging towns and old-growth forests both thri...
  3. How right-wing emigrants conquered North Idaho | Conservative transplants largely from California h...
  4. (Still) getting the lead out | When will hunters stop poisoning condors with ammu...
  5. Rants from the hill: Trapping the bees | What to do when 50,000 honeybees hive up inside th...
  1. Don't mess with the Forest Service | How a determined and feisty Forest Service held of...
  2. Sacrificial Land: Will renewable energy devour the Mojave Desert? | An unlikely group of activists is championing a ne...
  3. How right-wing emigrants conquered North Idaho | Conservative transplants largely from California h...
  4. The Forest Service battles placer mining with an obscure law | A little-known 1955 law gives the Forest Service a...
  5. Trappers catch a lot more than wolves | Mountain lions, eagles, bobcats, geese and domesti...
Subscriber Alert
HCN Classifieds
 
© 2013 High Country News, all rights reserved. | privacy policy | terms of use | powered by Plone | site by Groundwire | design by Ryan Foster

HCN Logo High Country News in your inbox!


Sign up now to receive our weekly email newsletter!

• The best weekly collection of Western environmental news

• An at-a-glance look at our latest news and analysis


This box was designed to only appear once. It uses a "cookie" (a small file stored on your computer) to remember that it has shown the box to you.

If you are seeing this box appear multiple times, then something is not allowing the cookie to be stored properly. Browsers can be set to not allow cookies, and some people choose to disallow cookies for security reasons. If your browser is setup this way, please consider adding "www.hcn.org" as an exception to your no-cookies rule. For information about how to do this, just search the Web for "browser cookie exceptions."

If you're sure this isn't the problem, then it could be related to how your browser has stored information from our site in previous visits. Browsers often "cache" images, text and other website content in order to make them appear faster if you ever go back. Sometimes the browser's cache can be corrupted or become outdated. The simplest fix for this is to try reloading the page. If that doesn't fix the problem, it may be necessary to clear your temporary items from your browser. Again, a web search will provide you with lots of options and instructions.

Either way, we're sorry to hear that this box is getting in the way of your enjoyment of the HCN website. If you continue to have trouble, please contact our Subscriber Services team.