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  • A fall crop of visitors

    High Country News gets lots of visitors; Paolo Bacigalupi's HCN sci-fi story "The Tamarisk Hunter" is in a new anthology; Utne Reader honors visionaries, including some of HCN's friends.

    by Jodi Peterson, Nov 10, 2011

  • Dear friends

    Visitors; Paolo Bacigalupi’s book of sci-fi stories, Pump Six and Other Stories, is published; photographer and wilderness advocate Ernie Day dies; corrections.

    by Jodi Peterson, Mar 03, 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

  • Dear friends

    Matt Jenkins wins prize for Western Environmental Journalism, and Paolo Bacigalupi wins Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award for science fiction short story; HCN board meeting and potluck in Missoula; visitors; Tim McKay dies

    by Jodi Peterson, Aug 21, 2006

  • Dear Friends

    Arjun Tadini Bacigalupi is born; HCN’s February board meeting & our new business plan; board members Mark Gordon and Terry Janis step down; new board members Annette Aguayo and John Heyneman; Gary Paul Nabhan on desert agriculture; and familiar faces Geof

    by Greg Hanscom, Mar 01, 2004
  • From Alaska to Paonia

    From Alaska to Paonia

    Visitors from Alaska; more anniversaries; Emily Underwood and YEWS; Paolo Bacigalupi's novel The Windup Girl gets raves; and corrections.

    by Jodi Peterson , Apr 25, 2010

  • HCN looks to the future

    In a special summer reading issue, HCN dishes up a science fiction story that imagines life in the Southwest in 2030 or so, when "Big Daddy Drought" is in full stride, and California claims all water

    by Greg Hanscom, Jun 26, 2006

  • National visit-your-parents-in-Paonia week?

    Visitors come to Paonia; new books from HCN authors.

    by Jodi Peterson, Aug 10, 2009
  • The persistence of bigotry, Western-style

    The persistence of bigotry, Western-style

    A father of a biracial child listens to the casually racist jokes of his rural Colorado neighbors.

    by Paolo Bacigalupi, Nov 26, 2008

  • The Tamarisk Hunter

    In the desert Southwest of 2030 Big Daddy Drought runs the show, California claims all the water, and a water tick named Lolo ekes out a rugged living removing tamarisk.

    by Paolo Bacigalupi, Jun 26, 2006

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