High Country News

A River Once More

In Oregon, a revolutionary community alliance is working to put water – and steelhead trout – back into the Deschutes River

by Matt Jenkins, Oct 16, 2006
Dear Friends

At the Homestead Market next to HCN’s office, bandsaws whine as elk and deer are butchered for this winter’s eating.

by Jodi Peterson, Nov 06, 2008
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
That familiar loneliness: a writer's own relationship mirrors a Stegner novel

Emily Guerin finds that life imitates fiction when she reads Wallace Stegner's book Angle of Repose

by Emily Guerin, Oct 10, 2012
The Terrain of This Ambition

A writer wrestles with the huge shadows cast by the men and women of “Literary Utah.”

by Christopher Cokinos, Sep 05, 2010
The wind eternal

The warm chinook winds of Cody, Wyo. keep temperatures mild as they sand away at the town with a steady gale.

by Bill Croke, Jan 24, 2005
What Wallace Stegner knew

Western writer Wallace Stegner unflinchingly described both the promise and the peril of the American dream.

by Paul VanDevelder, Mar 03, 2009
Who'll stop the rain?

January may have brought rain and snow to parts of the West, but the study of past climates warns us that we still have to learn to live with drought

by Paul Larmer, Jan 24, 2005

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