High Country News

A bullet for the bearer of bad news

After Michele DeHart of the Fish Passage Center in Portland, Ore., publicly supported a plan to protect salmon, angry lawmakers led by Sen. Larry Craig yanked the center’s funding

by Rocky Barker, Dec 12, 2005
A celebration of Cascadia: A review of Open Spaces: Voices from the Northwest

Open Spaces: Voices from the Northwest doesn't quite work as an anthology, but it features some intimate and thoughtful writing about the Pacific Northwest.

by Gretchen Legler, Dec 11, 2011
A chance for redemption

The lead essays in this issue find both darkness and hope in the times we live in, and in the reminder that all civilizations – including our own – eventually crumble and fall

by Greg Hanscom, Jun 21, 2004
A watershed proposal

Colorado's only wild and scenic river may be harnessed for a water storage project.

by James Yearling, Oct 19, 2007
An encyclopedia of rivers

The huge, copiously illustrated Rivers of North America is the first comprehensive effort to detail the current state of the continent’s rivers

by Irene Wanner, Nov 27, 2006
Arizona returns to the desert

Rampant growth in the Phoenix area and a severe drought on the Colorado River challenge Arizona's water sustainability.

by Matt Jenkins, Mar 21, 2005
Big water projects should make Westerners nervous

Demand for water is falling, so why are we going forward with giant water projects?

by Sharlene Leurig, Jan 24, 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
Columbia Basin (Political) Science

Some fisheries scientists and environmentalists say the Bonneville Power Administration has had an unhealthy influence on salmon research in the Northwest.

by Steve Hawley , Apr 13, 2009
Columbia River dams revived

In Washington, tribes have been shut out of a plan for new Columbia River dams that are being touted as good for salmon as well as farmers

by Matt Jenkins, Apr 03, 2006