High Country News

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
Bipartisan uprising sinks public-lands selloff

Reps. Richard Pombo’s and Jim Gibbons’ controversial proposal to sell off public lands was pulled after both Republican and Democratic lawmakers and citizens rallied against it

by Ray Ring, Dec 26, 2005
Building a more effective environmental movement

In The Rebirth of Environmentalism, activist Douglas Bevington explores the relationship between the giant national organizations, like the Sierra Club, and the small grassroots groups.

by Felice Pace, Apr 25, 2010
Collateral damage

T.C. Boyle's new novel, When the Killing's Done, examines the awkward way humans interact with nature and with one another.

by Michael Engelhard , Feb 20, 2011
Conservation's First Lady

A fiery environmentalist is fondly remembered in Dyana Furmansky's biography, Rosalie Edge, Hawk of Mercy: The Activist Who saved Nature from the Conservationists.

by Laura Paskus, Jul 21, 2009
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
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
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
Go East, young greens

What is it like to be an idealistic young environmentalist working on Capitol Hill?

by Paul Larmer, May 01, 2011
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