High Country News

A part of something old: writer Kim Stafford's storied places

Oregon writer Kim Stafford looks for "scattered Edens" in contemporary Western life.

by Tara Rae Miner, Oct 05, 2011
A season of change

In Chasing Spring: An American Journey Through a Changing Season, nature writer Bruce Stutz follows spring from New York to Alaska, examining the surprising changes that global warming is bringing

by Ewen Callaway, May 01, 2006
A thin, dry border between heaven and hell

In his anthology, God’s Country or Devil’s Playground, editor Barney Nelson gathers together an eclectic mix of the best nature writing from the Big Bend of Texas

by Jessica Toubman, Sep 13, 2004
Adventuring on Colorado's big peaks

A woman finds solace and delight in climbing Colorado's highest and most challenging mountains.

by Jane Koerner, Aug 18, 2011
California Poem

Eleni Sikelianos’ California Poem is a book full of poems, photos, collages, and wonder

by Staff, Feb 07, 2005
Chronicling a lost river: A review of Dry River

Ken Lamberton explores a Southwestern desert landscape in Dry River: Stores of Life, Death, and Redemption on the Santa Cruz.

by Erica Olsen, Jun 12, 2011
Finding reassurance in change: a review of Wild Comfort

In her new collection of essays, Wild Comfort: The Solace of Nature, Kathleen Dean Moore writes her way to the knowledge that "sorrow is part of the Earth's great cycles."

by Chérie Newman, Mar 20, 2011
Fishing for solace

In Yellowstone Autumn, Walter Wetherell describes a short season of solitary fly-fishing and contemplation in Yellowstone National Park.

by Cherie Newman, Apr 14, 2009
Home is where the compost is

Robert Michael Pyle takes us through a year in his small Northwestern community in Sky Time in Gray’s River: Living for Keeps in a Forgotten Place

by Michelle Pulich Stewart, Jul 23, 2007
In the nation's most dangerous park, the desert's heat still beats

In Organ Pipe: Life on the Edge, Carol Ann Bassett pays homage to Organ Pipe National Monument and the strange beauty of the desert

by Lee Allen, Jun 13, 2005