Mining & Agriculture
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Feature
The Silence of the Bees
Migratory beekeeper John Miller hauls his hives across the West, pollinating everything from almonds to apples, but a nasty parasite and a mysterious disorder are making life much harder for John and his buzzing business partners.
by Hannah Nordhaus, Mar 19, 2007 -
Editor's Note
Have bee, will travel
This issue of High Country News features Hannah Nordhaus on the challenges facing a Western migratory beekeeper and his hives of pollinating bees.
by John Mecklin, Mar 19, 2007 -
Essays
Shear Pleasure
A photo essay follows Matt Smith and the other New Zealanders who make up the company Shear Pleasure as they travel Montana, visiting sheep ranches, shearing sheep, and drinking hard at the end of the day
by Jeremy Lurgio, Dec 25, 2006 -
Uncommon Westerners
Have knives and hooks, will travel
Taos County’s new Mobile Matanza is a rolling livestock butchering unit that travels to the region’s far-flung family ranchers
by Laura Paskus, Dec 11, 2006 -
Related Stories
Navajos pay for industry's mistakes
The federal Radiation Exposure Compensation Act was created to compensate uranium miners and mill workers sickened by their jobs, but on the Navajo Reservation, Dr. Bruce Baird Struminger says the program has proved flawed
by Laura Paskus, Sep 24, 2006 -
Writers on the Range
Subdivision and me
The writer buys 20 acres of former ranch land and changes his mind about the place of ranching in the West
by Steven Albert, Sep 18, 2006 -
News
Unpaved with good intentions
A new breed of land trusts seeks not merely to preserve undeveloped landscape, but to keep it in agricultural use – particularly in organic farming.
by Seth Zuckerman, Sep 18, 2006 -
Two Weeks in the West
Two weeks in the West
Bush cuts EPA library budget; BLM admits failure to protect air quality and wildlife around Pinedale, Wyo., gas fields; California announces perchlorate limits for drinking water; Grand Junction, Colo., passes ordinance against drilling
by Staff, Sep 18, 2006 -
Related Stories
Navajo Windfall
The Navajo Nation is fighting to keep uranium mining off the reservation, but eager uranium companies are determined to mine– and the federal government is on their side
by Laura Paskus, Sep 04, 2006 -
Related Stories
The Fourth Wave
With uranium prices rising, speculators are looking anew at busted mining towns like Jeffrey City, Wyo., but locals have learned to be skeptical
by Samuel Western, Sep 04, 2006 -
Editor's Note
HCN's secret past
High Country News reveals its odd historical connection with the West’s uranium obsession of the 1950s
by Paul Larmer, Sep 04, 2006 -
Essays
'There was just some hard hittin' going on'
Matt Jenkins visits the annual Combine Demolition Derby in the tiny farming town of Lind, Wash.
by Matt Jenkins, Aug 07, 2006 -
Book Reviews
The merry — and meditative — farmer
In Blithe Tomato, Mike Madison writes engagingly about working the land on a small farm in California’s Central Valley
by Laura Paskus, Jul 24, 2006 -
Writers on the Range
A mining town gets a second chance
The writer says Leadville faces a return to life as a mining town
by Stephen Voynick, Jun 19, 2006 -
Writers on the Range
Rhubarb is the season's gift to us
The writer sings the praises of rhubarb
by Linda M. Hasselstrom, Jun 05, 2006






