Feature

Taking control of the machine

Loggers and environmental activists are determined to restore Montana's Beaverhead-Deerlodge National Forest, with or without the help of the Forest Service.

Current

Retooling for the next mission

Iraq war veterans find a new life in Colorado, this time fighting for the environment with the help of Veterans Green Jobs.

Cultural blight

The traditional lifestyles of several Northern California tribes are threatened by a pathogen that is killing off oak trees.

Editor's Note

Who can capture the Forest Service?

The national forests are in such terrible shape that it's worth trying a few experiments in collaborative restoration work.

Dear Friends

Welcome, new interns!

High Country News welcomes three new interns and several visitors and wins a couple of important prizes.

Uncommon Westerners

Wild Turkey, gunfire and big pipelines

Aaron Million wants to build a gigantic water pipeline all the way from southwest Wyoming to Colorado's Front Range.

Book Reviews

The stories we believe

In Rick Collignon's new novel, Madewell Brown, the long-ago disappearance of a black man from a small New Mexican village is investigated by his granddaughter.

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.

Essays

A tenderfoot in Taos

An exhausted young mother, her lively new baby, and a compassionate drunkard have a brief but lovely encounter on the plaza in Taos, N.M.

Letters

Wavin' in Oregon

Biomass is where it's at

Unintended castor-quences

Bull riders for Jesus

Let's get bigger

Two Weeks in the West

Mixed greens

California's "green" leadership is imperiled by the state's inability to handle the other "green" -- i.e., money. Plus: Statistics describe and a map locates some of the geologic carbon sequestration sites planned for the West.

Sidebar

Even hard-liners want to experiment in Arizona

The Center for Biological Diversity and the Grand Canyon Trust are working with a French timber entrepreneur to restore Arizona's unhealthy forests.