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Viva la independent press!

High Country News is nominated for two Utne Independent Press awards; Laura Paskus wins award from Society of Professional Journalists; Nathan Rice to be HCN’s next editorial fellow; correction and clarification.

by Jodi Peterson , May 16, 2011
Hoover Dam: marvel and folly

Hoover Dam is an amazing piece of engineering, but it has outlived its usefulness.

by John Weisheit, Nov 03, 2010
Slobs at Lake Powell foment a revolt

Rather than rail against Lake Powell's mere existence, conservationists should try to restore and protect the landscape that is still there.

by Andrew Gulliford, Aug 20, 2010
Whoever thought the Lake Powell bathtub was a good idea?

What a disappointment it is to go from Utah's wild Dirty Devil River to the hideous man-made bathtub of Lake Powell.

by Alan Kesselheim, May 28, 2010
Death of an era

High Country News remembers Stewart Udall, the legendary Interior secretary.

by Ray Ring, Apr 07, 2010
Heard Around the West

The boatmen’s quarterly review revisits the wet spring of 1983 and the terrifying whitewater the rafters encountered deep in the Grand Canyon; “Smart fortwo” car coming to town; the wit & wisdom of Ted Turner.

by Betsy Marston, May 26, 2008
Two weeks in the West

Nasty chemicals in the Western air; drilling dust; EPA gets tougher on mercury; wildlife agency reconsiders habitat for Canada lynx and protection for sage grouse and white-tailed prairie dogs; and Grand Canyon gets a man-made flood.

by Sarah Gilman, Mar 17, 2008
Heard Around the West

Glen Canyon Dam’s image problem; riding the SLUT; coal-train pit crews; regulating a very peculiar hallucinogenic plant; poison ivy loves global warming; humongous fungus in Oregon.

by Betsy Marston, Oct 15, 2007
He loves nature. And dams.

Paul Ostapuk is a nature-lover and outdoorsman who loves Lake Powell and Glen Canyon Dam.

by Jim Rossi, Sep 17, 2007
A taste of ecological medicine

In Nature’s Restoration, naturalist Peter Friederici looks at the people and places involved in the restoration of natural landscapes

by Sarah Mazze, Jul 23, 2007