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Residents of Montana's High Plains are angry - but not at the real threats

Though climate change and the economy are the issues threatening their livelihoods, many of the High Plains people are angry at almost everything else.

by Joe Wilkins, Feb 03, 2012
A fall crop of visitors

High Country News gets lots of visitors; Paolo Bacigalupi's HCN sci-fi story "The Tamarisk Hunter" is in a new anthology; Utne Reader honors visionaries, including some of HCN's friends.

by Jodi Peterson, Nov 10, 2011
Management by mega-fire

It’s a basic fact of Western life that fire rarely behaves the way we want it to.

by Paul Larmer, Oct 17, 2011
Good policy and good intentions won't stop big wildfires

Federal agencies have made strides in reducing fire danger in the West's forests, but many factors hinder their efforts

by Jodi Peterson, Oct 17, 2011
Great hope, great fear

The threat of climate change is terrifying, especially for people who fear for their children's future, but there is still hope, if we start working together.

by Auden Schendler, Aug 24, 2011
Re-watering Nevada's dying Walker Lake

Walker Lake in northwestern Nevada has been dying for years, but locals and government officials are determined to restore it.

by Gordon Gregory, Aug 10, 2011
Is wildfire always a question of when?

An innkeeper remembers the fires that roared through her beloved Chiricahua Mountains.

by Susan Nunn, Jul 21, 2011
The gift of runoff in a wet season

After too many recent dry years, residents of the Rocky Mountains are relishing the music of running water.

by Allen Best, Jul 21, 2011
Why the Southwest is burning

This season’s wildfires are caused by three things: Climate change-induced drought, bureaucratic blindness and old-fashioned human folly.

by William deBuys, Jun 30, 2011
Where has Montana's water gone?

The Yellowstone River Compact may not protect Montanans who rely on the Tongue River’s water.

by Sierra Crane-Murdoch, May 19, 2011