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A father of a biracial child listens to the casually racist jokes of his rural Colorado neighbors.
An innovative local program helps Hispanic heroin addicts recover by renewing their ties to the land.
The joys – and hardships – of outdoor physical work take a toll.
Her brush with homelessness gives Jane Goetze the background to offer some wry advice.
Hoping for a Western Interior secretary who practices the politics of collaboration.
In southwestern Colorado’s Crow Canyon, archaeologists are working with Native Americans to solve the historical mysteries of the Four Corners area.
Southern California wants to use desalination to increase its water supply, but critics think the idea needs to be taken with a grain of salt.
Controversial forestry scientist Tom Bonnicksen believes increased logging is necessary to fight global warming.
BLM flip-flops on solar and expedites oil and gas; Western Governors’ Association talks about energy; more fossil fuel risks; good (and bad) salmon news.
Andy Gulliford delights in the vast Canyon of the Ancients National Monument-- a living museum subject to increased gas drilling.
Bill Sniffin is pleased that Wyoming is spending its energy earnings wisely, but he believes that even more could be done with the money before the boom’s over.
An energy boom of unprecedented proportions is transforming western Colorado towns like Rifle, which just recently recovered from the last big energy boom – and a catastrophic bust.
Pushing the limits of local control over energy companies
Dustin Heron Urban has declared war on the little black stickers at gas stations that announce the availability of ethanol.
High Country News imagines – and delivers – the kind of speech about our energy future that the West needs to hear from its next president.
Bill Sniffin says the state called the “Saudi Arabia of coal” may find its product less desirable in the face of global warming.
Pepper Trail says a proposed energy corridor for the region will chew up huge amounts of public and private land: Comments are due by Feb. 14.
Pepper Trail warns us that we continue to tinker with nature at our peril.
