High Country News

Ted Nugent doesn’t speak for me

Hunters, gun owners and NRA members need an articulate spokesman, but a loudmouth like Ted Nugent is not the ideal candidate.

by Pat Wray, May 24, 2012

The truth about wolves is hard to find

Some hunters claim wolves are killing too many deer and elk in northwestern Montana, but the facts indicate otherwise -- although those facts are easily lost in all the emotional rhetoric.

by Christina Nealson, Apr 26, 2012

When wolf-trapping goes viral

When a trapper posted photos of himself with a dying wolf on Facebook, the resulting angry, hate-filled uproar on the Internet accomplished nothing useful.

by Erin Zwiener, Apr 24, 2012

Big game tag auctions raise big bucks for Western states

Hunting tag auctions may get too pricey for a lot of Western hunters, but they also raise significant money for conservation projects.

by Marian Lyman Kirst, Apr 16, 2012

Not all government programs need cutting

The Conservation Reserve Program has encouraged millions of acres of idled farmland to be used as wildlife habitat, but now it may be plowed under by a budget-cutting Congress.

by Stephanie Paige Ogburn, Oct 13, 2011

Nature fierce and not so pretty

Spend enough time around a bird feeder, and you’ll realize that nature is less like a poetic cartoon and more like a gritty crime novel by someone like Elmore Leonard.

by Dennis Hinkamp, Sep 21, 2011

A life in the wild

Carter Niemeyer's memoir Wolfer is the entertaining story of a government trapper who loves wildlife - especially serious predators like wolves.

by Hal Herring, Aug 22, 2011

Live and let live

Mountain lions can be dangerous, but the risk is over-rated and well worth accepting for those of us who want to live in a truly wild West.

by Dan Miller, Aug 11, 2011

A Western mystery with an environmental twist: a review of Buried by the Roan

In Mark Stevens' second novel, Allison Coil, a tequila-drinking hunting guide, investigates a mysterious death in a remote landscape much sought after by oil and gas developers.

by Erica Olsen, Aug 08, 2011