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Taking to the Trees

After conquering rocks, trails and mountains, weekend warriors have found a new hobby: Climbing the West’s big trees.

by Morgan Heim, Apr 14, 2008
Heard Around the West

Spring is around the corner, even in Wyoming; toilet-to-tap without a “yuck” in Orange County; Utah lawmakers say the craziest things; how nonprofits deal with stress; pink poodle kerfluffle in Boulder; and pterodactyls in Washington.

by Betsy Marston, Mar 31, 2008
The legacy of the 10th Mountain men

Peter Shelton spends a day skiing and reminiscing with the veterans of the Army’s 10th Mountain Division.

by Peter Shelton, Mar 31, 2008
Thinking like a fish

The essays in Chad Hanson’s collection Swimming with Trout celebrate the wonder of water and its mysterious inhabitants.

by Irene Wanner, Mar 31, 2008
Reasons to stay

In Charlotte Bacon’s novel, Split Estate, a damaged New York family seeks refuge and renewal on a Wyoming ranch.

by T.K. Dalton, Mar 31, 2008
The loneliness of the redneck environmentalist

Drew Pogge is caught between two cultures: the redneck good ol’ boy gearheads of his youth, and the holier-than-thou environmentalists of his present.

by Drew Pogge, Mar 31, 2008
A message to our grandchildren

Environmental pioneer Stewart Udall and his wife, Lee, ask their grandchildren to be “steadfast enemies of waste.”

by Stewart and Lee Udall, Mar 31, 2008
My Crazy Brother

Ray Ring takes a personal, painful look at the West’s suicidal tendencies, as shown in the life and death of his brother, John.

by Ray Ring, Mar 31, 2008
Wyoming’s day in the spin

Ed Quillen looks behind the recent brouhaha of Wyoming’s Democratic caucuses, and speculates on Hillary Clinton’s response to Barack Obama’s victory in the state.

by Ed Quillen, Mar 31, 2008
Native Intelligence

Lili Singer is in love with California’s native plants and wants to share that love with other people.

by Erika Schickel, Mar 31, 2008
3:10 to Baghdad

In the desert outside of Yuma, Ariz., the United States military prepares for overseas combat.

by Christine Hoekenga, Mar 31, 2008
Conservation easement conundrums

New York transplant Erin Toll helps Colorado crack down on conservation easement abuses.

by Jennie Lay, Mar 31, 2008
Two weeks in the West

A good time to buy a McMansion – cheap; lawmakers wrangle over development; “eco-terrorism” in suburbia; EPA head honcho in trouble; cleaning up dirty Western air – and a few dirty Western politicians.

by Sarah Gilman and Jodi Peterson, Mar 31, 2008
Breaking the silence of suicide

It may seem like a considerable departure for High Country News to write about mental illness and suicide, but as Ray Ring’s deeply personal lead story shows, both tragedies are rooted in the West.

by Jonathan Thompson, Mar 31, 2008
Heard Around the West

Karen Claver delivers the mail in remote, rural northern Montana; The Duane B. Hagadone Heliport Blues; neighbor vs. neighbor over Arizona “pop-ups”; and New York’s famous Moondance Diner moves to Wyoming, blizzards and all.

by Betsy Marston, Mar 03, 2008
Staying put

These days, Ana Maria Spagna travels only in her imagination, as she and her partner, Laurie, stay home and care for their elderly, dying and much-loved cat, Daisy.

by Ana Maria Spagna, Mar 03, 2008
Remembering Rrrrrip City!

The essays in Matt Love’s anthology Red Hot and Rollin’ take a lively and nostalgic look at Oregon in 1977, the year the Portland Trailblazers won their one and only NBA championship.

by Michelle Nijhuis, Mar 03, 2008
Men, machines, memories

In Five Skies, novelist Ron Carlson tells the terse and occasionally poetic stories of three emotionally damaged men working in Idaho for the summer.

by T.K. Dalton, Mar 03, 2008
We’re in a land of Lincoln

For better and for worse, the West of today was created by Abraham Lincoln and the early Republican Party.

by Ed Quillen, Mar 03, 2008
Heard Around the West

Jackson Hole needs a brand-new slogan; trees vs. solar power in environmentalist California; trees vs. the view in Lake Tahoe; Arizona’s “extreme commuters”; drunk driver protects his beer; Barry McCahill loves SUVs even though he doesn’t drive one.

by Betsy Marston, Feb 18, 2008