High Country News produces two monthly podcasts
West of 100, available mid-month, brings you compelling stories and ideas with West-wide significance, just as the magazine has always done. Episodes have explored the lost rivers of Southwestern cities and what we lose when man-made noise overtakes silence in natural settings.
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Episode List
- August 2012: Droughts past, present and future. An oral history of the 1950s drought, and a look at what more recent droughts portend for the future.
- July 2012: The ski industry, climate hawk? Industry insider Auden Schendler and others on why ski corporations and pro athletes should step up to the climate crisis -- and how they can do it.
- June 2012 The Excursions Episode: Thought-provoking stories on travel, hitchhiking, and hobo-ing.
- May 2012 There's (still) gold in them thar hills: Soaring prices are driving a new gold rush among mining behemoths and small-time prospectors.
- April 2012 Lost and Found Waterways: Rediscovering the forgotten rivers and streams of Los Angeles and Tucson.
- March 2012 The Sound of Silence: The world is getting noisier. Should we worry?
Rants from the Hill, available at the beginning of each month, features often-funny, always-thoughtful essayist Michael Branch’s musings on life in Nevada’s high desert. Episodes include the author’s creation of a leprechaun trap for St. Patrick’s Day, and his thoughts on the taciturnity of desert dwellers.
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Episode List
- July 2012 Bumper Sticker Sloganeering: Polemical bumper stickers may not be the best way to get your point across
- June 2012 Sorry, Utah: On finding and picking up balloon litter in wilderness, and environmental hypocrisy
- May 2012 The Silence of Desert Greetings: Does living in the desert affect one's personality?
- April 2012 The Leprechaun Trap: Of holiday celebrations whiskey, and leprechaun entrapment






