High Country News - Writers on the Range
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The "truth" about organic food
Organic food is better for us than food grown on farms using pesticides, hormones or antibiotics. Here's why.
by Ari LeVaux, Sep 27, 2012 -
Childhood's end
A writer watches his kids grow up into a world he can never protect them from.
by Auden Schendler, Sep 20, 2012 -
Harness the wind, create a job
The federal government should continue to support wind power with the Production Tax Credit, which provides stability in the industry.
by Kristina Curtis and Matt Patsky, Sep 19, 2012 -
Pondering change in the Great Basin
Paleontology and geology at Summer Lake, an ancient lake bed in Oregon, have shown the Great Basin's history of dramatic change
by Pepper Trail, Sep 17, 2012 -
Does taking our kids into the wild make us dangerous parents?
The author contends there are more dangers at home.
by Alan Kesselheim, Sep 13, 2012 -
Don't look for the frontier in Alaska
Tourism, sprawl and energy development have made Alaska less wild; now climate change is also altering the North
by Tim Lydon, Sep 13, 2012 -
Giving names to smoke and fire
Why do we name fires?
by Jaime O'Neill , Sep 06, 2012 -
Taking my chances in grizzly country
Meeting wilderness on its own terms, without bear spray
by Charles Finn, Sep 05, 2012 -
Don't ever forget Cecil Garland
Remembering the quiet activist who fought hard to preserve Montana's 240,000-acre Scapegoat wilderness
by Gabriel Furshong, Sep 04, 2012 -
A once-proud conservation group has lost its way
The Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation is waging war against wolves -- and alienating its supporters.
by Dave Stalling, Aug 30, 2012 -
Start a wildfire, go to jail - or worse
Arsonists who start wildland fires face stiffer penalties than ever.
by John N. Maclean, Aug 30, 2012 -
Even pests have a purpose
We should celebrate the recovery of the California condor, but raise a glass for a lost louse.
by Marian Lyman Kirst, Aug 23, 2012 -
Hawk watching on the Mokelumne River
Wind energy may pose a threat to raptors as immediate as encroaching development.
by John Berry, Aug 22, 2012 -
Just don't call the condors wild
I'm glad condors are flourishing, but with all the cosseting they receive, they're not really wild.
by Steve Herman, Aug 20, 2012 -
"Friending" nature
Using social media and citizen science to track the tiger beetle in New Mexico and Arizona
by Sharman Apt Russell, Aug 16, 2012 -
Mourning the world we've lost
Art as elegy and as a call to action on behalf of the natural world.
by Sarah Gilman, Aug 15, 2012 -
A subdivision on the edge of the wild
Living surrounded by wildlife is special, even if beavers flood you out.
by Jeff Nichols, Aug 09, 2012 -
Public lands agencies are charging for nothing
A court decision knocked down “amenity” fees at national forests, but the USFS still tries to charge
by Cindy J. Cole, Aug 10, 2012 -
No longer the safest place
One ideal corner of the Northwest can’t escape environmental impacts from the rest of the world.
by Pepper Trail, Aug 08, 2012 -
On the front line of mental illness and violence
The National Rifle Association acts as a terrorist organization in its efforts to limit gun control
by Eliza Murphy, Aug 02, 2012
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