http://www.hcn.org These are the search results for the query, showing results 1 to 15. http://www.hcn.org/issues/43.17/life-as-a-fire-lookout It's a long way from Lower Manhattan to a remote fire lookout's perch in New Mexico. No publisher Philip Connors wildfires Forest Service fire lookouts Philip Connors writers Wall Street Journal forest fires fire watching 2011-10-21T15:16:07Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/41.16/the-sky-is-a-crowded-attic Novelist Andrew Sean Greer talks about how the West’s vast landscapes transformed his life and his fiction. No publisher Jeremy N. Smith The Confessions of Max Tivoli novelists The Story of a Marriage writers Western landscape Andrew Sean Greer 2010-02-05T08:59:00Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/41.14/the-dictionary-reader What kind of person spends the whole summer stuck inside a cabin reading the dictionary? No publisher Ana Maria Spagna Ana Maria Spagna writers dictionaries trail crews 2010-02-05T08:43:43Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/342/16893 Visitors; Las Vegas writer and historian Hal Rothman dies; farewell to Dolores LaChapelle and Ed LaChapelle No publisher Jodi Peterson and Jonathan Thompson High Country News Dear Friends Paonia Colorado Denis Brunke Connie Brown Nancy Stechert Inside Aspen Mary Russell Hal Rothman ALS Lou Gehrig’s disease obituaries deaths writers historians Tom Ribe On Rims and Ridges Pajarito Plateau nor 2010-02-05T09:17:58Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/336/16724 Rick Craig wins Nelson Algren Award; visitors; Bill Frank Jr. and John Echohawk win Wallace Stegner Award; HCN is looking for good writers No publisher Jodi Peterson High Country News Dear Friends Paonia Colorado Rick Craig Nelson Algren Awards Chicago Tribune short stories fiction contests writers Cindy Perger-Hendricks Alan Smith Fred Blackburn Wetherills Southwest archaeology Anasazi Indian ruins M 2010-02-05T09:17:01Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/315/16098 John Muir: Family, Friends and Adventures, edited by Sally M. Miller and Daryl Morrison, collects well-illustrated, sometimes scholarly essays on the great naturalist No publisher Staff Human Beings and Nature John Muir: Family Friends and Adventures Sally M. Miller Daryl Morrison anthologies essays biography naturalists historic photographs letters scholars writers book reviews 2010-02-05T08:56:53Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/312/15972 Award-winning author Denise Chavez created the Border Book Festival, and founded a Cultural Center in Mesilla, N.M., to help heal the cultural wounds of the U.S.-Mexico border No publisher Susan J. Tweit Western Culture Denise Chavez Cultural Center of Mesilla Las Cruces New Mexico writers authors novelists culture education art La Frontera U.S.-Mexico border poor communities cultural interaction Emerging Voices workshops Tony Hillerman Sandra Cisneros A 2010-02-05T08:56:11Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/290/15245 In A Place to Stand, New Mexico’s finest poet, Jimmy Santiago Baca, has written a stunning memoir of his turbulent life No publisher Staff Western Culture Memoirs poets autobiographies ex-convicts writers Latinos Hispanics 2010-02-05T09:23:01Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/289/15202 A writer spends time in a primitive cabin in the Colorado mountains, and discovers the wonder of silence and darkness No publisher Erica Olsen Human Beings And Nature writers artist’s residency Aspen Guard Station life without electricity night darkness silence primitive cabins 2010-02-05T09:22:43Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/323/16323 Welcome, new interns Stephanie Paige Ogburn and Allison Gerfin; Southwest Research and Information Center celebrates 35 years; Wendell Duffield wants to know what happened to the U.S. Geological Survey No publisher Stephanie Paige Ogburn, Allison Gerfin and Jodi Peterson High Country News Dear Friends Paonia Colorado Allison Gerfin Stephanie Paige Ogburn High Country News interns writers copy editors Grand Junction Daily Sentinel SAGE magazine Edinburg Texas teachers Yale Southwest Research and Information 2011-11-11T22:25:22Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/323/16322 Curmudgeons like Jim Stiles – owner/editor of Moab’s Canyon Country Zephyr – have a lot to teach us about why it is so important for us to cling to the West that we love No publisher Paul Larmer Media Communities in Transition Jim Stiles Canyon Country Zephyr Moab Utah nostalgia aging New West Old West media small town newspapers Arches National Park Ed Abbey Paonia Colorado editors writers environmentalists wilderness preservation conservation groups develop 2011-12-05T23:55:08Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/323/16321 In his determination to cling, however hopelessly, to Utah’s past, Canyon Country Zephyr founder Jim Stiles has taken on miners, ranchers, developers, mountain bikers and – most recently – some of his fellow environmentalists No publisher M. John Fayhee Advocacy Groups Environmental Media Communities in Transition Jim Stiles Canyon Country Zephyr Moab Utah Arches National Park Edward Abbey Desert Solitaire small town newspapers independent media curmudgeons eccentrics hermits controversialists Brave New West writers editors publishers National Park 2011-11-11T22:17:47Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/348/17061 Writer John Nichols is still fighting the good fight in Taos, N.M. No publisher Erin Halcomb Milagro writers New Mexico John Nichols Beanfield Taos 2010-07-30T18:26:19Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/347/17039 Rick Bass’ new short story collection, The Lives of Rocks, proves that his fierce environmental activism has not diminished the intensity of his storytelling genius No publisher Emma Brown Human beings and nature story collections The Lives of Rocks David James Duncan fiction Yaak Valley Rick Bass environmental activism writers short stories 2010-08-06T19:59:26Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/341/16879 In Home Ground: Language for an American Landscape, edited by Barry Lopez and Debra Gwartney, 45 diverse writers define unusual geographical terms used across the country. No publisher Eliza Murphy Human beings and nature words language Barry Lopez Science Debra Gwartney dictionaries earth Joy Williams Home Ground writers Linda Hogan American history encyclopedias scientists definitions geology landscape geography 2010-08-17T23:21:25Z News Article