High Country News http://www.hcn.org These are the search results for the query, showing results 61 to 75. Deciphering humanity's hardware http://www.hcn.org/issues/314/16064 Infrastructure: A Field Guide to the Industrial Landscape by Brian Hayes is a wonderfully conversational explanation of everything one sees along the highway that isn’t natural No publisher Michelle Nijhuis Land Use and Planning Brian Hayes industry power plants highways field guides Infrastructure: A Field Guide to the Industrial Landscape factories mining waterworks energy grid communications transportation waste recycling technology highway overpasses substatio 2010-02-05T08:56:40Z News Article The end of something really big http://www.hcn.org/issues/309/15894 The chance to see a huge dead whale draws "carcass tourists" to the California coast No publisher Michelle Nijhuis Human Beings And Nature Personal history memoir whales carcasses life and death animal bones coasts beaches humpback whale Half Moon Bay road trips friendship conversation 2010-02-05T08:31:34Z News Article In the Great Basin, scientists track global warming http://www.hcn.org/issues/308/15849 Wildlife biologist Erik Beever says that as the climate warms in the Great Basin, pikas are rapidly disappearing from mountains where they formerly thrived No publisher Michelle Nijhuis animal high-altitude ecology populations Science biologists global warming Eugene Raymond Hall U.S. Geological Survey Joseph Grinnell Rodents Climate Changes climate change Erik Beever Great Basin wildlife pikas 2010-04-21T21:13:27Z News Article The Ghosts of Yosemite http://www.hcn.org/issues/308/15837 Modern-day scientists, retracing the path of Joseph Grinnell in Yosemite National Park, document conspicuous changes in the natural world and find a culprit unimagined by biologists 100 years ago: global warming No publisher Michelle Nijhuis Climate Change Carol Patton hiking climate change Hot Times Parks Biology Charles Camp Yosemite National Park biologists Wildlife Lyell Lyell Glacier Science global warming Museum of Vertebrate Survey Joseph Grinnell Ward Russell fi wildlife U.S. Geological Jim Patton Canyon naturalists 2010-09-30T22:57:42Z News Article The end of something really big http://www.hcn.org/wotr/15836 The writer visits the remains of a dead whale — so big that a dignified resting place proves elusive No publisher Michelle Nijhuis Other Species 2010-02-05T09:47:50Z News Article The grasslands — humanity's big backyard http://www.hcn.org/issues/306/15794 In Sonoita Plain: Views from a Southwestern Grassland, biologists Carl and Jane Bock convey the subtle beauty of the wildlife and people of Arizona’s Sonoita Valley. No publisher Michelle Nijhuis Human Beings And Nature Grasslands Carl and Jane Bock Sonoita Valley Appleton-Whittell Research Ranch biology wildlife biodiversity Audubon Society Stephen Strom pronghorn conservation 2012-03-05T23:11:18Z News Article Dinosaur tracks on a desert shore http://www.hcn.org/issues/306/15788 When drought shrank Lake Powell this summer, paleontologist Martin Lockley went to work scouring the shoreline for newly revealed rare dinosaur tracks in the sandstone No publisher Michelle Nijhuis Paleontology Martin Lockley paleontologists dinosaur tracks drought Lake Powell sandstone fossils Jurassic Anomoepus scientists Science 2012-03-05T22:40:28Z News Article The American Dream, sans gasoline http://www.hcn.org/issues/303/15705 The author’s successful search for a car that can run on biodiesel helps her understand the lure of the open road No publisher Michelle Nijhuis Energy Efficiency biodiesel fuel efficiency buying cars road trips gasoline automobiles Mercedes Benz energy efficiency 2012-04-17T20:38:39Z News Article The American Dream, sans gasoline http://www.hcn.org/wotr/15642 The writer finds you can have the American dream without gasoline No publisher Michelle Nijhuis Oil And Gas Energy Efficiency 2010-02-05T09:47:04Z News Article Finding good grub in Mormon redrock country http://www.hcn.org/issues/298/15520 In With a Measure of Grace: The Story and Recipes of a Small Town Restaurant, Blake Spalding and Jennifer Castle tell how they ended up running the Hell’s Backbone Grill in the remote community of Boulder, Utah No publisher Michelle Nijhuis Western Culture Hell’s Backbone Grill Blake Spalding Jennifer Castle Lavinia Spalding restaurants cooks recipes small town living cafes Mormons Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument 2012-03-30T22:02:06Z News Article Troubled — and shallow — waters on the West's largest river http://www.hcn.org/issues/296/15444 The Columbia River Basin's serious drought means a hard choice between fish and hydropower No publisher Michelle Nijhuis water shortages Snake River Christine Gregoire Columbia Basin Water Transactions Columbia River Basin fish Washington Department of Ecology Administration Ted Andrew Purkey Rivers salmon Weather Kulon Bonneville Power runoff drought hydropower dams Program 2010-02-05T09:24:23Z News Article Drought and spring rains portend an explosive summer http://www.hcn.org/issues/296/15443 The Pacific Northwest and Northern Rockies brace for a fierce fire season, and desperately seek the resources to fight it. No publisher Michelle Nijhuis Fire forest fires firefighters Montana National Guard Brian Schweitzer Christine Gregoire drought Jerry Piering Oregon Department of Forestry Rick Ochoa National Interagency Fire Center Ron Neilson Oregon State University fire season global warmin 2010-02-05T09:24:23Z News Article A chemical cocktail pollutes Western water http://www.hcn.org/issues/296/15436 A recent study from the U.S. Geological Survey finds traces of pharmaceuticals, pesticides and personal care products in Colorado’s streams and groundwater No publisher Michelle Nijhuis Pollution Colorado water groundwater streams rivers water pollution water contamination pesticides pharmaceuticals personal care products PPCPs USGS scientists Lori Sprague fish water quality EPA Christian Daughton David Norris toxicologists inte 2010-02-05T09:24:20Z News Article What happened to winter? http://www.hcn.org/issues/296/15431 An unusual winter sends ripples through the West's water and wildlife systems, and leaves scientists wondering whether global warming is the cause. No publisher Michelle Nijhuis Science Climate Change Winter global warming climate change rainfall snowpack wolves Yellowstone National Park water supply weather seasons climate variation ski industry Death Valley Kelly Redmond Western Regional Climate Center ski resorts Cascade Mountains R 2010-02-05T09:24:18Z News Article On the dark side of the park: a ranger's memoir http://www.hcn.org/issues/293/15345 Jordan Fisher Smith’s Nature Noir: A Park Ranger’s Patrol in the Sierra explores a part of California that is not easy to love No publisher Michelle Nijhuis State Parks Auburn State Recreation Area memoirs autobiographies park rangers American River Auburn Dam 2010-02-05T09:23:52Z News Article