First annual Paonia Film Festival; Pronghorn Passage; Craig Childs wins Desert Writers Award; correction.
Items by Jodi Peterson
California and Oregon try to control suction dredge mining in rivers.
Colorado forges ahead with rules to protect roadless forests.
High Country News welcomes new outreach director Todd Chamberlin and says goodbye to Ellen Kraus, our subscriber services staffer; writerly readers come to call; Tara Waters Lumpkin launches online magazine Izilwane.
The tussle over tribal management of the National Bison Range continues.
High Country News skipped issue; Paul Larmer's son, Zachary, and friends invent "The Caboose," a device that assists the disabled; Amy Goodman visits Paonia; new books by Tracy Ross and Hannah Nordhaus; clarification.
High Country News Contributing Editor Matt Jenkins gets grant; Betsy Marston helps obtain grant for Delta County schools; Ana Maria Spagna's new book about community; clarifications.
BLM announces "fundamental reforms" in its wild horse and burro program
In Washington and New Mexico, state wildlife commissions could become a thing of the past.
Air pollution over gas fields is sometimes worse than in major cities.
High Country News board meets via Web and phone; Gretchen Aston-Puckettt to leave HCN; new website, new cleaners, new job for Ariana Brocious; map clarification
Acidic oil from tar sands endangers the public and the environment.
A proposed cut in airborne tourism may make the park less noisy.
High Country News welcomes new interns, Nathan Rice and Sierra Crane-Murdoch; visitors, self-reported; corrections.
U.S. Park Police Chief Teresa Chamber returns to her job after being fired for whistleblowing.
The EPA will not regulate greenhouse gas emissions from biomass facilities for the next three years.
Undocumented youth grow up here, then get kicked out.
High Country News gets advice on marketing; holiday visitors; Lisa Song gets reporting job and Michelle Nijhuis wins grant; farewell, Bill Freudenburg.
According to scientific reviewers, Obama's new draft for managing the northern spotted owl is better than Bush's plan but still flawed.
A wandering Colorado wolf turned out to have been poisoned.
Injured Arizona congresswoman is a centrist and a strong supporter of the environment
In which we pick our favorite year-end lists.
High Country News takes Christmas break; visitors on wheels, recent books by HCN writers; corrections.
Wolverines take a seat in the Endangered Species waiting room.
High Country News will host Holiday Open House; poets, bikers and wine-lovers come to call; clarifications.
High Country News wants to hear from readers; Stephanie Paige Ogburn joins to HCN as multimedia editor; falling leaves and fall visitors; corrections.
Forthcoming documentary explores notorious sport.
Remembering William L. Berry Jr.; Jonathan Thompson wins Special Citation from 2010 Knight-Risser Prize for Western Environmental Journalism; corrections.
Getting energy from biomass is more complicated -- and perhaps less green -- than it seems.
High Country News welcomes new assistant editor Cally Carswell and says goodbye to business employee Jessica Spencer; Sen. Michael Bennet visits; Paonia "hippie reunion"; visitors.
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