Too expensive to fight invasive shellfish?
Items by Jodi Peterson
For the first time ever, a jaguar in the U.S. is wearing a tracking device.
The much-loved Western writer would have been 100 on Feb. 18.
Jim Stiles tries to keep his Canyon Country Zephyr alive online; visitors, or the lack thereof; and book notes.
Plans for a posh Utah resort will now be put to public vote.
Agencies and states flunk "Prairie Dog Management 101."
A national park may finally get its elk overpopulation problem under control.
Marley Shebala and Jesus De La Rosa join HCN’s board of directors; Ed and Betsy Marston win Champions of the Rockies award; Rebecca Clarren wins Alicia Patterson Fellowship and Ken Wright has a new book.
Deciding who is, and is not, a member of a Native American tribe can be a difficult business.
Disease and federal indecision and inaction make life hard for the West's wolves.
In heavily-hunted populations, it's the small and weak who survive.
Timber company drops its backdoor road agreement with the Forest Service.
An imported bug destroys an exotic weed -- that an endangered bird depends upon.
BLM official blasts the Bush drilling push.
The economic downturn is keeping travelers at home, but fortunately HCN’s readers are staying in touch.
Two sides of the spin coin, from the BLM and enviros.
On several environmental issues, the Bush administration failed to push through its agenda.
As Bush prepares to leave office, his "midnight regulations" are mostly gifts to big business.
Hardrock mining slows down, but carbon sequestration and algae biofuels pick up.
High Country News writers look for querencia – the physical place that gives one strength – in prehistoric (and contemporary) Indian pueblos, in gardens tended by recovering addicts, and in a now-lost family farm.
A last-minute rule change would give the USDA control over bighorn sheep introductions.
HCN welcomes new board members Wayne Hare and Jane Ellen Stevens; Peter Friederici’s story on recycled effluent gets praise from the Society of Environmental Journalists.
Protected bears die -- thanks to careless humans.
A profile of High Country News readers Keith and Evelyn Baker.
At the Homestead Market next to HCN’s office, bandsaws whine as elk and deer are butchered for this winter’s eating.
Colorado goes blue for the first time in more than 40 years.
Western states are struggling to figure out how to capture the methane emissions from coal mines.
Controversial study claims dams have little effect on salmon survival rates.
Writer and professor David Gessner is among HCN’s recent interesting visitors; Paonia hosts chefs-in-training.
Ignore climate change effects on listed species, says Bush administration.
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