The decision to choose Yucca Mountain in the first place was political too, ya know
Items by Sarah Gilman
Wild bison are making headway towards roaming more freely in Montana.
There are strange and interesting things afoot in the conservation world
The names on the Western landscape tell a harrowing, fascinating and at times hilarious story.
Grand Canyon Skywalk proves the two aren't mutually exclusive
The season's early this year, and shaping up to be a doozy, at least in Colorado
Colorado's Village at Wolf Creek rises again, only more weensy.
Pika populations are blinking out faster than ever in the Great Basin
Symposium full of dire news about climate change's impacts on Western forests
Has the threat of ESA protection done more for sage grouse than a listing ever could?
Climate change may boost infectious disease in the West
In the battle of weather wills, wintryness seems to be winning in the lower half of the region
New data from the U.S. Census Bureau and the New York Times
Rural ambulance services face increasingly tough times
When pesticide chemicals were found underneath the houses of Barber Orchard, N.C., it aroused fears nationwide about the risks of building on former agricultural land.
Idaho's Payette National Forest is trying to keep wild bighorn sheep separated from domestic sheep, which can spread disease.
Proposals to make dangerous rapids safer rouse controversy among avid river-users.
High Country News skips a September issue; visitors; corrections.
The timber from Colorado's beetle-killed trees is not finding much of a market.
High Country News gets rain, and visitors; new books from our contributors; Debra Utacia Krol wins award; correction.
The hikers who are loving Colorado’s fourteeners to death need to repair the damage they’re doing and help out either physically or financially.
An extraordinary 1,500-ton machine will create a new water intake from drought-stricken Lake Mead to thirsty Las Vegas
With grasshoppers expected to swarm the West this summer, High Country News looks back at some of the region's most dramatic historic hopper outbreaks.
As the economy has globalized, illegal trafficking of wildlife has gotten worse in the West.
Over the last century, Wyoming has transplanted hundreds of bighorn sheep, both in-state and out, to buoy struggling herds.
"They're ba-a-ackk!": Enviro-boogeymen return from the dead as Republicans like Richard Pombo seek a comeback.
. . .but at least the skiing is good
At long last, the DOI reins in oil and gas development.
Is the West ripening for a Right wing comeback?
When a land trust dissolves, its conservation easements need to be taken on by another group, but that’s not as easy as it sounds.
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