Cross-country skiers and snowmobilers clash over access to
Logan Canyon, Utah; Mount Jefferson, Mont.; and (of course)
Yellowstone; Forest Service Chief Dale Bosworth steps down to be
replaced by Gail Kimbell; West becomes player in national politics;
bor
Items by Jonathan Thompson
The writer derides the recent busts of illegal
immigrants
Boosters of a Western primary hope it could give the
Interior West a greater voice in the politics of Washington,
D.C.
In 10 Western states this November, voters face a total of
82 ballot measures
Mongolians visit HCN; Chuck and Tim
Worley visit; Tucson’s lawns; Wilderness Society honors Terry
Tempest Williams and Tom Bell; correction
The writer started a weekly paper: Why doesn't
everybody?
In an introduction to this special issue celebrating
independent media, High Country News associate
editor Jonathan Thompson recalls the exciting, exhausting,
high-caffeine years he spent publishing his own newspaper in a
small mountain town
With global warming an increasing threat, some are urging
a return to nuclear energy, but the industry’s own checkered
past reminds us that a nuclear renaissance will be neither easy nor
cheap
Photographer Jared Boyd spends a day with Navajo Alice
Benally, who lives less than a mile from the Four Corners Power
Plant but only received electricity last year
With the Interior West’s national parks facing an increase in haze and air pollution, Rocky Mountain National Park is working with government agencies to improve air quality
Once in the U.S., immigrants find themselves in a land of
contradictions, facing an uncertain welcome, sometimes even from
other Latinos
This special issue of High Country News
takes an on-the-ground look at the human landscape of illegal
immigration in the West
As the outside world bullies its way into northern New
Mexico, the native Hispano culture has begun to fray, and today the
region has the highest rate of heroin addiction in the
country
The former mining town of Silverton, Colo., has put its
economic hopes in plans for a new but old-fashioned small-scale,
low-key ski area, but some worry the area is too avalanche-prone to
be safe.
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