A former lookout finds the woman who used to guard her tower.
Items by Erin Halcomb
A writer has a holy experience while mushroom hunting in southern Oregon.
Nancy Hood has spent 50 summers watching for fires from lookouts in the smoky Siskiyou Mountains of Northern California.
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife’s forensic lab in
Ashland, Ore., tackles wildlife crime from around the
world.
In the Northern Rockies, gray wolves may be in danger of
inbreeding.
In the Rocky Mountain West, old mining claims are suddenly
the newest real estate hot spots.
Writer John Nichols is still fighting the good fight in Taos, N.M.
Dan Donato, whose controversial study on salvage logging
sparked an academic firestorm, talks about his research and all it
provoked
Japanese Americans forced to leave college during World
War II will get a "symbolic apology."
The U.S. FIsh and Wildlife Service is pondering ways to
protect rare desert tortoise from ravenous ravens.
A new report shows salmon-killing dams would cost less to
remove than to keep.
Wyoming microbiologist Randy Lewis is fascinated by
spiders – particularly by the remarkable silk they
produce.
Along the upper Gila in New Mexico, conservationists and
the state squabble over managing the river's water.
The wolf known as B-7 – the last surviving member of
a group of Canadian wolves released in Idaho in 1995 – has
died.
The Forest Service is making changes that promise to
improve the quality of life for the workers who thin and restore
the nation's forests.
HCN hosts panel discussion in Berkeley about the
West’s political future; notes from readers Mark Salvo and
Michael Green.
New winter interns Erin Halcomb and Michelle Blank;
HCN wins Utne press award; Crystal Zevon visits;
corrections.
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