The organization is putting its building up for sale but will remain in Paonia.
Items by Greg Hanscom
And we want to hear from you. Join our open reader survey.
Our readers have high expectations, and Jennifer Sahn is up for the charge.
Our investigation from March 2020 gets deserved recognition, and we say a bittersweet farewell to a few employees.
After five years at the helm, Brian Calvert is off to the next big thing.
As we gear up for another 50 years, we’re working to raise $10 million.
Supporting each other helps us all do our best.
As the Trump administration retrenches, there’s a rising call for justice and political reform.
Can one of the West's most conservative, anti-federal lands lawmakers broker a mega-wilderness deal in the Beehive state?
Voices in the Utah wilderness debate
The ski industry, for whom bad press means all the difference between a banner year and a bust, tries to manage public perception of climate change's impact on snowfall and resort conditions.
The chief of Recreation Equipment Inc. has worked hard to support conservation and get people of all ages and colors outside. Can she do the same at the Department of Interior?
California's Mammoth Mountain provides a case study on the uncertainty of the ski business, and how global warming threatens to make it even more unpredictable.
Pioneering mountaineer Peter Metcalf built Black Diamond into a successful climbing-gear business when nobody thought it could be done. But his dream of turning the outdoor industry into a force for nature remains tantalizingly elusive.
A map showing the grants given by the Outdoor Industry Association's sister organization, the Conservation Alliance.
Outgoing High Country News editor Greg
Hanscom muses on the stories and issues the paper has covered in
the 10 years he’s been with it
HCN says goodbye to Greg Hanscom and
welcomes new editor John Mecklin; notes from readers
The Bush administration deserves credit for its "Water
2025" initiative, which provided grants that have helped the
Deschutes River Conservancy and the Central Oregon Irrigation
District begin restoring Oregon’s Deschutes River
As enjoyable as mountain biking is, bikes simply
don’t belong in the wilderness, partly because the faster you
travel through a place, the smaller – and tamer – that
place begins to seem.
Forest Service Chief Dale Bosworth talks about how his
agency has changed over the years, defending current forest
management policies as well as the Service’s dealings with
the energy industry
Is it really true that the U.S. has no choice but to
employ a harsh form of triage in deciding which endangered species
should live, and which must die?
Ray Ring’s cover story on the libertarian stealth
campaign to put "takings" initiatives on Western ballots is the
biggest untold political story of the year
In a special summer reading issue, HCN
dishes up a science fiction story that imagines life in the
Southwest in 2030 or so, when "Big Daddy Drought" is in full
stride, and California claims all water
HCN seeks new editor as Greg Hanscom
announces plans to leave; HCN goes to diversity
school
Matt Jenkins leaves the HCN office to
become California-Great Basin correspondent; Western Slope
Environmental Resource Conference and North Fork River Improvement
Association hold annual meetings; visitors; "secretary" Bruce
Babbitt
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
Misinformation and exaggeration abound in the debate over
the Endangered Species Act’s critical habitat
provisions
The discovery of heretofore "undiscovered" small towns,
and their invasion by wealthy second-homeowners, brings money,
problems and often disillusionment to much of the West
Michelle Nijhuis has just won the 2006 Sullivan Award for
Excellence in Science Journalism for her series on global warming
in the West, which concludes with this issue’s feature
story
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