HCN Christmas Open House; visits from a pilot, a
vulcanologist, and a group of Rotarians from India; remembering
John Firor.
Items by Jodi Peterson
Visitors from Colorado, California and England; HCN
founder Tom Bell fondly remembers Anne Turner, the first intern;
corrections.
High Country News hosts a holiday open house; new faces in
the office include Ryan Foster, Becca Frenier and Marissa McCune;
former interns make good in the big world.
Editor John Mecklin to step down, Jonathan Thompson to
step up; visitors; clarification on Rebecca Solnit
interview.
A list of the most intriguing current books by Western
authors or on Western subjects.
This special issue focuses on books and essays that help
us understand the complex, chaotic West.
Visits from a forester, a farmer, a family and more;
clarification and corrections.
In northern Colorado, ranchette owners are scrambling to
fight a proposal for uranium mining.
New HCN employees include Online Editor Marty Durlin and
Associate Publisher for Marketing Lisa Wolf Johnson;
visitors.
Meet HCN in Salt Lake City; hasta la vista, Gretchen
Nicholoff; visitors; Robert Funkhouser dies; correction.
Recent visitors to Paonia include bikers, big dogs, and
two Brits who are walking across the country
Party with Mark Udall in Snowmass; visitors; a cone by any
other name
Summer visitors, Cherry Days, and a
clarification
HCN skips an issue; HCN’s first-ever Paonia intern
reunion; goat-packing and high-flying visitors
New HCN employees Shaun Gibson, Andrea Lecos and Angie
Riley; a bee-youtiful verse; corrections
New HCN interns Morgan Heim and Eve Rickert;
visitors
HCN board meeting, potluck and intern reunion in Paonia;
visitors; postage increase unfair to small publications; farewell
to activist Jim Jontz
Visitors; April Fool’s in Aspen; Jason Fisher meets
an old friend; farewell to Joyce Jorgensen; and
corrections
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service tries an end-run around
the Endangered Species Act; a leaked draft would weaken the bedrock
law by changing the regulations that implement it rather than the
law itself.
Life for interns after HCN; tell us what you think in our
annual survey.
Wilf Bruschke visits; singer John Winn writes a song
inspired by Patricia Walsh’s column on green burial; Claire
Anderson helps dogs in Mexico; clarification and
corrections
Visitors; Las Vegas writer and historian Hal Rothman dies;
farewell to Dolores LaChapelle and Ed LaChapelle
The Forest Service has overhauled its cumbersome
forest-planning process, but many experts say the agency may have
gone too far.
Visitors; HCN in Title Nine catalog; clarification,
corrections
New winter interns Erin Halcomb and Michelle Blank;
HCN wins Utne press award; Crystal Zevon visits;
corrections.
HCN takes a holiday break; Betsy
Marston and Jon Christensen on TV; HCN hosts
discussion and film in San Francisco; a note from Steve Wilent of
indy paper The Mountain Times;
correction.
Rick Craig wins Nelson Algren Award; visitors; Bill Frank
Jr. and John Echohawk win Wallace Stegner Award;
HCN is looking for good writers
HCN’s Christmas open house;
Michelle Nijhuis wins another award for climate change stories;
visitors; Bill Burnham dies; Jodi Peterson back from sick
leave
HCN says goodbye to Greg Hanscom and
welcomes new editor John Mecklin; notes from readers
High Country News needs your support;
visitors; corrections
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