Mark Udall on the big stage.
Items by Jonathan Thompson
Led by vets against the war, a huge protest finally gets noticed at the DNC.
Sportsmen say their vote is up for grabs.
Montana Gov. Brian Schweitzer makes an appearance at the big tent to see the bloggers.
Montana Governor gets prominent place on convention agenda
Yes. Even High Country News editors fall under the spell of celebrities from time to time.
Democrats' voices on energy drowned out by ... protesters.
HCN does the Convention on the cheap.
It's not all about parties and rallies.
There are nuggets of substance buried in the Convention circus. But is anyone listening?
When the convention comes to Denver, it feels a bit like another Western city.
The High Country News team has landed in Denver. Stay tuned for more under-the-radar coverage from the Democratic National Convention.
Tune in to HCN.org Aug. 25-28 for unconventional coverage from Denver
A desert village called Big Water and a troubled ski resort near the hardscrabble town of Beaver are two unlikely places in Utah where entrepreneurs plan to build exclusive resorts for the ultra-rich.
High Country News photographer Morgan Heim joins the International League of Conservation Photographers to document the gasfields and the wildlands around Pinedale, Wyo.
Some moderate Western Republicans, tired of being penned up behind rigid ideological fences, are rebelling against the hard-line elements of their party.
Our policies are schizophrenic.
In most of the West’s complicated environmental
problems, so-called “unlikely alliances” between greens
and their opposite numbers are really not that unlikely after
all.
Garry and Diann Fulks have been recycling large metal
objects for 35 years at their scrap yard in Montrose,
Colo.
Westerners in towns like Durango, Colo., and Monticello,
Utah, have been exposed to mine tailings for years, unaware that
uranium might be even more dangerous than scientists used to
believe.
The West’s weather is full of surprises this spring,
with snowstorms, windstorms, rain and wildfires all happening at
the same time.
Just as western Colorado towns like Rifle have begun a new
life as thriving “amenity” economies, an energy boom of
unprecedented proportions has taken over the landscape.
Archaeology is, or at least ought to be, about more than
just picking up artifacts to gather dust on the shelves of crowded
museum storerooms.
It may seem like a considerable departure for High Country
News to write about mental illness and suicide, but as Ray
Ring’s deeply personal lead story shows, both tragedies are
rooted in the West.
Indian tribes were left out of the negotiations that
divvied up the Colorado River in 1922, but it’s no longer
possible to ignore them – particularly in the case of the
Navajo Nation.
Quagga mussels hit the jackpot in Nevada; Lakes Mead and
Powell are in trouble; lots and lots and lots of snow – and a
few ambitious ski resorts; and Colorado is building a vegetated
overpass for wildlife on I-70.
Fiction: A child's road trip to the Salton Sea
The transformation of once-scrappy mining towns like
Silverton, Colo., and Superior, Ariz., into trendy tourist havens
is bound to leave the locals with mixed feelings and some
nostalgia.
A copper-mining company is courting Superior, Ariz., but
the former mining town – now re-inventing itself as a modest
tourist haven – is unsure whether it really wants a new
marriage with extractive industry.
Something deeper than party lines is at work in Western
politics.
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