An interactive, year-by-year look at the current insurgency.
Items by Marshall Swearingen
Don’t count on wildfires to alter how counties plan development in fire-prone zones.
The animals’ sturdy nests can preserve clues about the climate for 50,000 years or more.
The agency has armed up since 1978, but it’s still outgunned without local backup.
Johnny Horizon and Seymour Antelope show the agency's changing focus.
In confrontations with armed groups like the Bundy supporters, local law enforcement matters most.
The fourth in a series celebrating our 45th Anniversary.
The third in a series celebrating our 45th anniversary.
The second in a series celebrating our 45th anniversary
The first in a series celebrating our 45th anniversary
Continuing the tradition of in-depth, passionate coverage of the West’s defining issues.
One step forward, two steps back, starting from 1995.
The constitutionalist group Oath Keepers is defending a mine that the Forest Service says is out of compliance.
Fatalities, backcountry trips, ATVs and Denali summit attempts over the years.
The presidential power tool for land conservation since Teddy Roosevelt.
Ranchers, landowners, environmentalists still disagree over the designation.
Forty-five years of High Country News boom and bust cover stories.
A neighborhood solar experiment in Washington gains traction in other states.
Public lands belong to everyone. But private landowners can make it hard to get to them.
Intimidation of federal officials is widespread across the West.
Public-land employees are easy targets for a violent, government-hating fringe.
Excerpts from official accounts of threats against U.S. Forest Service and BLM employees.
Real-time response to demand could radically shift how the grid operates.
The U.S. and Canada prepare to renegotiate the 50-year-old Columbia River Treaty.
What happens when an old mining town recruits a physics lab and pursues Big Science?
Some of the last surviving salmon-based cultures turn to the EPA to protect their communities.
The region has become an important source of the technologically vital gas.
Can Colorado ranchers and the Forest Service work together to erase old mining scars?
The industry hopes Wyoming's coal bonanza lasts another 100 years. But mining's peaks and valleys have never been entirely in its control.
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