High Country News holds its first-ever board meeting via telephone and Internet; Marty Durlin becomes new culture editor.
Items by Paul Larmer
Arguing about water is a beloved Western pastime, but as the snowpack shrinks, Coloradoans are going to find themselves seriously fighting over what’s left in the Colorado River.
In small Western towns, schoolkids – and their parents – often make long journeys over rugged mountain roads just to play other high school sports teams.
HCN’s readers pitch in financially; new interns Terray Sylvester, Emily Underwood and Jeff Chen arrive.
Paul Larmer reminds us that it will take more than a single environmental hero – like Tim DeChristopher, who cleverly sabotaged a BLM energy-lease auction – to reform the agency.
Paul Larmer reminds us that it will take more than a single environmental hero – like Tim DeChristopher, who cleverly sabotaged a BLM energy-lease auction – to reform the agency.
There are lessons to be learned from the mistakes that were made, not only in the near-extermination of the wolf, but also in its successful reintroduction.
Photographer Grant Heilman talks about his life and work in the West.
Today’s redesigned High Country News is definitely a magazine, far removed from the black-and-white tabloid newspaper it once was.
Growing corn in the interior West ain't no picnic.
In today’s complicated West, where retirees battle
energy companies and environmentalists fight transmission lines
carrying green power, maybe we need some heroic cowboys to help
straighten everything out.
How far are we willing to go to accommodate wild
creatures?
Protecting environmentally sensitive Western lands from
the current oil and gas frenzy is a challenge to the
conservationists who file protests with the BLM.
The West's abundant resources below ground have supplied
much of the power for the U.S. in the past; are renewables
next?
The Salton Sea might appear to be dying, but like many
another story in the West, it isn’t over with yet.
A Phoenix symposium on dealing with drought and global
warming echoes the larger uncertainties facing public-land and
national park managers throughout the West.
Despite the rhetoric of the Sagebrush Rebel lawyers, most
of today’s Westerners understand that the public land is a
national resource that belongs to all of us.
In a West made up of newcomers, it’s hard to tell
who really counts as a native – even when it comes to exotic
plants such as the infamous tamarisk.
Editor John Mecklin to step down, Jonathan Thompson to
step up; visitors; clarification on Rebecca Solnit
interview.
A showdown in Idaho pits bighorn sheep lovers against
longtime sheep ranchers, but if people are willing to work
together, this grazing knot can be untied.
Meet HCN in Salt Lake City; hasta la vista, Gretchen
Nicholoff; visitors; Robert Funkhouser dies; correction.
Recent Western fires have cleared the stage for the
rampant growth of highly flammable exotic plants such as cheatgrass
and the buffelgrass now invading the Sonoran Desert
Hunters have done a huge amount over the years to preserve
wildlife and habitat, but the powerful group Sportsmen for Fish and
Wildlife, with its obsessive focus on killing predators, seems to
be taking a step backward
Sometimes it seems that only the impact of a severe
drought can get Westerners to work together on water
issues
In his beautiful, compact book Working Wilderness, Nathan
Sayres tells the story of the Malpai Borderlands Group, “the
most hailed example of collaborative place-based resource
management in the West.”
Q and A with Ann Morgan, the former Colorado director of
the BLM, who recently testified before Congress about the agency's
push to open its lands to drilling.
Despite a relatively snowy winter here in western
Colorado, the season itself seems to have shrunk, with spring
arriving weeks earlier than it once did in a trend with ominous
consequences for the desert Southwest, particularly
Phoenix.
Just as winter turns into spring, Paul Larmer watches a
young elk die in western Colorado.
The rapid spread of invasive species like quagga and zebra
mussels could transform the once-isolated and ecologically unique
West into just another McDonaldized patch of the planet.
This issue’s cover essay on New Mexico’s gas
fields – and our publisher’s adventures during a recent
snowstorm in Paonia – reveal the complex links that bind
Westerners together for better or worse
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