For more than 50 years, our amazing readers have sustained our work through subscriptions and donations.
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Thanks to generous readers, we host our largest cohort ever.
Departures and additions to our honor-worthy volunteers.
Our thanks to retiring board members and a quest for new people to help the organization set course.
After five years at the helm, Brian Calvert is off to the next big thing.
High Country News gets a new trail guide.
… and how does it change our views of this place?
The magazine refreshes its brand and frequency as we plunge into the future.
As the organization enters its 50th year, we prepare for the future.
From progressive policies to bumper-to-bumper traffic, the Golden State is larger than a sum of its parts.
The West continues to morph from growth and climate change.
The past, present and future of the West, and HCN’s coverage of the region.
It’s a dangerous and promising time. HCN seeks to tell the many stories of the West.
Environmental laws are one way to force people to consider their actions.
Embrace incongruity, both domesticated and the wonderfully wild.
Climate change is here, but nuclear power as a solution faces economical and historical challenges.
The friction between Colorado’s growing population and gas-drilling infrastructure remains explosive, sometimes literally.
How the man who ‘just wanted to write’ created an institution.
There are many ways a determined outsider can transform a place.
Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke is trying to incite fear and hate, rather than solve complex problems.
Flood and drought have shaped the West, and humans are often unprepared.
The staff takes on a more geographically dispersed model of organization.
The complex layers of history that underlie our region include both ugliness and beauty.
Western mythology still holds tremendous sway.
From the Bundys to #NoDAPL, protest movements in the West thrive.
The 2017 fire season has made it clear our current policies don’t work.
The budget-starved Forest Service gives jobs to the lowest bidder instead of local communities.
Humans have always trekked paths to new places.
A solar eclipse comes to the West as solar energy surges past coal.
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