HCN is now 41, so it's time to get on with another four decades of reporting and inspiring debate in the West.
Items by Robyn Morrison
Twenty years ago, Ed Marston found reform taking root in the West
The Marstons prodded the West to sit down and talk
A look back at James Watt's undoing of Interior
A look back to 1983 when the Colorado River almost tore out Glen Canyon Dam
HCN trades small town Wyoming for small town Colorado
North Dakota's oil fields are booming….is this 1982 or 2010?
A devastating car crash in 1978 results in another miracle for the institution
Coal mine disaster is a stark reminder of the human costs of energy production.
One thing hasn't changed in 40 years - HCN readers instigate lively debate
Founder Tom Bell's successors try to strike a chord among a broader audience across the West.
A young couple is tapped to fill a 'big set of Vibrams'
Candid words from a feisty, cowboy-hat-wearing eco-nut of the '70's.
How High Country News was resurrected ... twice.
40 years ago Wyoming rancher and wildlife biologist Tom Bell set the tone for High Country News
High Country News turns 40.
A homegrown consensus effort called the Owyhee Initiative
is trying to save both wilderness and ranching in southwestern
Idaho – but in the polarized Bush era, consensus is often
controversial
The Access Fund says it’s out to prove that climbers
care about the environment, but some say that the group’s
tactics are no different from any wise-use group’s
Hueco Tanks State Historic Site near El Paso, Texas, had
to enact strict regulations governing climbing after the
area’s rock art was vandalized
A look at popular climbing areas around the West shows
both the problems – and the solutions – inspired by the
popularity of rock climbing
Bishop, Calif., is a hot spot for the lively new sport of
bouldering, but some fear that the new generation of rock-climbers
is short on environmental ethics, treating nature as little more
than an outdoor climbing gym
Erie, Colo., one of the country’s fastest-growing
communities, is trying to slow development down, with the help of a
controversial anti-growth mayor, Barbara Connors.
Michael Brown’s documentary, Dust to
Dust, tells the story of Libby, Mont., and the struggle
of its people against deadly disease caused by asbestos-laced dust
from a vermiculate mine
Residents of Castle Valley, Utah, are working with the
state trust lands agency to find a way to preserve open space while
also raising more money for schools
In Colorado, a long-dead notion to clear-cut forests to
increase water runoff is resurrected in a time of
drought.
Poor but coal-rich Delta County, Colo., made history when
its county commissioners, responding to a determined citizens'
movement, voted to deny four coalbed methane test wells and attach
conditions to the drilling of a fifth.
A draft plan by Moffat County, Colo., commissioners to
turn over control of 1.7 million acres of federal land to local
trustees draws the ire of environmentalist Jon Marvel of the
Western Watersheds Project.
The Southern Ute Tribe is upset with Colorado state
officials for issuing a permit to allow two coalbed-methane wells
to spill polluted water into the Florida River, upstream from the
tribe.
Residents of Colorado's San Luis Valley are pleased at the
prospect of the Great Sand Dunes National Monument adding the
neighboring Baca Ranch and becoming a national park.
The Mormon Church is working to purchase a national
historic site along the Oregon Trail in Wyoming, where nearly 200
Mormon pioneers died in the winter of 1856.
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