Painters and the American West, Vol. IIJoan Carpenter Troccoli, et al.,344 pages, cloth: $80. University of Oklahoma Press, 2013. In Painters and the American West, Vol. 2, retired art scholar and museum director Joan Carpenter Troccoli writes about the lives and times of the artists whose works fill the American Museum of Western Art in […]
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Hikers face assorted hazards, bull elk get revenge on hunters, and more
What have you heard?
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Kids will be kids
See a full gallery of Rebecca Drobis’s images from the Blackfeet Reservation here. On the Blackfeet Reservation in northern Montana, winters are long and difficult, unemployment is high and infrastructure lacking. Children grow up without the latest video games and movies or a rigid schedule of activities. But despite the sometimes-harsh realities of the reservation, […]
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The Latest: A House bill would double timber harvest
BackstoryWestern counties that once relied on timber revenue, especially in Oregon, now depend instead on federal aid provided by the Secure Rural Schools Act. But the law expired this year, and federal forest managers are trying new logging methods to increase income while also protecting forests. However, state and federal lawmakers continually press for higher […]
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The Latest: In Oregon, a record number of spawning salmon
BackstorySome 16 million salmon and steelhead once returned to the Columbia River Basin each fall, but impediments like the Bonneville Dam near Portland, Ore., decimated their numbers. Costly recovery efforts and courtroom battles brought only marginal improvements, and populations were largely supported by hatchery stock. In 2006, court-mandated spillovers — running less water through turbines […]
Posted inSeptember 16, 2013: Intimate Geographies
Ruth Kirk, pioneering guidebook author
A natural and human histories expert of the West reflects on her work.
Posted inFebruary 6, 2012: Can evolution help snowshoe hares adapt to climate change?
Can snowshoe hares outrace climate change?
Winner of National Association of Science Writers’ 2013 Science in Society Award!
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Marginalia: an essay
On a trek across the Arctic, a writer’s map becomes a record of the journey.
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At Capitol Reef, the Mormons made the desert fruitful
The largest orchard in any national park is surrounded by some of the driest desert in southern Utah. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/18.10/download-entire-issue
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A California essayist on American optimism and how landscape shapes our imaginations
An interview with Richard Rodriguez.
Posted inSeptember 16, 2013: Intimate Geographies
Reconciling family narrative with textbook history in Montana’s Bighorn Valley
An essay by Joe Wilkins.
Posted inSeptember 16, 2013: Intimate Geographies
Colorado Poet Laureate David Mason’s four-year road trip
Bringing poetry to an entire state, one county at a time.
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The renegade cartographer
Dave Imus challenges the murkiness of modern mapmaking.
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See you in October
As we do four times a year, High Country News is skipping an issue. We’ll be back in your mailbox around Oct. 14. In the meantime, keep up with us at hcn.org, and eat as many homegrown tomatoes as you can; they won’t last forever. Summer visitors Longtime subscriber Brian Jatlin came by our Paonia, […]
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Craig Childs narrates a Canyonlands adventure
Images from a month-long trip with friends in 1999.
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The reading season
After the summer’s whirl of activity, after the mountains have been hiked and the rivers have been run and the garden has been weeded for what we hope to God is the final round, it’s a good time to kick back with a book. Fall invites a slower pace, gives us lazy afternoons by the […]
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What do you know?
Author Percival Everett defies categories and generalizations.
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A puzzle of memory and vision
Boneland: Linked StoriesNance Van Winckel196 pages, softcover: $16.95.University of Oklahoma Press, 2013. Loss — real and potential — casts a shadow over the lives of the characters in Washington writer Nance Van Winckel’s poignant, deeply interconnected short stories. At the center of the collection is Lynette, who seems as trouble-prone as she is resilient. In […]
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Heart-Shaped River: Craig Childs finds his center in Canyonlands
“Not all maps are made of paper. The best ones are spooled in memory.”
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Desert solitude, desert community
Brother and the DancerKeenan Norris266 pages, softcover:$15.Heyday Books, 2013. Gang wars, drive-by shootings, drug sales, poverty — San Bernardino County was, as Keenan Norris explains in his debut novel, Brother and the Dancer, “one of the most violent places in America” at the millennium. The area surrounding his hometown of Highland, Calif., he notes ruefully, […]