Thank you for vindicating my suspicions that deer read the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (“Rewilding is a two-way street,” July 29, 2021). Will re-up my subscription. Wendy WolfsonIrvine, Colorado This article appeared in the print edition of the magazine with the headline Rewilding is a two-way street.
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Posted inOctober 1, 2021: In The Graces of Grasses
Sucked dry
Killing the land, pumping the aquifers dry, disturbing the entire ecosystem … for what? Maybe 25 years before it is abandoned because there is nothing left!? This was the most depressing and disturbing article (“Sucked Dry,” August 2021); it was all I could do to finish it. We will end up destroying ourselves, guaranteeing we will […]
Posted inOctober 1, 2021: In The Graces of Grasses
What we need to live well in the West
Some notes on a pandemic-tainted reality.
Posted inOctober 1, 2021: In The Graces of Grasses
A recovered sum; a bear with a job; a loss of goofy trees
Mishaps and mayhem from around the region.
Posted inOctober 1, 2021: In The Graces of Grasses
Where do public lands factor into the homelessness crisis?
As the housing crisis in the West deepens, more unhoused people are making a home outside.
Posted inOctober 1, 2021: In The Graces of Grasses
The time of the Indigenous critic has arrived
Now that the industry is finally greenlighting Indigenous films and TV, Indigenous critics ought to lead the conversation.
Posted inOctober 1, 2021: In The Graces of Grasses
Behind the wire with a fence ecologist
How researchers are using science and data to help wildlife.
Posted inNovember 1, 2021: The Radioactive Waste Next Door
The White Sands discovery only confirms what Indigenous people have said all along
Once again, the media has excluded Indigenous peoples from our own story.
Posted inOctober 1, 2021: In The Graces of Grasses
When public health becomes the public enemy
Far-right extremists are robbing the West of the officials who protect community health.
Posted inOctober 1, 2021: In The Graces of Grasses
Fuel for the electrical fire
Utility equipment sparks blazes, but climate change stokes them.
Posted inOctober 1, 2021: In The Graces of Grasses
In Arizona, a radical change in juvenile detention
How a rural town transformed a juvenile facility into a safe space for teens.
Posted inOctober 1, 2021: In The Graces of Grasses
How wildlife sightings create community
What we share and what we keep quiet in small mountain towns.
Posted inOctober 1, 2021: In The Graces of Grasses
Reaching across Colorado’s racial frontiers
Jenny Shank’s new story collection ‘Mixed Company’ reveals racial fault lines in the Centennial State.
Posted inOctober 1, 2021: In The Graces of Grasses
What rebuilding from wildfire looks like
A photographer intimately documents how families are recovering one year after the Almeda Fire.
Posted inOctober 1, 2021: In The Graces of Grasses
Idaho denies proposed land exchange
The state found that the timber tracts offered in a proposed trade are worth much less than the land around Payette Lake.
Posted inSeptember 1, 2021: Where Wolves May Tread
Corporate agricultural
Thank you for the August article about the mega-dairy coming to Arizona and its impact on our water supply. This installation is representative of the larger problem of corporate agricultural interests exporting our resources. The political powers are reluctant to do anything about it because the industry promises jobs and revenues. It can’t go on […]
Posted inSeptember 1, 2021: Where Wolves May Tread
The new animal voyeurism
Captured on film but still losing habitat.
Posted inSeptember 1, 2021: Where Wolves May Tread
“Integrity is about doing the right thing”
“Sucked Dry” provides an important and powerful look at the mega-dairy industry. The repeated disregard by Riverview LLP for people, water and climate is telling. The company is destroying water supplies across the states it operates in, leaving thousands of people with dry wells. The carbon and methane emissions from these mega-dairies is, arguably, immoral, […]
Posted inSeptember 1, 2021: Where Wolves May Tread
Pounding on “mega corporations”
HCN’s writers frequently pound on “mega corporations,” perhaps because its audience, over time, has self-selected to people who like that sort of thing. The concerns about water use are legitimate, but corporate farms do not emit, overall, more pollution than the aggregate of family farms. They may produce more waste in fewer locations, but smaller farms, […]
Posted inSeptember 1, 2021: Where Wolves May Tread
Reassessing the dams
Sadly, removal of Washington’s Gorge Dam will not slow, let alone reverse, the declining native salmon populations that once thrived in the magnificent 160-plus-mile Skagit-Cascade-Sauk-Suiattle Wild and Scenic River System (“Reassessing the dams,” August 2021). It’s true that “the licensing process has triggered different conversations on the Skagit’s future.” Unfortunately, the author focused on a tiny, […]