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The January issue caught my attention, touching on issues with historical and current causes in my areas of interest. The best was the essay by Kimberly Myra Mitchell (“Through wildland firefighting, finding a space to heal”).  I won’t try to put into words the emotions I felt as I finished reading it! I cried. Tommy […]

I am writing to thank you for Eric Siegel’s piece about the Tenacious Unicorn transgender alpaca farm. As an East Coast city-dweller, I am surely not the target audience, but it definitely struck close to home. I grew up in a small town in the country but left because I couldn’t see a future there as […]

I’m a recent subscriber, and while I love the magazine generally, I have to express special admiration for Eric Siegel and Luna Anna Archey’s “Queers, alpacas and guns.” It often seems there is a consensus that certain communities can only find homes in either our urban or our rural spaces, but not both. This has never actually been true, and articles […]

The problems revealed in your interview with Jackie Fielder (“Is it time to decolonize the housing market?” February 2021) are as real as they have been for the history of our nation. The pandemic and the renter problems it has caused and magnified are huge and absolutely impossible to ignore. If we don’t answer the challenge and […]

Jessica Kutz’s article about coal on the Diné and Hopi lands was both heartbreaking and uplifting (“Life After Coal,” February 2021).  What a perfect place, generally and geographically, for the new Biden administration to walk its talk about supporting Indigenous nations while addressing climate change by fully enabling, with federal funds, the transition to carbon-neutral […]

Just finished “Queers, alpacas, guns” (February 2021). It is why I love HCN. Great example of how sometimes you just have to show up and find what is out there — how people learn to coexist where least expected. Keep up the good work. Patricia WestHarrisburg, Pennsylvania This article appeared in the print edition of the […]

Thank you for High Country News in general and especially your recent article on the winds of change (“Pro-Trump riots won’t stop the winds of political change blowing in the West,” 1/11/21, web-only). As an Idaho Democrat, it is very helpful to hear this right now. I hope some of those winds blow this way, […]