Magazine
Dancing with Climate Change

October 1, 2010

In California's White Mountains, scientists ponder the fate of bristlecone pines and butterflies in a rapidly warming world.

Feature

Dancing with Climate Change
Dancing with Climate Change
In California's White Mountains, scientists ponder the fate of beardtongues, bristlecone pines and butterflies in a rapidly warming world.
J. Madeleine Nash Oct. 4, 2010 From the print edition
Once More Unto The Breach
Once More Unto The Breach
Controversial guidebook author Michael Kelsey takes a writer into Utah's notorious Black Hole.
Jeremy Miller Oct. 11, 2010 From the print edition

Sidebar

Computer model slices and dices mountain climates
Computer model slices and dices mountain climates
In Oregon's H.J. Andrews Experimental Forest, scientists study climate patterns.
J. Madeleine Nash Oct. 4, 2010 From the print edition

Current

Frack forward
Frack forward
Wyoming's tough new hydraulic fracturing rules are meant to keep federal regulators at bay.
Cally Carswell Oct. 6, 2010 From the print edition
Deadly crossing
July 2010 was the second-deadliest month ever for border-crossers in southern Arizona.
Denver Nicks Oct. 11, 2010 From the print edition
Breathing easy
Breathing easy
In West Oakland, Calif., the Breathmobile fights inner city asthma.
Stephanie Paige Ogburn Oct. 8, 2010 From the print edition
The birds and the bee(tle)s
The birds and the bee(tle)s
A controversial tamarisk control program is shut down over worries that it threatens rare southwestern willow flycatchers.
Rachel Zurer Oct. 13, 2010 From the print edition

Editor's Note

Microclimates, macro problem
Microclimates, macro problem
As humans rely on our ingenuity to cope with climate change, wild plants and animals take refuge in the mountains’ microclimates.
Jodi Peterson Opinion Oct. 21, 2010 From the print edition

Essays

Fighting the logic of fire
Fighting the logic of fire
When her new home is threatened by the Fourmile Fire in Boulder, Colo., a writer reassesses her love for the West.
Alexandra Witze Essay Oct. 15, 2010 From the print edition

Book Reviews

No walk in the park
No walk in the park
In his compassionate, understated memoir, Walking Home, Lynn Schooler hikes across rugged Southeast Alaska.
Michael Engelhard Oct. 11, 2010 From the print edition
'The music of men's lives'
'The music of men's lives'
In his new novel, Work Song, Ivan Doig describes the struggle between mine owners and union activists in post-WWI Butte, Mont.
Kathleen Yale Oct. 11, 2010 From the print edition

Dear Friends

A tight -- but stable -- budget, and a big bash
A tight -- but stable -- budget, and a big bash
High Country News hosts a big anniversary party and board meeting in Fort Collins, Colo.; summer visitors.
Paul Larmer and Jodi Peterson Oct. 11, 2010 From the print edition

Letters

A Bell-wether for the young
Bob Raynolds Oct. 5, 2010 From the print edition
Give-'em-hell Bell
Bradley Berthold Oct. 5, 2010 From the print edition
Even in Wyoming
John Fandek Oct. 5, 2010 From the print edition
Forget the ultralights
No spike too small
Ken Kyburz Oct. 5, 2010 From the print edition
Pro-social justice, pro-environment, pro-Mormon
Patrick N. Naylor Oct. 5, 2010 From the print edition
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