The very economic decline that contributed to their closure is likely to be worsened by their disappearance.
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September 5, 2016
Why disappearing rural hospitals spell trouble for the Central Valley. In this special feature, High Country News looks at the troubled rural Western healthcare system. Plus, when to say yes to invasive plants, Alaska’s overtaxed firefighters and New Mexico’s oldest climate correspondent.
Feature
In New Mexico, an experiment in treating stroke victims at a distance.
Changing demographics, including an aging rural population, put more pressure on health care systems.
A group of ten New Mexico hospitals is making a go of it in tough times.
In Colorado, a new movement aims to provide an alternative for people experiencing mental health crises. But does it work?
Current
The state is grappling with more fires and fewer fighters where they need them.
Buried in petitions to list new species, the Fish and Wildlife Service proposes a system for prioritizing who gets help first.
A conversation with climate science director Stephen Jackson about why and where we should tolerate non-native invaders.
Three major coal companies have filed for bankruptcy this year.
Uncommon Westerners
Anna Mae Wright has spent seven decades recording the weather.
Essays
After prairie dogs invade a corner of her lot, a writer weighs the cost of eliminating them.
Writers on the Range
A radical change could be coming to the way electric co-ops across the country do business.
Heard Around the West
Mishaps and mayhem from around the region.
Dear Friends
Letters
- One woman took a stand against tribal disenrollment and paid for it
- A viral coyote-badger video demonstrates the incredible complexity of nature
- Billionaires are changing communities and the wild in Wyoming
- Interior finalizes plans to welcome industry into Utah monuments
- Ranchers blindsided by Trump’s border wall
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