Meet up with the HCN community
And send us your bumper sticker ideas!
High Country News staffers have been crisscrossing the West in recent months, meeting with supporters in California, Utah, Colorado, Arizona, Oregon and a few other places along the way.
Getting to visit with our friends in person is not only important for keeping our community informed and engaged with HCN — it’s a good time, too! Luckily, with our Board of Directors meeting this month in Albuquerque, we have a good excuse to put out a wider invitation to an in-person event.
If you’re in the area, please join the board and staff on May 19 for a panel discussion open to all readers and friends. Laura Paskus, environmental producer for New Mexico PBS and a former assistant editor at HCN, will be leading the conversation. Know someone who seems like they’d be an HCN-type person if only they got an invitation? Bring them along! Visit
hcn.org/abq-may-19 for more details about the event.
Meanwhile, this page, “Dear Friends,” will help keep you plugged into what’s happening around here each and every month.
We’ve shared community news, invites to virtual events, requests to fill out reader surveys, solicited your ideas (where should our archives go?), shared fun things like the summer reading contest (stay tuned for this year’s challenge!) and published Q&As with staff, introducing you to new folks and opening a window into our thinking.
But I want to hear more from you. My door is always open at [email protected] if you have community news to share. Tell me about friends of HCN who are doing some good, people doing something special in their Western communities or other inspirational happenings from across the region. I’m also going to put more questions directly to you on a monthly basis. Nothing complicated, like whether thinning is the same as logging, just casual, low-stakes queries.
Which brings me to my question: Do you have a High Country News bumper sticker? If so, can you send me a photo? We’re running low on our current stickers, and I’m curious about what’s out there in the wild. If you don’t yet have HCN emblazoned on your car, rack, roof box, cooler, etc. — email me and we’ll get you something to fix that. Meanwhile, what is your favorite bumper sticker? I’m partial to “Too cold for them, just right for us,” which I picked up recently at Tourist, the local gear shop in Santa Fe, and “You gotta be pretty to live in the city,” which I spotted years ago on a Steamboat Springs city vehicle. It remains inscrutable to me, which is probably why I like it.
A well-placed, interesting sticker can spark a conversation or forge an instant connection, and I’d love for our next lot of stickers to bring that magic to trailheads, take-outs, lift lines and campsites across the West for years to come. HCN’s finest ambassadors are members of our community, so who knows what works on a sticker better than you do? Send us what you got!
Question of the month
Do you have an HCN bumper sticker? Let us know which one you have or send us a photo. Don’t have one? Send us your favorite sticker tagline, and we’ll send you a fresh sticker hot off the press as soon as we can.
Send your answer or photo to [email protected].
HCN in ABQ
Join High Country News’ Board of Directors, staff and friends in Albuquerque on May 19 for a panel discussion hosted by Laura Paskus, a former HCN assistant editor and current environmental producer for New Mexico PBS. She’ll be joined by Jonathan Juarez-Alonzo, of Youth United For Climate Crisis Action (YUCCA), Samantha Ruscavage-Barz, legal director of WildEarth Guardians, and Kayley Shoup, of Citizens Caring for the Future, in a conversation about the unsustainable and exploitative fossil fuel extraction happening in the Albuquerque region.
Visit hcn.org/abq-may-19 for more details and to RSVP.
Michael Schrantz is the marketing communications manager for High Country News based in Santa Fe. Email him at [email protected] or submit a letter to the editor. See our letters to the editor policy.
