2008 Press Releases

LOOTING OF SOUTHWEST ARCHAEOLOGICAL SITES CONTINUES: High Country News, the award-winning news magazine of the American West, investigates the seamy underside of Southwest archaeological site exploration and artifact removal. A land once rich with ancestry has been scraped clean.
LOCAL EXPERTS TO DEBATE FUTURE OF VALLEY OF THE SUN: High Country News is sponsoring a panel discussion in Scottsdale entitled “Ancient Voices, Modern Times; The Future of Phoenix – Will History Repeat Itself in the Valley of the Sun?” The free public event will be held 7-9 p.m. Saturday, January 19, at ASU’s Kerr Cultural Center, 6110 N. Scottsdale Road, Scottsdale, AZ.
Roughnecks killed by cavalier working conditions: High Country News Northern Rockies editor Ray Ring is at it again. After winning the George Polk Award last year, Ring has written another block-buster story, detailing in stark human terms just how dangerous working in the oil and gas fields of the American West can be, and just how cavalier oil and gas companies have been about protecting their human resources. Ring uncovered a disconcerting number of fatal accidents in the field and a disconcerting tendency of government regulators to fine drilling companies making tens and even hundreds of millions of dollars each year pittances — a couple of thousand dollars — for safety violations that kill.

Rancher vs BLM: a 20-year standoff ends with tense roundup |
Photos of a standoff | Armed militia members join a Nevada rancher to pro...
The energy haves and have-nots | Will rooftop solar owners get off the grid — and...
Why homes are lost to wildfire | This Forest Service expert says it's as much a soc...
The future of the Sacramento Delta hangs in the balance | But few Californians seem to grasp what is at stak...

Why homes are lost to wildfire | This Forest Service expert says it's as much a soc...
Photos of a standoff | Armed militia members join a Nevada rancher to pro...
The energy haves and have-nots | Will rooftop solar owners get off the grid — and...
Will the Colorado River reach the Gulf of California once more? | Photographs of last month's historic water pulses....
Locals resist a Bakkenization of the Beartooths | South-central Montanans oppose new drilling, forew...