#iamthewest: Giving voice to the people that make up communities in the region.
‘How many bricks of colonization do we sit under?’
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Invasive fruit fly hits the Yakama Nation’s huckleberry fields
Students from Heritage University and Northwest Indian College were the first to document the presence of the spotted wing drosophila on the Yakama Nation Reservation — a first step to help eradicate it on tribal land.
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How to build a food sovereignty lab
Bureaucracy and budget constraints couldn’t stop CalPoly Humboldt’s Native American Studies Department from founding an Indigenous foods research lab.
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Resistance to data centers rises on the border
In Doña Ana County, New Mexico, residents have long struggled to access clean water. Now, developers plan to spend $165 billion on a massive data center complex.
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What eating bitterness has to do with Chinese food
The Chinese immigrants who built the Transcontinental Railroad quietly endured racism and violence, fostering a complicated legacy for Chinese-Americans.
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Access to public land? There’s an app for that
Tech is facilitating land access in new, and sometimes fraught, ways.
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How to comment on the planned roadless rule rollback
The deadline to weigh in on the change is 11:59 p.m. Eastern Time on Sept. 19.
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The Rio Grande’s pecan problem
How Big Ag is threatening New Mexico’s water supply.
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Acknowledging the hands that feed us
Narsiso Martinez aims to dignify farmworkers through his artwork
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The messy reality of feeding Alaska
After Trump threatened Canada, a writer discovers the uncertainty of the state’s food supply chain.
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Firefighters question leaders’ role in ICE raid near Bear Gulch Fire
Firefighting veterans believe the management team overseeing fire crews played a key role in handing team members over to immigration authorities.
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Who controls food in the West?
Consolidation, shifting politics, water rights and the myth of the cowboy all play into the region’s ability to feed itself.
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How an immigration raid reshaped meatpacking — and America
In 2006, large-scale ICE raids in Greeley, Colorado, and elsewhere, triggered changes to the center of the country that fed today’s nativist politics.
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What makes a community activist optimistic
After 85 years, Luis Torres still has answers to our many challenges.
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What’s behind your fork?
High Country News and the Food & Environment Reporting Network ventured to find out.
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Letters to the Editor, September 2025
Comments from readers.
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How a Utah wildfire created its own tornado
Firefighters were caught in a pyro-vortex last month on the Deer Creek Fire.
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Trump looks to suffocate public lands
The administration and Congress divert funds away from conservation.
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The invisible ‘giant nets’ that catch the smallest songbirds
Collaboration and tiny technology are revolutionizing the study of migration.