Including some former staffers, Bryce Gray and Lyndsey Gilpin.
Summer visits from dear friends
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Slow progress on Park Service harassment
The agency begins to deliver on promises to confront sexual harassment.
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Will Utah dam the Bear River?
The Wasatch Front faces drier times and a growing population, threatening the Great Salt Lake.
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After its dams came down, a river is reborn
A look at the Elwha unleashed.
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Down with the Glen Canyon Dam?
Activists claim that decommissioning the dam will save water and restore a wild canyon. Are they right?
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Restrictions on wreckreation; wildfire season, by the numbers; flash drought
HCN.org news in brief.
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A return to the Snake River
Taking a trip down the undammed section of Hells Canyon.
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Listen deep, be silent
A Response to Brian Calvert’s article “Down the Dark Mountain” (HCN, 7/24/17): Yes, all these famous men these deep thinkers we revere make laments in beautiful words while the world goes on. While women give birth, nurse babies care for sick and dying parents. While nuns shelter the poor, teach in ghettos, visit death row […]
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Into the dark miasma
As a former HCN board member and former journalist, I write to express my disappointment and frustration with the lead article “Down the Dark Mountain” (HCN, 7/24/17) which was headlined on your front page as a guide to the ongoing ecocide of the planet. This article trivializes the coming disaster. For nine pages it wanders […]
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Owls stuck in toilets; Otter attacks tuber; Mr. Mayor: Stubbs the cat
Mishaps and mayhem from around the region.
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Healing the landscape, healing ourselves
I felt compelled to share these thoughts with you after I read “Down the Dark Mountain” by Brian Calvert (HCN, 7/24/17). I spent seven years working for the U.S. Forest Service cleaning up logging slash in clear-cuts. Although I actively provided input to timber-sale projects, the decision was always to log. My personal answer to […]
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Awake at night and listening to coyotes
Man-made sounds elicit a wild ruckus in the Bitterroot Valley.
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Dams are a divisive issue, but do they need to be?
What we can learn from the Elwa River.
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How we risked losing the West
A look back at how range science misled land managers.
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National monuments protect meaning, not just landscapes
If Bears Ears shrinks, it will be to our national cultural detriment.
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The long fight against Joe Arpaio will continue
How ‘America’s toughest sheriff’ galvanized a movement among Arizona Latinos.
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A community copes with record low salmon returns
On the Fraser River, faltering salmon populations have impacted tribes and urban economies.
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Why the Bundy crew keeps winning in court
The feds just lost another case against public lands occupiers.
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Colorado’s biggest methane emitter may get a discount
In exchange, the state asks a coal mine to trap its gas—but the BLM won’t require it.
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Where federal agencies are failing Indian Country
A government report shows ‘high-risk’ problems haven’t been addressed.