A new book seeks to make sense of the hated canid’s history.
Why are coyotes so polarizing?
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‘My Montana’: Depictions that resist Western myths
The works of painter Theodore Waddell, a rancher and Montanan.
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On nature and human nature
We’re tied to the natural world — despite our efforts to the contrary.
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Old friends and new adventures
Wildflowers abound in the Colorado Rockies right now, and as warmer weather settles in, yellow glacier lilies and purple two-lobed larkspur have begun to grace our hikes. What a great time to welcome back an old friend — Michelle McClellen, who interned at HCN in 1996. Michelle was visiting Four Corners and Mesa Verde National […]
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Mutual support, joint action
In his editor’s note in the May 1 issue, (“Exploitation and the West”), Brian Calvert states a truth: “The same person who would eagerly exploit a human being will just as easily exploit a landscape.” This may seem obvious to younger readers, but for many decades the environmental movement did not get it; public-land activists […]
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Meet Nevada’s cow cops
Where crime scene investigators ride the range.
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FLDS leaders are ‘crime bosses’
“Change Comes to Short Creek” by Sarah Scoles illustrates why we need an impenetrable wall of separation between church and state (HCN, 5/1/17). If you ignore the religious blather of the leaders of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and look at what they are actually doing, you can see that civil […]
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Anticipating the next ‘Big One’ in Anchorage
Can an imminent disaster draw tourists to Alaska’s largest city?
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Elliott for all; Missed connections; Logging in monuments?
HCN.org news in brief.
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Avoiding the ‘Moab model’
We just returned from our annual sojourn to southern Utah, visiting Canyonlands, a portion of the new Bears Ears National Monument and our beloved Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument. And we couldn’t disagree more with Jim Stiles’ claims that national monument designation harms the land and nearby communities (“Help for Bears Ears?” HCN, 5/1/17). In the […]
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An industrious badger; misspelled markers of death; a political shooting match
Mishaps and mayhem from around the region.
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The cost of the bighorn comeback
In California’s Eastern Sierra, bringing back bighorn has meant killing more mountain lions.
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In these Western cities, using less water costs more
Some homes pay five times as much as others for the same amount of water.
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Republican wins Montana election, despite violence
Rep. Greg Gianforte starts his tenure with assault charges.
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Week in review: May 26
Another Anadarko oil explosion, protestors at FERC and landslides in Big Sur.
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Meet Jane, a climate scientist who fled Trump’s government
Worries about science censorship drove her from her post at the Energy Department.
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Meet the people in the path of a massive pipeline expansion
Standing Rock tactics are being used in a Canada pipeline fight.
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How low-wage immigrant workers are reviving unions
In Los Angeles, a steady movement takes hold under the Trump administration.
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Latest: Settlement resurrects Alaska’s Pebble Mine
Sen. Lisa Murkowski says the project must pass muster for salmon.
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Good management starts with science
Should decisions on wildlife be made at the ballot box — or by experts?