What we know from the confirmation hearings for Ryan Zinke, Scott Pruitt and Rick Perry.
Meet Trump’s Interior, EPA and Energy picks
Posted inFebruary 6, 2017: River of Healing
All the presidents’ dogs
What sort of canine companion might Donald Trump bring to the White House?
Posted inArticles
Making sense of President Trump’s energy plan
Experts say his plan to bring back coal and increase oil and gas defies reason.
Posted inArticles
Inauguration day in a county that flipped blue to red
In small-town Colorado, mixed emotions about President Donald Trump.
Posted inJanuary 23, 2017: For Which it Stands
Why OR7 is a celebrity
Once wolf populations fully recover, we’ll no longer know the story of individual animals.
Posted inJanuary 23, 2017: For Which it Stands
What Standing Rock meant for those who took part
Protesters from afar didn’t just take a stand in North Dakota — they brought the movement back home.
Posted inJanuary 23, 2017: For Which it Stands
Welcome Maya L. Kapoor
New faces at the headquarters; catching up on old errors.
Posted inJanuary 23, 2017: For Which it Stands
Was the Bears Ears designation a victory?
Despite compromise, the controversial monument’s opposition is riled up.
Posted inJanuary 23, 2017: For Which it Stands
The threatened ESA; Canada’s contradicting climate goals; revolutionary consumers
HCN.org news in brief
Posted inJanuary 23, 2017: For Which it Stands
The heartache of Montana’s solitude
Two new fiction works from Big Sky Country crave human connectivity.
Posted inJanuary 23, 2017: For Which it Stands
The Forest Service relaxes restrictions on recreation
The permitting change could give guided groups more access.
Posted inJanuary 23, 2017: For Which it Stands
The dark side of the Park Service
Please give Lyndsey Gilpin my congratulations on her great investigative reporting for “How the Park Service is Failing Women” (HCN, 12/12/16). I am in my 23rd year of retirement after wearing the National Park Service ranger uniform for more than 30 years. I can validate and corroborate every point that Lyndsey writes in her article. That traditional flat […]
Posted inJanuary 23, 2017: For Which it Stands
Standing Rock’s men at war
By challenging our myths of the West and its warriors, Native men find their voice.
Posted inJanuary 23, 2017: For Which it Stands
Standing Rock and beyond
Earlier this month, a group of protesters calling themselves “water protectors” set up a camp to stop the imminent construction of a controversial pipeline. This was not in North Dakota, however; it was in Texas. The Two Rivers camp, established by activists who were also part of the opposition to the Dakota Access Pipeline, or […]
Posted inJanuary 23, 2017: For Which it Stands
Shades of what’s to come?
I thoroughly appreciated, although was equally saddened by, “How the Park Service is Failing Women” (HCN, 12/12/16). It does not surprise me that women — and most likely people of color, of Hispanic or Muslim backgrounds, and others who are not white males — are treated in this manner throughout multiple government organizations and business […]
Posted inJanuary 23, 2017: For Which it Stands
The story behind New Mexico’s lowriders
A new collection examines the elaborate cars and their place in Mexican-American culture.
Posted inJanuary 23, 2017: For Which it Stands
Regulations rejected
“Will a twice-burned county change its ways?” (HCN, 12/26/16) details how residents of Montana’s Bitterroot Valley block efforts by their state and county governments to require homeowners in the fire zone to prepare for -inevitable wildfires. Residents reject county regulation and demand private-property rights. These Bitterroot Valley conservatives can teach us a great deal about […]
Posted inJanuary 23, 2017: For Which it Stands
Nature’s disappearing vocabulary; bobcat decoys; setting the “barr” for climate data
Mishaps and mayhem from around the region.
Posted inJanuary 23, 2017: For Which it Stands
Latest: GOP House rules loosen land transfer regs
The rule would let the feds transfer land without accounting for costs.
Posted inJanuary 23, 2017: For Which it Stands
Latest: Another attempt to open Arctic drilling
The legislation is Sen. Lisa Murkowski’s ninth such try.