The wild horse and burro debate in the West has devolved to knee-jerk rancor.
It’s time to come to terms with euthanizing wild horses
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Digitally disconnected
How rural students struggle to find internet access, and what one small college is doing about it.
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How one tiny high school hacked Advanced Placement classes
Paonia High brings college-level coursework to rural students by partnering with its neighbors.
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A helping hand for migrant students
In the San Luis Valley, migrant workers build community around student success.
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Native schools move forward by looking to the past
How a New Mexico network is building a new generation of native schools.
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Big steps for small schools
In the battle to train the next generation of rural Western leaders, schools are on the frontlines.
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Wyoming needs to stop stalling wind power
What’s at stake with the Republican push to tax renewable energy companies
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West Obsessed: How Trump is recoloring the West’s politics
Listen to the writers and editors of the magazine discuss the backlash to Donald Trump’s run for president.
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The 10 most expensive wildfires in the West’s history
Why suppressing wildfires costs public land agencies so much money.
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Malheur occupation impacts linger throughout the West
Sagebrush Rebellion flareups cooled off after Bundy arrests but the standoff’s effects ripple out.
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Replacing Columbus Day with Indigenous Peoples Day isn’t enough
To better honor their history, activists want “justice, not gestures.”
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What it takes to save an imperiled fish
The impressive effort to restore the Arctic grayling in a Yellowstone National Park stream.
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Visits from students and an issue break
It’s starting to feel like autumn in Paonia. Breezes are getting crisper, ripe apples are dropping, and the aspen leaves are turning gold. The season has been busy here at High Country News headquarters, as we make some staffing adjustments. Tay Wiles, our former online editor, is moving to the San Francisco Bay area, where […]
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Trump and the West
In the past, elections in the West have been fairly predictable. In urban areas and along the West Coast, folks tended to vote blue, for Democrats. In rural areas and in the Rocky Mountain interior, they leaned heavily red, for Republicans, especially in Montana, Idaho, Wyoming and Utah. Over the past decade, however, that pattern […]
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Meet Denise Juneau, who hopes to be the first Native American woman in Congress
Indian Country votes will help determine whether this seat flips to blue.
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This election season’s unexpected power players: undocumented immigrants
Donald Trump’s rhetoric is sparking a movement to mobilize Hispanic voters.
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The Western races to watch
Democrats hope to nab vulnerable Republican seats.
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Remembering a ‘free man’ who died at the Grand Canyon
A transient outdoorsman, he only wanted to be in the mountains or down some canyon.
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Stopping the downward spiral
While the factors Elizabeth Zach cites — low reimbursement by public insurers, reduced inpatient services, hospital mergers and others — have historically impacted the ability of rural communities to sustain viable health services, this litany of forces reflects incomplete knowledge of research dating back 30 years (“A Rural Health Care Checkup: Lessons from the Central […]
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See these photos of ‘the new settlers’
In the 1960s, a counterculture revolution brought a new wave of migration Westward.