The move will protect species at risk from climate change and invasive fish in new habitats.
Glacier National Park reshuffles native trout
Posted inMay 16, 2016: Grizzly Face-Off
Real predators don’t eat popsicles
Once again, in Zootopia, Disney’s view of nature is sanitized and out of touch.
Posted inArticles
Investigations show extensive harassment history in Park Service
The agency made a plan to protect female employees in 2000, but it appears no meaningful action was taken.
Posted inArticles
The end of coal is bringing a wrenching transition
Mixed feelings from the anti-coal bandwagon as closures wreak havoc on small-town economies.
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In Utah, the fight for a Bears Ears monument heats up
In a place where history, culture and geography intermingle, ‘local’ can be hard to define.
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As Lake Mead sinks, states agree to more drastic water cuts
California, Arizona and Nevada are back in negotiations about the dwindling Colorado River water supply.
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Ranch Diaries: Our first intern, branding cattle and renovating an old home
Triangle P cattle know the territory now, so our second summer shouldn’t be as demanding as the last.
Posted inMay 2, 2016: The Gold King Reckoning
White-nose comes West, readers respond to Grand Canyon harassment, and the election out West
HCN.org news in brief.
Posted inMay 2, 2016: The Gold King Reckoning
Tribal lands, tribal self-governance
Sierra Crane-Murdoch’s beautifully illustrated feature exposes several inherent tensions in federal efforts to purchase and return lands that were stolen from tribes a century ago and given to individuals (“A Land Divided,” HCN, 4/4/16). But the tone of the article is hostile toward a program that is successfully addressing a serious historical injustice and a […]
Posted inMay 2, 2016: The Gold King Reckoning
The life of a fire lookout is one of the senses
A former lookout finds the woman who used to guard her tower.
Posted inMay 2, 2016: The Gold King Reckoning
The absurdist Western
It’s worth following the twists and turns of Robert Garner McBrearty’s The Western Lonesome Society.
Posted inMay 2, 2016: The Gold King Reckoning
Sometimes, the strangest ties bind tightest
In April, Colorado lawmakers approved a bill to fund emergency cleanups at legacy mine sites. The legislation was in response to the August 2015 wastewater spill from the Gold King Mine above Silverton, in the San Juan Mountains, which sent a 3-million-gallon slug of psychedelic-orange toxic fluid down the Animas and Colorado rivers and into […]
Posted inMay 2, 2016: The Gold King Reckoning
A Gold King Mine Timeline
A tangled history of profit, tragedy and unfulfilled dreams.
Posted inMay 2, 2016: The Gold King Reckoning
Silverton’s Gold King reckoning
How the Animas River disaster forced Silverton to face its pollution problem — and its destiny.
Posted inMay 2, 2016: The Gold King Reckoning
No Bikes in Wilderness. Period.
Dear High Country News: You can’t read the Wilderness Act of 1964 and think that it would ever allow mountain bikers into wilderness. The language is unambiguous: Section 4 (c) states that there shall be…no use of motor vehicles, motorized equipment”…and “no other form of mechanical transport…” The mention of those prohibitions in the same […]
Posted inMay 2, 2016: The Gold King Reckoning
National Park Service centennial shares limelight with scandals
Chief Jon Jarvis faces ethical challenges and questions about the agency’s approach to sexual harassment.
Posted inMay 2, 2016: The Gold King Reckoning
Meet one of the great forgotten Western painters
Frank Mechau, who died in 1946 at age 42, saw the West through an unusual lens.
Posted inMay 2, 2016: The Gold King Reckoning
Latest: Peer-reviewed study undermines fracking’s claims of safety
Researchers in Pavillion, Wyoming, traced the chemical footprint of the drilling.
Posted inMay 2, 2016: The Gold King Reckoning
Latest: Court orders reconsideration of whether to list wolverines
Some say state opposition stymied efforts to provide the species federal protection.
Posted inMay 2, 2016: The Gold King Reckoning
Keeping busy during publication break
April’s publication break allowed us to hunker down for a bit and get the garden started, but the work never stops at High Country News. On the business side, we’ve been hard at work organizing an event with Democracy Now!’s Amy Goodman, who appeared here in Paonia, Colorado, on April 23. And over in the […]