A biologist figures out how to keep beavers alive on Western landscapes.
The beaver whisperer
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Solar impacts
Overall, I felt that the Oct. 26 story “Clean Energy’s Dirty Secret” approached the issues in a fairly even-handed way. However, I wish the editors had done a better job with one significant issue. The author often conflates the wildlife harms caused by solar thermal power plants with those caused by solar photovoltaic plants in […]
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Saluting a salamander and surviving an unexpected windfall
Mishaps and mayhem from around the region.
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Recreation, unleashed
There are situations in which leash laws are appropriate on trails, but I encourage the Jackson Hole task force (“Heard around the West,” HCN, 10/12/15) and others to consider their effect on off-leash recreationists. Places off-leash recreationists can legally engage in their activity are often limited in number, accessibility and quality. For many (perhaps most) of […]
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Motive, not method
While he does not come right out and say it, Brian Calvert appears to advocate altering the Second Amendment to the Constitution in his opinion piece “Growing up with guns” (HCN, 10/26/05). To confuse the use of weapons used for hunting with guns used in the commission of violent crimes is a greater stretch than comparing […]
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‘Legal monkey-wrenching’ on Western trails
One man’s guerrilla trail work aims to improve public access to public land.
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Knock-out punch
A review of ‘Contenders,’ by Erika Krouse.
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High Country News: Tragedy and transition
The second in a series celebrating our 45th anniversary
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Fall visitors
Welcome visitors from near and far to the HCN office in Paonia, Colorado.
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Coalbed methane explainer and post-fire logging.
Hcn.org news in brief.
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Can drilling and recreation get along in Moab, Utah?
The BLM unveils the unprecedented plan to balance oil and gas with conservation in canyon country.
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An ode to germs, guts and gardens
When calamity strikes, a gardener finds her way back to the basics.
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A tour of vibrant skies of the north
A review of ‘The Northern Lights: Celestial Performances of the Aurora Borealis,’ by Daryl Pederson and Calvin Hall.
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A model for planning
For over a century, energy development on public lands has put coal, oil and gas extraction at odds with stewardship of wildlife, wildlands and recreational opportunities. As noted in your Oct. 26 piece “Clean Energy’s Dirty Secret,” the growth of clean energy development has similarly presented challenges for the West. Recognizing the lessons learned and pitfalls of […]
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Bankruptcy expected for Arch Coal, a reflection of industry woes
Climate policies make a rebound for coal unlikely.
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Innovation amid drought in the Sacramento Delta
Checking in with a farmer who traded some of his water for long term survival.
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What does super El Niño mean for the American West?
The weather event follows Earth’s two hottest years on record.
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Can small communities tackle global food security?
Climate change has profound impacts on growing seasons and crop yields, but local solutions have promise.
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The Hopi man who runs to protect his tribe’s water
What do you think about when you run? This is my favorite question to ask long-distance runners in the Arizona desert. When I asked Hopi runner and farmer Bucky Preston this question, he thought about the thousands of miles he has run to protect and honor his people’s water. “When I run, I meditate and […]
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On E.M. Frimbo and riding the Western rails
People in the Western United States like their trains, or so E.M. Frimbo, The New Yorker magazine’s great rail writer with the unusual name, liked to say. But Frimbo believed that Westerners lost track of what happened to so many railroad lines: We spent the last half of the 19th century building them up, then […]