Your piece on the differing responses to wolf reintroduction in Yellowstone was a welcome change from the oversimplified accounts that have dominated media coverage (“Have returning wolves really saved Yellowstone?” HCN 12/8/14). One important factor was missing, even though it is likely to become the most critical one: climatic change. Our University of New […]
Yellowstone’s climate threat
Posted inFebruary 2, 2015: This Land is Their Land
Why are environmentalists mad at Jerry Brown?
The California governor has made bold moves on climate — but greens are disgruntled.
Posted inFebruary 2, 2015: This Land is Their Land
We’re hiring – in D.C.!
HCN needs a D.C. correspondent; visitors came to call.
Posted inFebruary 2, 2015: This Land is Their Land
Tricky fluency
I’m always pleased to find articles in HCN devoted to Native American issues, which is why I was glad to read a piece covering the Navajo Nation’s plight concerning language fluency and the eligibility of presidential candidates (“A question of fluency,” 12/22/14). And while the article was quite accurate in describing the now-obvious divisions among […]
Posted inFebruary 2, 2015: This Land is Their Land
Thrill of the dust hunt
Imagine my surprise at seeing the frontispiece of my doctoral dissertation on the cover of High Country News (“The Dust Detectives,” 12/22/14). To those who study it, the atmospheric transport of dust and pollution is a truly exciting detective drama, full of twists and new discoveries. It is a field both driven by and motivating imaginative […]
Posted inFebruary 2, 2015: This Land is Their Land
This land is whose land?
Every week, the editors of High Country News sit in a small, lime-sherbet-colored conference room and debate what stories we should cover. Should we tackle legalized marijuana, since the West is leading the charge, or has that story become too “national?” How about North Dakota’s response to the drop in oil prices — is it […]
Posted inFebruary 2, 2015: This Land is Their Land
Private property blocks access to public lands
Public lands belong to everyone. But private landowners can make it hard to get to them.
Posted inFebruary 2, 2015: This Land is Their Land
The Latest: Wildlife refuges
The refuge system finally has a strategy for expansion.
Posted inFebruary 2, 2015: This Land is Their Land
The Latest: Rio Grande water
A shortfall in water deliveries may lead to more fighting.
Posted inFebruary 2, 2015: This Land is Their Land
On the edge of Custer’s last stand
Review of “Far As the Eye Can See” by Robert Bausch.
Posted inFebruary 2, 2015: This Land is Their Land
Love in a post-apocalyptic world
Review of “California” by Edan Lepucki.
Posted inFebruary 2, 2015: This Land is Their Land
Half-Blind Valley
Explorations in an urban wilderness.
Posted inFebruary 2, 2015: This Land is Their Land
Goats at the table, and bobcats on (in) the grill…
Mishaps and mayhem from around the region.
Posted inFebruary 2, 2015: This Land is Their Land
Galloping beyond the cliché
Review of art exhibit “William Matthews: Trespassing” at DAM
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Deportation relief
Program could help immigrant families stay in the U.S.
Posted inFebruary 2, 2015: This Land is Their Land
Balanced rocks can tell us about earthquake risk
Seismologists study precarious boulders to determine how hard the ground might shake.
Posted inFebruary 2, 2015: This Land is Their Land
‘I Am Alaskan’
The surprising diversity of the 49th state, through Brian Adams’ lens.
Posted inFebruary 2, 2015: This Land is Their Land
Give the fossil fuel industry free rein!
In 1729, Jonathan Swift published the most famous satirical essay in the English language: A Modest Proposal For Preventing the Children of Poor People in Ireland from Being a Burden to Their Parents or Country, and for Making Them Beneficial to the Public. And what was Swift’s proposal? Merely that the one-year-old children of indigents […]
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Rants from the Hill: Hedgehog comes to the High Desert
Welcoming a fifteen-million-year-old animal to the Ranting Hill
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Plan for a burn at Rocky Flats stirs lingering fears
More from the nuclear fallout department.