How New Mexico chiles ended up on the space station

I enjoyed reading Jason Asenap’s essay regarding the present state of Native filmmaking and production (“The time of the Indigenous critic has arrived,” October 2021). He landed on some critical points, especially concerning the Indigenous filmmakers and artists working in a predominantly and historically white-run business. Those lines are now being blurred. Just as Asenap has written, learning to live […]

Your impressively thorough article, “The Public Health Officer Emergency” (October 2021), was distressing. The defiant attitudes and mean-spirited tactics of the vociferous opponents of professional medical guidance concerning the COVID-19 epidemic are chilling. They apparently do not care about protection of their fellow citizens, their own personal vulnerability or the tragic impacts on overwhelmed medical […]

For my 85 years of avid reading, I don’t believe that I’ve ever read anything that I have enjoyed so much as “A Hostile Country.” The female wolf’s trek was fascinating — not really a happy ending, but so entertaining. Thank you so much. Joan HamburgerTucson, Arizona This article appeared in the print edition of […]

“Making a Home of It” in the October High Country News was sad and frightening on several levels. Our public lands are not a solution for “homeless” people or those who don’t follow the rules. These are problems the U.S. Congress and the states must fix by requiring the wealthy to pay for decent affordable housing […]

HCN readers are missing out if they have not yet seen editorial intern B. ‘Toastie’ Oaster’s delightful video summaries of new articles each Friday (“Halito from High Country News”). But “summary” is a poor descriptor because what Oaster is really crafting are invitations that engage though clarity, wonder and wit. The Oct. 1 episode was […]

Big cheers for Michael Parks, HCN and the passionate Westerners who are working hard to remove the barriers to wildlife (“Behind the wire with a fence ecologist,” October 2021). I am really excited to see a hopeful tale of desperately needed action to give wildlife back their land. If this is the beginning of a greater […]

Thank you to Paige Blankenbuehler for her recent article concerning wolf dispersal and Wyoming’s Green River corridor (“A Hostile Country,” October 2021). One passage I found particularly disturbing for its hypocrisy was the characterization of wolves as “vicious” and killing for fun. Although I am no expert in wolf behavior, the idea that they kill […]