HCN is happy to announce that Wayne Hare and Jane Ellen Stevens recently joined our board of directors. A long-ago transplant from the East, Wayne became a “native Westerner” while working as a ranger with the Bureau of Land Management in western Colorado, patrolling the Colorado River and McInnis Canyons National Conservation Area. Prior to […]
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Posted inNovember 10, 2008: Still Howling Wolf
From the Beltway to the mountains
His close-cropped hair, aviator shades and straight-backed bearing hint at his Navy past, but the silver hoop in his left ear and baggy bike shorts give Keith Baker a twist of hip outdoorsy-ness. He stands in the HCN office with his wife, Evelyn, also in bike garb, and their dog, a sleek weimaraner named Prana. […]
Posted inSeptember 9, 2008: Reclaiming the low country
A photographic life
NAME Grant HeilmanHOME Buena Vista, ColoradoVOCATION Professional photographerSUBSCRIBER SINCE 1988 When photographer Grant Heilman came home from World War II, he got in touch with some of his mentors at Pennsylva-nia’s Swarthmore College, from which he’d graduated shortly before being drafted. One of them, Bob Read, was the editor of Country Gentlemen magazine. He’d used […]
Posted inSeptember 9, 2008: Reclaiming the low country
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Kirk Crawford, of nearby Crawford, dropped by during a hike of the Continental Divide Trail. He had one message to share: STOP. As in Stop Trashing Our Planet, Start Telling Our Politicians, and Start Thinking Of Peace. Good thoughts, Kirk. Judy Muller, an associate journalism professor at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, […]
Posted inAugust 25, 2008: Hot Wheels
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FROM FRANCE, NEW YORK AND CALIFORNIASummer visiting season is in full swing. Ned Ames and Jane Sokolow, both of New York City, stopped by after visiting some friends in Hotchkiss, just down the road. They were on their way back to New York from their Fort Union Ranch in Watrous, N.M., which has been in […]
Posted inAugust 11, 2008: Trouble in (Private) Paradise
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WELCOME, COBUNPaonia native Cobun Keegan is HCN’s summer high-school intern. Before he heads off to Colorado Springs to begin his freshman year at Colorado College, he’s getting some reporting and general publication experience with us. He hasn’t picked a major yet, but is interested in environmental studies, political science, international relations and linguistics. In May, […]
Posted inJuly 21, 2008: A fractured party
Concert-goers and bird-watchers
Ernie Nelson and Patti Armstrong dropped by in late June. The husband-and-wife team were on their way back to their home in Vail, Colo., after attending the Joe Cocker concert at the Delta County Fairgrounds in nearby Hotchkiss. Another Cocker fan, Mike Massa, owner of Accounting Specialists Inc. in Nederland, Colo., and his wife, Betsy, […]
Posted inMay 26, 2008: On Cancer’s Trail
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FELLOW NEWSMEN COME TO CALL Kevin Haley, the “founder, publisher, editor, janitor and copyboy” of the San Juan Horseshoe, dropped by to say hi. The Ouray, Colo.-based parody newspaper bills itself as “Refried News for a Half-Baked World.” From Salida, Colo., came Mike Rosso, webmaster for four newspapers owned by Arkansas Valley Publishing. He said […]
Posted inApril 28, 2008: Pillaging the Past
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A CRASH IN WESTERN COLORADO What happens when an energy boom collides with an amenity boom? Join High Country News and a panel of experts on Thursday, May 15, at Mesa State College in Grand Junction, Colo., for a rousing discussion exploring whether a gas-field town and a recreation and retirement community can coexist. Hear […]
Posted inApril 14, 2008: Taking to the Trees
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MORE KUDOS FOR RAY Senior editor Ray Ring‘s cover story “Disposable Workers of the Oil and Gas Fields,” April 2, 2007, received an Honorable Mention in this year’s Heywood Broun Award contest. The top winners were Dana Priest and Anne Hull of the Washington Post. The award, from the Newspaper Guild, recognizes journalism that helps […]
Posted inMarch 31, 2008: My Crazy Brother
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POETRY CORNER We usually focus on hard-hitting news about the West, not sonnets and blank verse. But to lighten things up, we thought we’d share a couple of poems we recently received from readers. Subscriber Susanne Twight-Alexander of Eugene, Ore., sent us verses inspired by her reading of Home Ground. The book, edited by Barry […]
Posted inMarch 17, 2008: Seeking the Water Jackpot
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WELCOME, SARAH GILMAN She’s baaaa-aaa-ck! We’re pleased to welcome former HCN intern Sarah Gilman as our new assistant editor. A Colorado native, Sarah was born and raised in Boulder. She earned a bachelor’s degree in biology and studio art at Whitman College in Washington state in 2004. The pull of the Rocky Mountains was too […]
Posted inMay 12, 2008: Boom! Boom!
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HILLMAN AWARD FOR RAY RING Senior editor Ray Ring has won the prestigious 2008 Sidney Hillman journalism award in the magazine reporting category for his cover story “Disposable Workers of the Oil and Gas Fields,”April 2, 2007. Since 1950, the foundation has recognized “journalists, writers and public figures whose work promotes social and economic justice.”Past […]
Posted inMarch 3, 2008: The People of the Sea
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VISITORS The snow may have kept some folks from visiting us here, but Rob and Annie Edward stopped by between storms and gray wolf education presentations. Rob is the director of carnivore restoration for the nonprofit carnivore advocacy group Sinapu, which recently merged with Forest Guardians to create WildEarth Guardians. Annie’s “day job” allows her […]
Posted inFebruary 18, 2008: Reluctant Boomtown
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TELL US WHAT YOU THINK We’d like to know what topics are important to you, and what you think of the job that High Country News is doing. Please visit www.hcn.org/survey and complete our brief reader survey today. We’ll use your input to improve our understanding of what our readers want and need. NEW BABIES, […]