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Posted inJanuary 1, 2022: Water Rights and Responsibilities
A fierce defender of the Western word
Betsy Marston retires from High Country News after 39 years with the magazine.
Posted inDecember 1, 2021: Visions of Wildness
Paul Larmer’s 40-year ride with HCN
The one-time intern turned publisher, and now senior development officer, retires to a mic and his camera.
Posted inNovember 1, 2021: The Radioactive Waste Next Door
Raising fun — and funds — across the West
For more than 50 years, our amazing readers have sustained our work through subscriptions and donations.
Posted inSeptember 1, 2021: Where Wolves May Tread
Welcoming our newest interns and fellows
Thanks to generous readers, we host our largest cohort ever.
Posted inAugust 1, 2021: A Mega-Dairy Comes to the Desert
Our never boring board
Departures and additions to our honor-worthy volunteers.
Posted in2021
A Q&A with Nick Martin, HCN’s new editor on the Indigenous Affairs Desk
A member of the Sappony Tribe, Martin joins High Country News from The New Republic, where he previously covered Indian Country.
Posted inJuly 1, 2021: An Urban Greenspace Revolution
Bittersweet departures and celebrations
We wish a wide-ranging journalist well and give gratitude over our final 50th anniversary event.
Posted inJune 1, 2021: Once and Future Fires
The final stretch of our 50th anniversary campaign
We’re down to the wire and need your help.
Posted inMay 1, 2021: Beauty and Biodiversity in the Borderlands
Spread the news, and take us higher!
We’re on a quest to transform HCN for another 50 years, and you can help.
Posted inMay 1, 2021: Beauty and Biodiversity in the Borderlands
Big awards and staffing changes
Our investigation from March 2020 gets deserved recognition, and we say a bittersweet farewell to a few employees.
Posted inApril 1, 2021: Holding Fast
Looking for leaders
Our thanks to retiring board members and a quest for new people to help the organization set course.
Posted in2021
Q&A: Meet Brandon Yadageri Moreno, HCN’s first climate justice fellow
The application deadline for the second-ever climate justice fellowship at HCN is March 31.
Posted inMarch 1, 2021: The Rough Road Ahead
Our expanding universe
New staff, new technology, more readers.
Posted inFebruary 1, 2021: End of the Line
New interns join the team
And our latest Virginia Spencer Davis Fellow is announced.
Posted inFebruary 1, 2021: End of the Line
HCN in the 2000s
A look back at time when extraction was king and Jonathan Thompson was our editor-in-chief.
Posted inJanuary 1, 2021: No Place Like Home
Reflecting on HCN in the 1990s
Monuments, growth and the Marstons marked this era of the magazine.
Posted inDecember 1, 2020: A Community Divided
Former HCN interns look back
Our internship provides real-world skills, and a community, for a lifetime.
Posted inNovember 1, 2020: When the Smoke Clears
High Country News in the ’80s
Resentment from environmental regulations and the Sagebrush rebels ramped up in the ‘decade of greed.’