We’ve fooled them! Our interns and fellow decided to stick around.
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Posted inJune 26, 2017: Personal Pilgrimage
The man behind our new tribal affairs desk
Our latest letter to readers welcomes Tristan Ahtone to the team.
Posted inJune 12, 2017: The Big Swing
Reading the old-fashioned way
Warmer weather brings visitors to High Country News.
Posted inMay 29, 2017: The Cost of a Comeback
Old friends and new adventures
Wildflowers abound in the Colorado Rockies right now, and as warmer weather settles in, yellow glacier lilies and purple two-lobed larkspur have begun to grace our hikes. What a great time to welcome back an old friend — Michelle McClellen, who interned at HCN in 1996. Michelle was visiting Four Corners and Mesa Verde National […]
Posted inMay 15, 2017: Prison Town
A new face on staff and new pups in the office
We welcome Christie, Porter and Lefty to HCN.
Posted inMay 1, 2017: Change Comes to Short Creek
Fresh eggs and fresh journalism awards
The sun has been shining for weeks here in Paonia, Colorado, and despite some frosty nights, we are in the full throes of spring. A thin layer of snow coats Mount Lamborn above town, but down here, fruit blossoms have burst forth, and blooming hyacinth, daffodils and tulips have brought a riot of color to […]
Posted inApril 3, 2017: Firestorm
Spring’s skipped issue, and corrections
Raven wordplay: Corvus, Corvax and Corax.
Posted inMarch 20, 2017: The Tree Ring
HCN gets an editor-in-chief
Managing Editor Brian Calvert steps into a new role.
Posted inMarch 6, 2017: Uncomfortable Corners
A visit from our Bulgarian bureau chief
At the HCN headquarters, young poets and seasoned reporters.
Posted inFebruary 20, 2017: Overdosed
Visitors, travels and goodbye to a staff member
After nearly a decade at HCN, Tammy York says goodbye.
Posted inFebruary 6, 2017: River of Healing
Our new interns have arrived
High Country News is building a new team and correcting old errors.
Posted inJanuary 23, 2017: For Which it Stands
Welcome Maya L. Kapoor
New faces at the headquarters; catching up on old errors.
Posted inDecember 26, 2016: Obama and the West
HCN gets coal in its stocking — sort of
The magazine throws its annual holiday party and pays a visit to the local coal mine.
Posted inDecember 12, 2016: How the Park Service is Failing Women
HCN’s Climate Desk partnership
After an unusually warm, dry November, we finally got some snow on the Western Slope. Though only a light dusting has fallen in Paonia, Colorado, where our magazine is headquartered, the mountains around us are blanketed in white, so it’s finally beginning to look like winter here. High Country News has been doing quite a […]
Posted inNovember 28, 2016: A Weird and Perfect Wilderness
Join us for the holidays
As a nonprofit newsmagazine, High Country News has always been dedicated to independent reporting about the West and its communities. A big thanks to all our supporters and donors for helping us continue to dig deep into important stories. We’re going to be listening to and relying on our readers more than ever, and we […]
Posted inNovember 14, 2016: The Long View
High profile visitors
In September, we hosted “On the Wild Road,” our inaugural tour for High Country News Travel. The trip, which was co-sponsored and organized by Seven Directions Tours of Santa Fe, took a small group on a whirlwind tour to places like Yellowstone National Park, the Wild Animal Sanctuary in Denver, the Raptor Center in Wyoming, […]
Posted inOctober 31, 2016: A Monumental Divide
Staffing, and a trip outside Paonia
At the end of September, High Country News staff and board traveled to Berkeley, California, for one of our annual meetings. We love these trips afield, where we get to connect with members of the broader HCN community. One highlight was a talk by Dave Rolloff, professor of recreation, parks and tourism administration at California […]
Posted inOctober 3, 2016: Purple Rain
Visits from students and an issue break
It’s starting to feel like autumn in Paonia. Breezes are getting crisper, ripe apples are dropping, and the aspen leaves are turning gold. The season has been busy here at High Country News headquarters, as we make some staffing adjustments. Tay Wiles, our former online editor, is moving to the San Francisco Bay area, where […]
Posted inSeptember 5, 2016: When the Doctor is Out
Our winning writer, and so long to a good friend
As summer fades, we’re wrapping up our annual photo contest, in which we solicited images of the West’s national parks. While it’s too late to submit a picture, you can still vote for your favorite until Sept. 15 at hcn.org/photos16. Meanwhile, we’ve been busy catching up with visitors. Dave Morris, who works at the Wild […]
Posted inAugust 22, 2016: 100
Farewell to a senior editor
This issue we’re saying goodbye, in a way, to longtime High Country News writer and old friend Jonathan Thompson, who is leaving his post as senior editor in Durango, Colorado, to move to Bulgaria with his family. There he’ll be hard at work turning his extensive reporting on Colorado’s Gold King Mine spill into his […]