Two new books look at the ever-changing face of the U.S.-Mexico border.
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High Country News explores diversity and inclusion in the outdoors
Paonia, CO – As the push to transfer federal lands to private interests intensifies, and as an old guard of conservationists moves into the sunset, the green movement faces a critical question: Who will nurture and lead a new, more urban and racially diverse, generation to defend the country’s environment and lands? The answer can be found […]
Posted inJune 27, 2016: The New Advocates
Exploding oil train, heroin highways and the EPA’s civil rights record
HCN.org news in brief
Posted inJune 27, 2016: The New Advocates
Meet the badasses bringing outdoor rec to the people who pioneered it
More groups are focused on getting Native Americans outside.
Posted inJune 27, 2016: The New Advocates
Nature’s worth, through filmmakers’ eyes
A new wave of outdoor films encompass both conservation and adventure.
Posted inJune 27, 2016: The New Advocates
See the vanishing rest stops of the American West
A review of “The Last Stop” and a look at iconic roadside waypoints.
Posted inJune 27, 2016: The New Advocates
The grand plan to save the Yellowstone River
Can one man’s pie-in-the-sky idea save one of the West’s most iconic and underloved rivers?
Posted inJune 27, 2016: The New Advocates
#whereisjose: The man forging a new path in the outdoors
José González is tapping into Latinos’ passion for nature.
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Arizona Rep. Grijalva targets extremism on public lands
Dozens of high-profile former federal employees sign a letter urging Congress to address Sagebrush Insurgency threats.
Posted inJune 13, 2016: Water to Dust
El Niño adds fuel to Southwestern fires
In California, Arizona and New Mexico, an underperforming weather pattern increased wildfire risk.
Posted inJune 13, 2016: Water to Dust
Farewell to a valuable staff member
For the first time in several years, the blossoms on the apricot trees at the High Country News headquarters in Paonia survived the spring frosts, and bright green nascent fruit is already weighing down the branches. Throughout the valley, all the fruit seems to be thriving — from peaches and nectarines to apples and wine […]
Posted inJune 13, 2016: Water to Dust
Horse catheters in classrooms, a crackdown on toxics, and an update on the Animas River
HCN.org news in brief.
Posted inJune 13, 2016: Water to Dust
The lost in canyon country
A new book recounts the many mysterious disappearances in the Western desert.
Posted inJune 13, 2016: Water to Dust
Arizona fends off threats to water supplies
Republican Gov. Doug Ducey is sticking by regulations and negotiating deals.
Posted inJune 13, 2016: Water to Dust
Canadians’ bad behavior, a cat-lover’s nightmare and gun-toting steeds
Mishaps and mayhem from around the region.
Posted in2016
High Country News gives voice to women firefighters speaking out about harassment, abuse and sexism on the job
PAONIA, COLO. – High Country News, the nation’s leading source of reporting on the American West, just released the first feature in a continuing series of stories about women working in public-land agencies who are being harassed and abused by their male colleagues. Read the complete story here: hcne.ws/trial-by-fire (contact joann@hcn.org for free editor […]
Posted inMay 30, 2016: Trial by Fire
Bears Ears, Lead’s big unknown, Hike like a girl
HCN.org news in brief.
Posted inMay 30, 2016: Trial by Fire
How the BLM is overhauling land-use planning
The agency is aiming to increase public involvement and collaboration.
Posted inMay 30, 2016: Trial by Fire
On the road with a transient immigrant rights lawyer
Lawyer Melanie Gleason is traveling the West, offering legal advice pro bono.
Posted inMay 30, 2016: Trial by Fire
The tenuous fate of the Southwest’s last jaguars
U.S. conservation of the endangered big cats depends on their populations in Mexico.