Theodore Roosevelt National Park is not immune to effects of the Bakken oil boom.
Not on homepage
Posted inApril 27, 2015: Lost frontier
Can our own ingenuity upend natural laws?
Reflections on the health of my heart and the making of Hoover Dam.
Posted inApril 27, 2015: Lost frontier
Wyoming coal, Cliven Bundy and megadrought
HCN.org news in brief.
Posted inArticles
A Latino sportsman talks with the BLM’s Utah director
Juan Palma discusses states’ rights, landscape-scale planning and how personal history affects public decisions.
Posted inApril 10, 2015: Strangers in a Strange Land
A wanderer’s guide to Western public lands
Cow patties, extraterrestrials and binoculars can help you figure out where you are.
Posted inApril 10, 2015: Strangers in a Strange Land
Readers’ foreign travel tales
Winners of the High Country News essay contest for our annual travel issue.
Posted inArticles
Lifties and ski patrol go head to head in Telluride
It’s a Telluride tradition: the annual St. Patrick’s Day lifties versus ski patrol softball game. To understand the magnitude of this yearly matchup, it’s important to understand the social dynamic of these two groups in any ski town. Ski patrol is full of alpha males and females, talented and aggressive skiers—in general only skiers—who have […]
Posted inMarch 16, 2015: Wild Ride
An oil well, by the numbers
A deep dive into drilling, operating and producing.
Posted inMarch 16, 2015: Wild Ride
The quietest and noisiest spots in the West
Some places are 20 decibels or less, similar to levels in pre-Colonial times.
Posted inArticles
Marie’s dictionary
The last fluent speaker of Wukchumni creates a dictionary to document her tribe’s language.
Posted inArticles
Jim Deacon, pioneering desert fish biologist, dies
But the concept of saving big places through little animals lives on.
Posted inMarch 2, 2015: Unite and Conquer
Most native tongues of the West are all but lost
A map shows where just over 60 languages remain spoken around the region.
Posted in2015
D.C. correspondent to expand HCN’s reach
“Elizabeth brings us incredible expertise on issues, a solid reputation in the D.C. journalism and environmental communities, and strong storytelling abilities,” says Jodi Peterson, managing editor for High Country News. “She’ll help inform our readers of critical Western issues surrounding public lands, energy, economic development and communities, and how they shape, and are shaped by, national […]
Posted in2015
Ranch Diaries series follows what it’s like to get into cattle ranching today
Making a living in an industry that faces an ever-evolving host of obstacles like drought, climate changes, political forces, and a volatile cattle market, Schneider will give a peek into what it’s like to take on those challenges during the first year of Triangle P Cattle Company. Installments of the series will appear at hcn.org on […]
Posted inFebruary 16, 2015: Chainsaw Diplomacy
A recent history of land management in the Escalante region
A monumental tug of war.
Posted inFebruary 16, 2015: Chainsaw Diplomacy
My kind of town: Livingston, Montana
An essay on returning home to the West, after years abroad.
Posted inArticles
Aldo Leopold explains it all
Should nature be protected for humans or from humans?
Posted inFebruary 2, 2015: This Land is Their Land
Galloping beyond the cliché
Review of art exhibit “William Matthews: Trespassing” at DAM