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Posted inDecember 22, 2014: The Dust Detectives
Aerial photos of drilling at Pawnee grassland
Oil and gas development has been ongoing for decades in northeastern Colorado.
Posted inDecember 22, 2014: The Dust Detectives
Descent into an ice-age bonebed in Wyoming
The giant pit may hold clues about the demise of the West’s ancient megafauna.
Posted inDecember 22, 2014: The Dust Detectives
Hunting for scorpions
Seeking one of Earth’s most ancient land invertebrates.
Posted inDecember 22, 2014: The Dust Detectives
Non-native goats in Utah’s La Sal Mountains
How bad are these ungulates for the ecosystem?
Posted inDecember 8, 2014: The Great Salmon Compromise
A fix for the desert tortoise
Prolific pets continue to threaten their wild cousins.
Posted inArticles
Light rail exists in Denver, and comes to Phoenix
Nelson Harvey takes a ride on Denver’s light rail to see whether it’s changed his city for the better.
Posted inNovember 24, 2014: Transportation Transformation
Gifts — and memories — for the ages
HCN staff and board members on their favorite green holiday gifts.
Posted inNovember 24, 2014: Transportation Transformation
In the footsteps of a roving genius
Photographs and an interview from high peaks of the Alaska Range.
Posted inNovember 24, 2014: Transportation Transformation
Solace at the end of Homer Spit
When I quit my job and joined a pilgrimage of heartbroken dreamers staggering toward Alaska.
Posted inNovember 10, 2014: Fallout
A young mule stringer helps keep a dying profession alive
Mules are still needed to carry supplies in wild, roadless mountains.
Posted inNovember 10, 2014: Fallout
Photographs of the Gold Beach community
The people affected by this timberland herbicide cocktail.
Posted inNovember 10, 2014: Fallout
Rocky Mountain sawmills rebound
But the industry says it needs more timber.
Posted inNovember 10, 2014: Fallout
The desert-friendly cow
A rancher and a researcher search for a better bovine — and think they’ve found one.
Posted inArticles
Dispatch from a young farmers confab
How better dirt can conserve water, save farming and help feed the West.
Posted inArticles
The BLM fails to provide public records
The agency’s main Freedom of Information Act office appears incompetent or overworked.
Posted in2014
High Country News awarded grant to serve college students
For immediate release: Oct. 28, 2014 High Country News has just received a $30,000 INNovation Fund grant from the Investigative News Network. The magazine –– one of only eight nonprofit newsrooms to receive a grant –– plans to use it for the High Country News University program, which works with colleges and universities nationwide to integrate HCN’s […]
Posted inOctober 27, 2014: Defuse the West
Western states eye federal lands—again
The ultra-right ‘remedy’ for public lands.
Posted inOctober 27, 2014: Defuse the West
Bookshop oversight
I enjoy your publication and especially liked “The best little bookshops in the West” (HCN, 9/15/14). I am a faithful shopper of Changing Hands, two miles from my home. However, you missed one very important shop — Singing Wind Bookshop, in the middle of a cattle ranch in Benson, Arizona. They are visited by worldwide […]
Posted inOctober 27, 2014: Defuse the West
House of Misrepresentatives
What would happen to the West’s environment if the House of Representatives had its way.