The Northwest Forest Plan, no 20 years old, faces pressures new and old, with no easy fix in sight.
Editor's Note
High Country News turns 50 this year, but we’re already planning for the decades to come.
In the face of conflict and misinformation, hope remains.
‘Dominator culture’ and the injustices of climate change, COVID-19 and racism.
Climate change will transform both the Arctic and the Mojave Desert, but for different reasons
Editor’s note for HCN’s second annual special issue on travel in the West describes some quirky personal trips.
Getting skiers on the slopes is less about actual snow and more about getting skiers to believe there is snow.
Whether converting open ditches into pipelines or fallowing fields, farmers and ranchers in the West are being forced to change the ways they use water as climate-induced drought tightens its grip.
The country's first tribal national park could lead the way toward more tribal control over lands that were once theirs.
Today, many educational organizations and institutions offer incredible learning opportunities
-- both in the field and the classroom -- for students and non-students to chow down on the West’s meaty issues.
Mining in British Columbia could have big impacts on parts of Canada -- and the U.S.
Will the soul of wildlife biology survive in an era of remote monitoring technology?
Tribal efforts to hold on to heritage and right past wrongs continue in Port Gamble, Washington.
Wild horses are a touchy subjects for many Americans; the BLM's complex policies on mustang round-up and maintenance illustrates the point.
The West is built on many cooperative and collectivist agreements; Utah's booming economy, boosted by Mormon politics, illustrates how these work.
These days, most Westerners aren't born. We're made.
Although dam removals are occurring across the West, they're the exception more than the rule. And some dwindling species, like pallid sturgeon, may not be able to wait for our rivers to return to normal.
In the rural West, how deep a candidate's family roots go -- how long they've lived in the area -- sometimes matters more than his or her experience or political opinions.
When wandering newcomers and deep-rooted old-timers collide in the West, it gets difficult, especially in a place as culturally complex as northern New Mexico.
In this new, human-dominated epoch, the "Anthropocene," every attempt at restoration is likely to be filled with tough and risky choices.
The outdoor-gear industry makes its living off a landscape it claims to love. But when it comes to spending cash for conservation, it hasn’t done much.
We're all tourists in someone else's town, all of us just wandering through the world, so why not do a special issue on travel in the West?
Crimes committed by a fundamentalist sect on the Utah-Arizona border needs to be seriously investigated by both the Mormon Church and those states.
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COPPER STAIN: ASARCO'S LEGACY IN EL PASO Tales from scores of ex-employees unearth the human costs of an economy that runs on copper.
