The West’s small towns have always been subject to
boom-and-bust economies, and even when the coal mines close and the
factories move overseas, new economic engines will likely take
their place
Editor's Note
Our future is worth fighting for.
Adaptation is key to a coastal future.
The dangerously hot future is here. How will we respond?
Environmental issues in the West are the region’s
"big story" – and it’s high time the region’s big
newspapers covered them adequately
It’s high time for the environmental movement to
join with farmworker activists in their fight for fair treatment
and protection from dangerous pesticides
Montana’s Flathead Valley shows how
environmentalists can work together – even work with their
opponents – to get things done in a climate hostile to
conservation
Those who thought the West’s nuclear role would wind
down with the end of the Cold War are facing a brand-new nuclear
age, one that is being created behind closed government doors where
few questions are asked
Americans need to acknowledge all the costs of oil and gas
drilling before we blithely flip the light switch or start the
car
Water development in the West has always been about
economic growth and enrichment, and current proposals for water
use, whether from the public or private sector, need to be judged
on their own merits
Probably no other Western state is as deeply fractured as
New Mexico, with its complex mix of Indian, Hispanic and Anglo
cultures and their long, turbulent history
It’s time for the people of southern Utah to accept
that the West has changed, and that Grand Staircase-Escalante
National Monument is here to stay
The memory of an encounter with a grizzly in Glacier
National Park leads to thoughts about the place large predators
have in the West
Wilderness has never been as simple a thing as it seems in
our dreams, and in these days it’s up to all of us to work
together – and often compromise – on
legislation.
Six months have passed since High Country News changed direction and became an environmental newspaper, supported by subscriptions of only $10 per year. Since you, our readers, are in effect our stockholders, I want to report to you.
Americans are great people. But I think the readers of High Country News are the greatest. The response to our letter regarding the future of the paper has been heartwarming. I really can't find the right words to express our feelings but I can say very simply -- we won't let the paper die!
The people of Wyoming are being duped by the mining industry and the state's highest political leaders. While we are being assured that millions of acres of our land surface are adequately protected, disaster may be waiting in the wings.
Wyoming's unspoiled countryside is in jeopardy. The vast coal and uranium deposits which lie beneath our prairies and deserts are a treasure house of energy.
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