A road trip across Wyoming moves the writer to muse about
the glories of living in an "unedited" version of the
West.
Writers on the Range
Writers on the Range was a project of High Country News from 1998 to 2018. It is now an independent nonprofit organization.
Usually conservative residents of Noxon, Mont., react
angrily to ASARCO's plan to build a huge mine in the Cabinet
Mountains - and wish the federal government would intervene and
stop it.
Two Cove-Mallard protest veterans offer a light-hearted
list of dos and don'ts for those facing arrest for civil
disobedience.
The "war of words," started by wise users and taken up by
environmentalists, needs to end in a truce and a turn to
non-violent language.
New Mexico environmentalists need to quit shouting and
squabbling and try to understand rural Hispanic needs and
values.
The writer describes how his New Yorker father fell in
love with, and eventually moved to, Santa Fe.
Outdoor Life field editor says that as long as human
beings are on earth they will hunt, anti-hunters to the
contrary.
A historian looks at Hanford's history, its workers and
their social dynamics at the time of its birth in World War II, and
ponders the confused legacy it leaves behind.
The Old West and the New West need to work together in
trying to preserve the far-from-pristine West that still
remains.
In losing the grand old ponderosa pine forests, we risk
the loss of mystery and grace.
A writer traces his disenchantment with, and eventual
renunciation of, hunting.
A writer muses on the contradictions inherent in his love
for the hunt but dislike of killing animals.
An excerpt from Jim Posewitz's "Beyond Fair Chase" tells
of a bowhunter's obsession with finding his kill.
A jury made mostly of hunters finds Chad McKittrick guilty
in the death of a reintroduced wolf, and castigates his lack of
"hunting ethics."
The Forest Service should follow Gifford Pinchot's example
and meet the new and violent controversies directly.
The Colorado State Land Board raises opposition from
ranchers, residents and environmentalists with its plan to sell
part of the Yampa Valley's Emerald Mountain for
development.
A rereading of Sinclair Lewis' "Babbitt" helps the writer
understand the anti-intellectual neo-Babbitts in today's Republic
Congress.
The big national environmental organizations, chastised by
recent events in Washington, begin to look back to the grass roots
for renewal.
A small group of environmentalists stage a death march for
endangered salmon in the small town of Salmon, Idaho.
An environmentalist explains his decision to abandon
politics and national groups and work strictly at the grassroots
level using the "collaborative process."
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