In our special issue Frontera Incognita, High Country News revisits the Borderlands. The Borderlands, as our collection of stories show, means different things to different people. We explore the many relationships people have with our country’s perimeter.
High Country News founder, Tom Bell, passes
A Wyoming rancher and self-proclaimed maverick, Bell led a lifelong conservation effort.
The afterlife of cotton
Through the present and past of a border town, on the trail of literary legend José Revueltas.
The disappearing art of Southwestern cemeteries
A review of En Recuerdo de, a look at the afterlife of Mexican cemeteries in the West.
A guide to borderland education programs
A number of universities, especially those in border states, have programs that examine the influx of people who bring change to their new homes.
A mother’s flight into the desert
An excerpt from Black Dove: Mamá, Mi’jo, and Me.
Border triptych
Three poems for the Borderlands.
Disappearing pika and coal’s latest hurdle
HCN.org news in brief.
How humans nurtured the hated mosquito
Alexander von Humboldt and the spread of Aedes aegypti.
Humans and ecosystems mix it up on the U.S. – Mexico Borderlands
Everything moves across lines here. Nothing’s straightforward.
In search of a borderless West
Earlier this month, Donald Trump, the Republican nominee for U.S. president, gave a speech in Phoenix, in which he detailed his immigration policy. He repeated his frequent pledge to build a wall, the construction of which would start on “day one,” he said. “We will begin working on an impenetrable physical wall on the Southern…
On borders, north and south
How the natural world challenges human notions of division.
Opening day at the Crow Fair, an accidental Wild West show and a moose miracle
Mishaps and mayhem from around the region.
Sometimes a place
A family’s journey from the San Luis Valley to Denver, in illustrations.
The secrets of Los Gatos Canyon
Along the border, identity and memory.