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Jodi Peterson
Posted inJanuary 12, 2015: What Are We Thinking?
Farewell to Theo Colborn
Marking the passing of an influential environmental scientist
Posted inArticles
For public lands, massive protections in defense bill
But not all conservation groups think the gains are worth the losses.
Posted inDecember 8, 2014: The Great Salmon Compromise
Come to the HCN holiday open house!
Our annual open house is December 11th; cavers and consultants visit the office.
Posted inArticles
Plans for the Village at Wolf Creek move forward
Controversial southern Colorado resort takes another step toward construction.
Posted inNovember 24, 2014: Transportation Transformation
Flocks of visitors
Readers visit from Albuquerque, Santa Fe, North Carolina and more.
Posted inNovember 10, 2014: Fallout
New HCN board members, Part II
Welcome three new members, and farewell to naturalist Ann Zwinger.
Posted inOctober 27, 2014: Defuse the West
Goodbye Ray Ring — sort of
A long-time senior editor goes part-time, and HCN gains new board members.
Posted inOctober 13, 2014: Charles Bowden's Fury
An urban experience
Fall board meeting, a new employee, and another science writing award for HCN.
Posted inArticles
After 11 years, Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument reopens
Increased border security means that all 517 square miles are again open to the public.
Posted inSeptember 15, 2014: Books & Essays
The art of adaptation
“Life finds a way,” Michael Crichton wrote in his 1990 novel Jurassic Park. He was imagining how resurrected dinosaurs, supposedly sterile, could start breeding on their own, but the quote expresses a fundamental truth. As the planet’s climate changes, life changes with it. The rapidly warming Arctic has forced polar bears, which normally hunt seals, […]
Posted inSeptember 15, 2014: Books & Essays
Fall is for reading
HCN editors’ pick of the best new fiction and non-fiction.
Posted inSeptember 15, 2014: Books & Essays
See you in October!
It’s time to slip out of the HCN office while the hiking’s still good. We publish 22 issues a year, so we’re skipping an issue in mid-September. Look for us in your mailbox around Oct. 13; meanwhile, visit hcn.org for fresh news, analysis and commentary. Charles Bowden passes We’re sad to note that author […]
Posted inArticles
Congress ignores the West’s firefighting needs
Congress still hasn’t figured out how to pay for wildfires. Choked by partisan bickering and entrenched refusals to compromise, the 113th Congress has passed the fewest pieces of legislation of any Congress in the past two decades — just 108 significant laws, compared to nearly 170 per session from 1995 to 2010. One of the […]
Posted inSeptember 1, 2014: Lost in the Woods
From paradise to Paonia
Here in HCN’s tiny hometown, Paonia, Colorado, we remain amazed by — and grateful for — all the folks who drop by just to say hello, since Paonia is on the way to pretty much nowhere else. Ulli Lange, 80, and family and friends, visited right before July Fourth and Paonia’s Cherry Days celebration. Ulli, […]
Posted inSeptember 1, 2014: Lost in the Woods
Smoke and mirrors
Congress can’t seem to solve a big problem: how to pay for battling wildfires.
Posted inArticles
Forest Service’s mission goes up in flames
New report shows long-term firefighting costs eroding most other work.
Posted inAugust 18, 2014: Alaska's Uncertain Food Future
An award, and a whole lot of visitors
“The Tree Coroners,” by HCN contributing editor Cally Carswell, just received one of the Society of Environmental Journalists’ 2013-2014 Awards for Reporting on the Environment. The Dec. 9, 2013, feature story took second place in the category “Kevin Carmody Award for Outstanding In-depth Reporting, Small Market.” Congrats, Cally! VisitorsSo many readers pass through Paonia, Colorado, […]