Environmentalists in the Pacific Northwest may lead the way.
Krista Langlois
Krista Langlois is a former High Country News fellow and correspondent, and longtime freelance journalist. From her home on British Columbia’s Sunshine Coast, she writes and edits stories about biodiversity and the more-than-human world for bioGraphic magazine. Find her on Bluesky @cestmoiLanglois.
Posted inNovember 24, 2014: Transportation Transformation
Solace at the end of Homer Spit
When I quit my job and joined a pilgrimage of heartbroken dreamers staggering toward Alaska.
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Virus implicated in starfish wasting disease
A team of scientists have figured out what’s killing West Coast sea stars, but bigger mysteries remain.
Posted inNovember 10, 2014: Fallout
A young mule stringer helps keep a dying profession alive
Mules are still needed to carry supplies in wild, roadless mountains.
Posted inNovember 10, 2014: Fallout
USGS launches a billion-dollar initiative to map the West in 3D
LIDAR is about to become more widespread — helping agriculture, pilots and homeowners.
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Dispatch from a young farmers confab
How better dirt can conserve water, save farming and help feed the West.
Posted inOctober 27, 2014: Defuse the West
House of Misrepresentatives
What would happen to the West’s environment if the House of Representatives had its way.
Posted inOctober 27, 2014: Defuse the West
The Latest: Sustainable seafood advocates vs. wilderness purists
After years of court battles, an oyster company in a national park agrees to shut down.
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In campaign ads, emotion trumps fact and guns buy votes
What I learned from watching political ads on YouTube two weeks before the midterms.
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How to pass a wilderness bill in 2014
Lessons from southwest Colorado’s Hermosa Creek.
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The walrus detectives
What’s behind the Alaska walrus haul-outs? Everyone’s calling climate change, but the truth is, we don’t know.
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More pesticides are permeating urban streams
But rural rivers are getting cleaner, a new study says.
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Female firefighters threaten to sue the Forest Service — again
Four decades after the first allegations of discrimination, some say little has changed.
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Manmade quakes shake the Southwest
Tremors in Colorado and New Mexico linked to coalbed methane extraction.
Posted inSeptember 15, 2014: Books & Essays
Best little bookstores of the West
Plus, readers’ favorite books about the region.
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Best little bookstores of the West
Plus, readers’ favorite books about the region.
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Sweeping new rule for Alaska’s predator control
Federal versus state wildlife politics get even hotter.
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Former governor Tony Knowles on Alaska’s predator policies
During his 1994 to 2002 tenure, former Democratic Alaska governor Tony Knowles implemented non-lethal — albeit expensive — ways to control predator populations in Alaska: Instead of shooting wolves from helicopters, for example, he relocated and sterilized packs that preyed on the caribou herds Alaskans relied on for food. Since he’s left office, though, the […]