Researchers fear attacks from a range of powerful foes in the coming years – and for many, it has long been happening.
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When crossing the border is your daily commute
A day in the life of agricultural laborers whose work and lives straddle the Arizona-Mexican border.
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West Obsessed: Nature on the brain
Journalist and author Florence Williams discusses her new book, The Nature Fix.
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What the new EPA chief’s emails mean for the West
The court-released exchanges show Scott Pruitt’s cozy relationship with oil and gas could impact energy development.
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Western cities try to cut light pollution
Hitting the dimmer switch on city light helps animals and skygazers, too.
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Week in review: February 24
The staff of High Country News shares what they’re reading on state land sales, private prisons and CPAC.
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The many questions of Gold Butte
Familiar questions around roads, heritage and water rights resurface as Nevadans make sense of their new monument.
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West Obsessed: How pain pills spread in one Colorado town
The staff of High Country News discuss the cycle of addiction in the rural West.
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Inside the fight to undo BLM’s planning overhaul
In latest skirmish of land wars, Congress supports mining and ranching.
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An ethicist’s guide to hunting
In an interview, writer and hunter David Petersen says the practice makes us human.
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Sportsmen take aim at law enforcement bill
They see HR 622 as a complex and serious threat to public lands.
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Why conservatives should fight for Obama’s methane rules
Waste is not a conservative ideal.
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Ask a Scientist: Why NOAA matters for the West
CIRES head Waleed Abdalati answers our questions.
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Obama rules repeal push meets resistance and an overbooked schedule
Groups hope the delay gives them time to save the BLM’s methane rule.
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How one artist captured the changing climate in watercolor
Artist and scientist Jill Pelto’s riveting paintings use data to show climate change’s impacts.
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Happy birthday, Wallace Stegner
Reflections on a seminal Western author, years after his death.
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Why desalination alone won’t water the West
Regardless of supposed Trump backing, the process is complicated and expensive.
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Why keep the Salton Sea?
A history of the manmade — and now essential — inland ocean.